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528 3 MONOECIA MONANDRIA, Ficus. 
Soccus lanosus, granosus and meres Rumph, Amb, i. 
t, 32, 33, and 34, 
A native of the Moluccas, and South Sea Islands, It has 
been long introduced inte Bengal, but the winters there are 
much two cold for it, and during that period it looses near- 
ly as much as it gains the rest of the year. 
FICUS. Schreb. gen. N. 1613. 
Male and female corollets on the interior surface of the 
common receptacle, Proper perianth various in both, Co- 
rollets none. Seeds solitary. 
Note. I have examined minutely the florets of nearly the 
whole of the following species, and found only two instances 
in which they were not androgynous; and ie far the great- 
er part monandrous, 
SECT. I. Fruit solitary or paired. 
1. F. Carica, Willd. iv. 1131. 
Leaves angular, lobate, or palmate, three-nerved, scabrous 
above, downy underneath, Fruit solitary, turbinate, smooth. 
Pers, Unjeer. 
Arab. Seen. 
Beng. Doomar or Doombur. 
Found in a cultivated state, in India, Persia, and Arabia. 
The leaf is much less divided than in the trees from England, 
or than I ever observed them in Europe. 
eh? 
2. F. hirsuta, Roxb. 
Arboreous. Tender parts hirsute. Leaves round-cordate, 
from three to five-lobed, serrate-dentate; lobes acute. Fruit 
axillary, paired, sessile, oval, shaggy. 
Dungra, the vernacular name in the Silhet district, where 
the tree is indigenous, and produces fruit during the dey 
season. 
SSIES 
