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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
perianth tubular, short, covering only the pedicel of the rhom- 
boid minutely tuberculate achene. Style much longer than 
the achene ; stigma cylindric or clavate. 
Uses: — It possesses, according to the experience of Mr. 
Moodeen Sheriff, all the medicinal properties of the preceding 
F. bispida. It is desirable to know more of the properties of 
these trees. (Ph. Ind.) 
1187 . F. palmata, Forsk., h.f.b.i., v . 530 . 
Syn. : — F. carica, Linn. Roxb. 636. 
Vern. : — Gular, khabara, anjiri, beru, bedu (II.); Phagwara, 
kdk, kok, phedu, inzar, phag, kirmi, phagoru, fagu, phog, 
khabare, phegra, thapur, jamir, dhurii, dhudi, daholia (Pb.) ; 
Phagwara (Pushtu) ; Anjir, inzar (Afg.) ; Kembri (Raj.) ; 
Dhoura (C. P.) ; Pepri (Guz.) ; Fagwara, Thapur (Plains of 
Upper India). 
Habitat N.-W. India, from the. Indus eastwards to Oudh, 
ascending to 3,000ft. in the Himalaya, Mt. Aboo. 
A bush or moderate-sized tree. Shoots tomentose, pubescent 
or glabrous. Bark grey, smooth. Wood white, close and even- 
grained, moderately hard, with wavy crescentic bands of soft 
tissue, alternating with bands of equal width of firmer tissue. 
Pores very small and moderate-sized, often oval and sub-divided. 
Medullary rays fine and moderately broad ; unequally distri- 
buted. (Gamble.) Branches solid, with a large pith ; branchlets, 
petioles and underside of leaf soft-tomentose. Leaves rough 
above, broad-ovate, dentate, at times deeply lobed ; base 
truncate or cordate, sometimes abruptly narrowed to the 
petiole ; blade 3-5, petiole l-2in. long ; 3-5 basal nerves ; secon- 
dary nerves on midrib 3-6 pairs. Stipules in pairs, ovate, acute, 
pubescent, deciduous. Receptacles axillary, more or less pear- 
shaped, umbonate, f-lin. diam. ; usually pubescent, yellow 
when ripe, edible ; basal bracts deciduous 3, acute, at the base 
of the stalk which often lengthen out to |in. as the fruit 
ripens, peduncle £-lin. Perianth ciliate with long hairs. 
Male flowers on hairy pedicels, sepals 4-5, lanceolate, hairy. Gall 
flowers, sessile or pedicelled ; perianth deeply 5-cleft ; ovary 
