on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part III. 1338 
shall now describe a plant which may perhaps be the Tsjerou 
Meer Alou, and of which I have given specimens to the library 
` at the India House (Cat. 2416). 
Ficus undulata. 
Tsjerou Meer Alou. Hort. Mal. iii. 7 1. t. 56? 
Rakhalpani Bengalensium. | 
Habitat in Camrupz orientalis locis montosis. 
Arbor magna, lactescens, ramulis nudis fuscis. Folia alterna, 
oblonga, basi acutiuscula, apice acuminata, integerrima, 
rigida, glabra, undulata, subtrinervia, subcostata, venis 
minute reticulata. —Petiolus semiteres, brevissimus, fuscus. - 
Stipule caducæ. 
Racemus axillaris, rigidus, simplex longitudine petioli apice 
gemmiferus, fructu foliis e gemma prodeuntibus laterali. 
Pedicelli gemini, uniflori, ancipites, glabri, receptaculo flo- 
rum longiores. Bracteæ ad basin pedicellorum minute, tri- 
phylle. Flos obovatus, glaber magnitudine Pisi majoris. 
I did not see this tree sending roots from its branches; but 
even the Per Alou does not do this when planted in confined 
situations and excluded from a free circulation of air. It remains, 
however, yet to be determined whether the T'sjerou Meer Alou is 
. my Ficus undulata or the Ficus pyrifolia of M. Lamarck, if it be 
either. | 
TE Azou, p. 73. t. 57. | 
Commeline supposed this to be the Ficus Indica of Clusius, 
and the Ficus Indica foliis Mali Cotonei similibus, fructu ficubus 
simili of Caspar Bauhin, that is, the Ficus Indica of the Greeks 
and Romans; and he supposed that it might be the same with 
an American plant described by Rochefort. In my Commentary 
on the Peralu (Linn. Trans. xiii. 488.) 1 have mentioned that 
these 
