536 MONOECIA MONANDRIA. Ficus. 
rally acutely and regularly serrate, the upper surface scab- 
rous, underneath downy; size very various. Petioles about 
half the length of the leaves. Stipules opposite, and not drop- 
ping so soon as in the other species I have met with. Fruit 
axillary, solitary, peduncled, obovate, somewhat scabrous, 
scarcely the size of the point of the little finger. Peduncle 
bracted at the middle, or it may be called a three-leaved ca- 
lyx, and then the fruit is pedicelled. 
17. F. radicans, R. 
Shrubby, scandent, and rooting. Leaves oblong, entire, 
long-linear, acuminate, Fruit globular, without a common 
calyx, long-peduncled. Male corollets monandrous. 
Poora rooha the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is in- 
digenous; it grows to be of a considerable extent, rooting 
upon old walls, various kinds of bushes and trees, like the 
ivy in Europe and the parasites in India, but has its main 
root generally though not always on the ground. In fruit the 
whole year, 
Young shoots a little harsh to the feel, and green. Leaves 
alternate, petioled, oblong, entire, three-nerved ; apex long, 
and very narrow, or ensiform like that of F. religiosa, hard 
and rather rough with reticulate veins underneath ; lateral 
nerves small, springing from the base and running elose to the 
margin ; from three to six inches long, and from one to three 
_ broad, Stipules as in the genus, but small. Fruit peirator or 
_ single from the base of the little branchlets, all axillary, long- — 
peduncled, round, of the size of a black currant, when ripe, 
yellow or orange. Calyx of the receptacle none, Proper 
perianth in both male and female five-cleft ; segments ensi- 
form. Male corollets monandrous, a few lek the inside of 
ee mouth of the receptacle, all the rest female. _ 
“18, F. scandens, R. ; 
Shrubby, scandent. | tomes Uaetiitlededi sialen entire, 
fruit in axillary pairs, round, borane common calyx 
three-toothed, - ‘ 
Sua 
