530 MONOECIA MONANDRIA. Ficus. 
nulate, villous; from six to ten inches long. Petioles round, 
downy, two or three inches long. Fruit axillary, long-pe- 
duncled, solitary, erect, of a triangular-turbinate shape, with 
a round, closed, prominent umbilicus; wrinkled on the out- 
side, and somewhat villous; when ripe yellowish, and about 
the size of a gooseberry. Calyx of the fruit three-leaved, 
that of the corollets five-leaved, as in the genus. 
Noie. The plant has so much the general habit of F. Ca- 
rica, that I long considered it an accidental variety, but as 
the tree is less like it when old, and the shape of the leaves 
continues constant, [am now induced to consider it a distinet 
species. The fruit is tough, and very unpalatable, in short 
not eatable. 
5. F. virgata. R. 
Shrubby. Leaves broad-cordate, obtuse, serrate-crenate, 
three-nerved, downy. Fruit axillary and lateral, = 
solitary, oval, smooth, 
A native of Rohilcund ; flowering time the dry season. 
Trunk tolerably erect. Branches few, weak, ascending, 
covered with smooth, brownish, ash-coloured bark ; the whole 
height of plants six years old, from four to eight feet. Leaves 
alternate, petioled, broad-cordate, three-nerved, obtuse, ser- 
rate-crenate, very downy underneath; from three to four 
inches long, by three broad. Petioles round, downy, about 
two inches long. Stipules semi-lanceolate, caducous. Fruit 
, solitary, ovate, of the size of a pea, yellow, pretty 
poss supported on round, downy peduncles, rather less 
than an inch long. Calyx, common, three-leaved, and re- 
moved a little from the fruit, by a short pedicel. Mae. 
Corol round the inside of the mouth of the fruit, long-pedicel- 
led. Calyx of from three to five, lanceolate, hairy leaflets. 
Stamina three. Female corollets numerous, sub-sessile, Ca- 
lyx generally three-leaved, Germ round. Style — 
pering to a fine, hairy, coloured 2 eg 
