Ficus subincisa Buch. ex J. E. Smith

Reported from C-6 & C-8 Mirpur and Jammu by Stewart, l.c. It seems to be rare in our area or undercollected.

Shrubs or small trees, 1-3 m tall. Bark dark grayish, smooth. Branchlets reddish brown, slender, narrowly winged. Stipules caducous, linear to lanceolate, ca. 5 cm. Petiole 4-6 mm; leaf blade obovate-oblong to elliptic-lanceolate, 4-12 × 2-5 cm, papery, with cystoliths, base cuneate, margin apically undulate or with a few blunt teeth, apex long-caudate; basal lateral veins short, secondary veins 5-7 on each side of midvein, oblique to near margin then looped. Figs axillary on normal leafy shoots, solitary, reddish orange when mature, ellipsoid to ± globose, 0.6-2.5 cm in diam., smooth or tuberculate and lenticellate, apical pore navel-like, ± convex; peduncle 2-10 mm; involucral bracts triangular. Male flowers: near apical pore, pedicellate; calyx lobes 4; stamen 1 or 2(-3). Gall flowers: ovary smooth; style lateral; stigma shortly funnelform. Female flowers: style lateral, long; stigma 2-branched. Achenes lenslike, smooth. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Sep-Oct.

An erect shrub or small tree, 34 m tall with scabrid young shoots and grey bark. Leaves with (3-) 5-8 (-10) mm long petiole; lamina membranous, oblong to elliptic-lanceolate, 7-15 (-17) cm long, 3-5.5 (-7) cm broad, 3-costate at the ± cuneate-acute base, margins entire or sinuate-dentate in the upper half, apex abruptly cuspidate, glabrous, scabrous on both sides, lateral nerves 4-6 pairs, bulging and rough punctate beneath, intercostals present; stipules lanceolate, 8-10 mm long, caducous. Hypanthodia shortly pedunculate, pedunculate, peduncle 2.5-4 long, solitary axilhry, rarely paired, dimorphic, ovoid-obovoid or globose, subtended by 3 inconspicous basal bracts, apical orifice covered by large bracts. Male flowers: pedicellate, ostiolar and scattered among gall flowers; sepals bracts. red, 5-6-partite; stamen solitary in ostiolar flowers, free and 2(-3) in dispersed ones, anthers broadly ovoid. Female flowers: pedicellate, sepals dark red, 5-toothed; ovary with a subterminal elongate, slender style, stigma often bifid. Figs c. 12 mm in diem., warty, yellow.

W Guangxi, Yunnan [Bhutan, NE India, Kashmir, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Sikkim, Thailand, Vietnam].

Distribution: Pakistan (Kashmir) eastwards to Nepal, N. Burma, China (Yunnan) and ludo-China:

Fl. & Fr. Per.: April-May; October-November.

Dense and sparse forests, along streams, valleys; 400-2400 m.

Ficus caudata Wallich ex Miquel (1848), not Stokes (1812); F. clavata Wallich ex Miquel; F. subincisa var. paucidentata (Miquel) Corner; F. trachycarpa Miquel var. paucidentata Miquel.