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4. FICUS [Tourn.] L. Shrubs, trees, or vines, with smoothish bark. 
Leaves mainly persistent: blades entire, toothed, or lobed. Flowers in hollow 
receptacles, the staminate with a calyx of 2-6 sepals, or these obsolete, and 
1-2 or rarely 3 stamens. Pistillate flowers numerous: style rather long: ies 
clavate, peltate, or 2-lobed. Fruit depressed- globular or elongate, the Ll 
ineluded.—A bout 600 species, natives of tropical and warm regions.—Fia 
Leaf-blades entire, smooth and Vixbronss fruit glabrous, 1-2.5 cm ne I. AUREAE. 
a lobed, very scabrous- -pubescent : fruit pubescent, 4-8 cm 
lon II. CARICAE. 
I. AUREAE 
Fruit globose, spheroidal or obovoid: lateral veins of the leaf- 
blades few and separated. 
Fruits Ee: Jeaf- hades usually narrow-based. . F. aurea. 
Fruits peduncled : leaf-blades usually broad-based. 2. F. brevifolia. 
. Fruit oblong: lateral veins of the leaf-blades very numerous and 
close together 3. F. elastica. 
II. CARICAE 
Shrub with many stems or a small tree, with coarsely pubescent : 
foliage. 4. F. Carica. 
1. F. aurea Nutt. Shrub, often starting as a vine, or tree becoming 20 m. 
tall with glabrous twigs: leaf- on ii ie or oval, 3-10 cm. long, acute 
hort-acuminate at the bas fru 
spheroidal or obovoid, about a i i 
eter. — (GOLDEN-FIG. ST 
Hammocks, S pen. and Florida Keys 
— eedling plants are epiphytic 
They emit aerial roots which coalesce and 
ally ‘‘strangle’’ the t. roo 
and branches rm a terrestria 
M : 
ded tree which may in turn ‘‘strangle’’ 
self. 
F. brevifolia Nutt.  Shrub, or tree 
1 
sometime m. tall, with glabrous twigs: 
eaf-blades ovate-oval or rarely obovate, 
3— long, mainly rounded or dip 
at the base: fruit subglobose, 2-2.5 e 
diameter. [F. po i ie d E Wan. 
G. WILD- BANYAN.) — Ham and 
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EA 
rarely in pin En ‘Brerglade, Reps 8, a 
Fla. and Florida Keys.—(W. I.)— oo seedlings of this fig are also epiphytic. 
The aerial roots may coalesce to for stout trunk, usually without strang- 
ling the host. If the roots fail to aoc el may spread out forming a 
structure like the banyan. 
3. F. seer on Tree with glabrous twigs: leaf-blades elliptic, often 
broadly s em. long, ieee blunt- or acute- -tipped, glabro eee ae 
short- f UR pes ‘oblon ng, 1-1.5 em. long, greenish-yellow, smooth, sessile.— 
(RUBBER-PLANT. or a E )- Pinelands and roadsi sides, S pen. 
Fla. Nat. of trop. Asi 
4. F. Carica L. Shrub, or tree 2-5 m. tall, with Dd Pu bci i 
zi ST. lobed ;- “petioles pubescent: fruit obov 
(Commo ON-FIG.)—Fie lds, roadsides, and eult. gr en eae Pm and adj. 
provinees, Fla. to Tex., ' Tenn., an nd ‘Va. Nat. of Asi 
