« its wondrous branch 
Bent down to earth, new stems can launch, 
Which upward spring to bend again 
And form a forest o’er the plain.” 
No where, perhaps, do the species of Ficus so much 
abound as in the tropical parts of Asia, and Dr. Watticu 
alone enumerates in his Catalogue no less than one hundred 
and five species. Among them is the present one, but 
which nevertheless does not appear to be any where describ- 
ed. It exists among a set of drawings (of which I possess 
copies) of Indian Figs, made under the direction of the 
late Dr. (Bucnanan) Hamitron, and with the name here 
adopted, though I confess that the appellation under which 
it has been long cultivated in the Glasgow Botanic Garden 
(F’. cerasiformis) is more appropriate. It is a handsome 
species, remarkable for its solitary, pedunculated, pendent, 
and tempting-looking fruit. It was, we believe, introduced 
by Dr. Waxticu from Silhet, and the specimen here figured 
was drawn in 1833. 
Stem, in our plant, five or six feet high, the branches 
as well as petioles every where clothed with a dense, rusty- 
coloured tomentum. eaves four or five inches to a span 
long, somewhat coriaceous, elliptical; petiolated, veiny, 
glabrous above and full green, beneath downy, with the 
veins prominent. Receptacles solitary, axillary, globose, 
pendent, larger than a bullace-plum, of a deep and bright 
orange colour, somewhat mealy and tuberculated on the 
surface, and terminating a stalk longer than itself. Flowers, 
in the receptacles that were examined, apparently all female. 
Perianth three-cleft or three-partite, with the segments 
lanceolate and acuminated. Germen pedicellate, oval, ob- 
lique, with a lateral style. 
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iy aes Receptacle ; nat, size. 2. Female Flower. 3. The same laid 
open ; magnified. 
