542 MONOECIA MONANDRIA, Ficus. 
Trunk erect, from five to six or more feet in circumference, 
and high in proportion. Bark as in most of the genus tole- 
rably smooth, of a light ash-colour, The wood as in far the 
greatest number of our East Indian Fic?, rather soft, porous, 
of a light brown colour,and appears to be fit for fuel, or char- 
coal only. Branches numerous, spreading and rising in every 
direction, forming a very extensive, and shady head; the | 
bark of the largest ones is like that of the trunk, that of the 
young shoots smooth, polished, of a deep green. 
The Juntipoor Raja who procured plants of this tree and 
branches in young fruit, says the tree from whence the lat- 
ter were taken is only four years old and is twenty-five feet 
high, with a trunk three feet in circumference. 
From the larger branches roots descend as in many of the 
Indian Fici, 
Leaves permanent, alternate, petioled, from oval to oblong, 
perfectly entire, acute, smooth, and highly polished on both 
sides, with the upper surface deep clear green, andthe under — 
one paler, from four to twelve inches long, and from three to 
five broad, with numerous, fine, diverging veins, as in Callo- 
phyllum inophyllum. Rib smooth and deeply tinged with red. 
Petioles about an inch long, round and perfectly smooth, Sti- 
pules solitary, sheathing, before they burst sub-cylindric, and 
tapering to a fine point, every part smooth, on the outside of 
a deep rosy colour; within paler, they drop off at an early 
period, leaving a permanent annular mark behind, and are 
from four to eight inches long ; 1 have not met with any other 
species with such a beautiful foliage, and stipule as in this. 
Fruit or receptacle in axillary pairs, sessile, just when they 
arerelieved from the stipules each of them is inclosed in a dou- 
ble integument or involucre, which by the growth of the fruit 
soon bursts and disappears, leaving annular marks round — 
the base of the frait. When ripe oval and about the size of 
an olive, smooth, and of a greenish yellow colour. Male and 
JSemale corollets intimately mixed over the whole of the innet 
surface of the fruit or receptacle. Male calyx three-parted ; 
