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Ficus ACUMINATA. SHARP-POINTED Fic. 
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Class and Order. , 
Poryeamia Dicaecra. 
( Nat. Ord.— Urricez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Receptaculum carnosum, clausum, apice pervium, andro- 
Synum. &osculi pedicellati: Masc. 3-partiti. Stam. 3— 
Fam. 4—8-partiti. Stylus lateralis bifidus. Semina in 
pulpa receptaculi nidulantia. Spreng. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Ficus* acuminata; ramis petiolisque ferrugineo-tomentosis, 
foliis lato-ellipticis obovatisque longe tenuiter acumi- 
natis supra glabris subtus pubescentibus nervis promi- 
nentibus, receptaculis solitariis globosis pendulis fari- 
nosis longe pedunculatis. 
Ficus acuminata. Ham. Herb.—Wall. in Cat. of Pl. of 
E. I. C. n. 4478. 
The Genus of the Figs is one of the most extensive among 
plants, chiefly inhabiting the tropics, many of the species 
constituting trees of gigantic height, no less remarkable 
in their fructification than in the sheathing stipules and 
milky juice, and bearing a great affinity with the Bread- 
Fruit (Arrocarrus). Ficus elastica, and other species pro- 
bably, yields Caoutchouc: a few afford esculent fruits, 
chiet y the common cultivated Fig, Ficus Carica and the 
Sycamore of the Scriptures, F. Sycamorus, whilst the F. 
religiosa, Banyan Tree, or Sacred Fig of the Hindoos, is 
one of the many astonishing features of Indian vegetation ms 
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- * This Tuts traces to the Celtic Figuezen, a Fig. 
