532 MONOECIA MONANDRIA, Ficus. 
nalee, where Colonel Hardwicke found it growing in moist 
situations, and spreading over the rocks, See Asiat, Res. vi. 
p. 379. 
9. F. heterophylla. 
Shrubby, sub-scandent, Leaves variously divided, scab- 
rous, Fruit axillary, paired, peduncled, rough. 
Valli teregam. Rheed. Mal. iii. t. 62. 
Beng. Ghoti-suara. 
Teling. Buroni. 
A weak, straggling, shrubby species, a native ciof thickets, 
&c, on the banks of rivers, and water courses, where its roots 
are constantly moist, 
Stems long, woody, weak, supporting themselves amongst 
bushes. Bark scabrous, rust-coloured, Leaves alternate, 
short-petioled, oval or oblong, sometimes entire, but more 
frequently divided into almost every form that can be ima- 
gined, very scabrous, with the divisions often toothed. Fruit 
axillary, paired, peduncled, round-turbinate, of the size of a 
large gooseberry, when ripe yellow, with whitish, scabrous 
spots, Calyx of the fruit minute, three-parted. 
The bark of the root is very bitter, it is given by the Hin- 
doos of these parts to remove pains in the bowels, 
This is truly a polymorphous plant, and I suspect Vahl’s 
Ficus denticulata, truncata, and serrata, as well as Willde- 
‘now’s aquatica, and probably Louriero’s cannabina, are no- 
"thing more than varieties of this species; at least I have nevet 
met with any other that can be compared with them, and this 
varies so much, even on the same plant, as to agree with them 
all. 
10. F. scabrella. R. 
Shrubby, scandent. Leaves alternate, siebeaainei ob- 
long, remotely serrulate-dentate, scabrous, Fruit axillary, — 
solitary, peduncled, turbinate, mails o of the size of'a an 
obixs, scales of the umbilicus ciliate. 
