BAG MONOECIA MONANDRIA, Ficus, 
and polished ; from four to seven inches long, and from two 
to six broad. Petioles from one to two inches long, flatten- 
ed,’smooth. Stipules interfoliaceous, smooth, fine-pointed. 
Fruit axillary, sessile, oval, smooth, the size of a gooseberry. 
Involucre, or calyx of the fruit three-lobed. Female corol- 
lets only found. Calyx of four oblong leaflets scarcely longer 
‘than the germs. Style subulate. Stigma acute. 
27. F. selerophylia. R. . 
Leaves short-petioled, linear-oblong, hard and glossy, as 
are all the tender parts of the tree, Fruit in axillary pairs, 
short-peduncled, round, the size of a gooseberry, and yellow. 
A large tree, a native of the forests of Chittagong. 
28. F. obtusifolia, R. 
Arboreous. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, from cunei- 
form, to linear-oblong, thick, hard and glossy. Fruit axil- 
lary, paired, or single, sessile, round, smooth, the size of a 
‘small gooseberry, and yellow. 
A large elegant tree ; a native of the forests of Chittagong, 
where it produces fruit during the hot and rainy seasons. 
Young shoots polished, and marked with annular scars of 
the smooth, caducous, ash-coloured stipules, Leaves alter- 
nate, short-petioled, from linear-oblong to cuneiform, entire, — 
obtuse, highly polished, and of a hard texture, about six 
inches long, and from two to two and a half broad. Fruit in 
axillary pairs, though one often fails, sessile round, smooth, the 
‘size of a small} gooseberry, when ripe yellow; umbilicus ra- 
ther sunk, and shut with a few smooth, large scales, Calyx 
of the fruit of three reniform glossy leaflets, Male corollets 
numerous, monandrous, and mixed amongst the sessile fe- 
male ones through the whole of the inside of the receptacle; ~ 
‘the perianth in both is three-leaved, the style in this species 
is remarkably = witha tapering, acute stg = sae 
29, F. rameniacea. R 
Arboreous, branches iebbine roots. Leaves — on 
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