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margins toothed, tip usually acute, upper surface rough, lower 
pubescent ; stalk 1-2 in. Figs axillary, stalked, solitary, globose 
or pear-shaped, 4-1 in. diam., narrowed to the base, usually 
tomentose, purple when ripe. (Fig. 148.) 
Simla, the Glen ; figs edible, ripen June-October. — Central and N.W. India, 
ascending to 5000 ft., often cultivated. — Westward to Egypt and Abyssinia. 
The Indian representative of the common European edible fig, F. Carica. 
9. Ficus nemoralis, Wall. ; FI. Br. Ind. v. 534. A glabrous 
shrub or small tree. Leaves lanceolate or ovate -lanceolate, 4-6 
in., base wedge-shaped, often much narrowed, margins entire, tip 
narrowed into a long point ; stalk |-1 in. Figs axillary, sessile or 
shortly stalked, often crowded, globose, about J in. diam., quite 
glabrous. 
Simla, below Annandale, Shah ; figs ripen August, September. — Temperate 
Himalaya, 1500-7000 ft. — Assam. 
10. Ficus Roxburghii, Wall. ; FI. Br. Ind. v. 534. A spreading 
tree ; young branches pubescent. Leaves stalked, broadly ovate, 
6-12x5-9 in., sometimes even larger, deeply cordate, entire or 
toothed, usually shortly pointed. Figs stalked, clustered on short, 
thick, leafless branches issuing from the boughs or stem, some- 
