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Cluster Fig Root is the dried root of Ficus racemosa L. (F. glomerata Roxb.) (Family Moraceae), Herbarium Specimen Number: DMSC 5221, Crude Drug Number: DMSc 1077.
Constituents Cluster Fig Root contains triterpenoids such as lupeol, lupeol acetate, α-amyrin acetate, and β-amyrin acetate. It also contains sterols, tannins, etc.
Description of the plant (Figs. 1a, 1b) Evergreen or deciduous tree up to 30 m tall, monoecious; becoming buttressed, often with irregular crown; bark whitish to pinkish brown, smooth when young, cracked when aged, exudating ivory or pinkish latex; young twig solid, finely pubescent. Leaves simple, spirally arranged, elliptic, obovate, oblong, lanceolate or subovate, 5 to 20 cm long, 3 to 10(–12) cm wide, apex acute or acuminate, base obtuse, oblique or cuneate, margin entire, sometimes irregularly dentate or sublobate, coriaceous, sparsely pilose or glabrescent on both surfaces, lateral nerves 4 to 9 pairs, conspicuous on the lower surface; petiole 1.5 to 7.5 cm long, grooved, brownish, minutely hairy; stipule triangular ovate, 1 to 1.5 cm long, about 5 mm wide, brownish, subpersistent or caducous. Inflorescence and fruit known as syconium or fig, cauliflorous or borne
on leafless branches, up to 25 cm long; peduncle 0.3 to 1.2 cm long; basal bracts 3, 1 to 2 mm long, persistent; receptacle subpyriform to globose, puberulous; without lateral bracts. Flowers 3 types: male flower sessile, ostiolar bracts many, tepals 3- to 4-connated, lobes dentate-lacerate, reddish, stamens 1 to 3, pistillode present; female flower sessile or subsessile, tepal as in male, ovary with reddish dots, substipitate, style lateral, glabrous,
stigma simple; gall flower dispersed among females, pedicellate, ovary dark red and glabrous. Fruit pyriform or depressed subglobose, 3 to 5 cm in diameter when fresh, 1.5 to 3 cm in diameter when dry, green when young, pinkish to purple-red or orange at maturity, usually streaked, puberulous, apex flat to slightly concave, ostiole about 3 mm in diameter, prominent; internal hairs absent.
Description Odourless; taste, bland.
Macroscopical (Fig. 1a) Obliquely, longitudinally or transversely sliced roots, varied in shape and size; bark 1 to 3 mm thick, dark brown, with scattered irregular scars; wood light brown, some with darker rings in the centre.
Microscopical (Figs. 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d) Transverse section of the root shows periderm, cortex, phloem, vascular cambium, and xylem. Periderm, several layers of brown thin-walled rectangular cork cells. Cortex, parenchyma, some containing starch grains, prismatic crystals of calcium oxalate or brown substance, and sclereids. Phloem, small parenchyma, some containing starch grains, prismatic crystals of calcium oxalate or brown substance, phloem fibres, and phloem ray cells. Vascular cambium, several layers of small thin-walled rectangular cells. Xylem, scalariform and bordered-pitted vessels (some containing brown substance), xylem fibres, thick-walled porous xylem parenchyma, and xylem ray cells.