Descr. A most elegant éree, about forty feet high, with gracefully 
waving, subpendulous, tressy masses of dark rich evergreen, shining fo- 
liage. Zrunk rather slender, scarcely above a foot in diameter, soon 
dividing into numerous spreading, or even declining branches, covered 
(like the trunk) with a light brown, smooth, even bark, spotted with 
minute white lenticelle. Branches slender, bearing crowded, conglome- 
rate masses of leaves towards their ends, on numerous, short, paniculated 
subdivisions or branchlets ; thus forming dense tress-like tufts of foliage, 
subpendulous by their own weight, over the whole outer circumference 
of the tree; while the inside is an open sort of shady vault of naked 
branches. Young shoots compressed or ‘angular, sparingly milky. Sé- 
pules narrow, acuminate, soon turning reddish-brown, deciduous at the 
expansion of the leaf; before this forming a short, slender-pointed, 
horn-like termination to each branchlet. Petioles pale green, flattened, 
slightly channelled above, a quarter or one-third of an inch long. Leaves 
very smooth and shining, dark green above, pale beneath, coriaceous 
and thickish, entire, with a sharp, thin, pellucid edge; faintly three- 
nerved at the base, but both nerves and veins scarcely visible; oblong 
or elliptic, attenuated slightly at both ends; at the apex often somewhat 
eg so, but not acute; from one and a half to two, or even three 
inches long, and from an inch to an inch and a half wide: the whole © 
leaf, when held up to the light, is found to be very closely and minutely 
but faintly, punctate. Receptacles (Figs ) obovato-globose, small, the 
size of large peas, or about one-third of. an inch in diameter; produced 
singly, or more generally in pairs, from the axils of the petioles on the 
terminal branchlets ; each sessile, and clasped at the base by three short, 
fleshy, ovate, rounded, close-pressed bracteas, of a pale yellowish waxy © 
or brownish colour, and very thick and fleshy at their’ base, with the 
edges thin and entire. Figs pale greenish, inclining to white in the 
spring ; of a beautiful rosy wax-colour in the summer and autumn, when 
fully ripe; but even then hard, quite dry, and tasteless; their inside 
chaffy, white or pale yellowish ; their flesh, a mere leathery, milky skin. 
They remain always closed, with a dark brown or purple mark at the 
top: their surface is even, but sprinkled with obsolete white or pale 
warts. When in pairs, the figs are placed back to back, divaricating 
one on each side the branch or petiole. They first appear in January 
or February, and continue till August or September. Female florets 
pedicella: growing amongst long, narrow, acuminate, chaffy, white 
Fig. 1. Branch with ripe Figs. 2. A pair of Figs, 3. Single Fig. 4. A 
Psenaks Floret, with one of the chaffy Scales at the base of the Rteteptacie. 
5 and 6. Male Florets, all but f. 1, more or less magnified. 
