Ficus. - MONOECIA MONANDRIA, 547 
cordate, acute, entire, in the bud hirsute, when expanded, 
smooth, strongly marked with simple parallel veins, Peti- 
oles short and ramentaceous. Fruit in short-peduncled, axil- 
lary pairs, smooth, the size of a small cherry, and red. 
A small tree, a native of Chittagong, where it produces 
fruit during the rains, In drying, the leaves become particu- 
larly glossy, while in the bud and until pretty well expand- 
ed, the large simple parallel veins are very hairy, From the 
branches roots descend as in F, Indica, and some other spe- 
cies, but never grow to any size asin Indica. 
30. F. religiosa. Willd, iv. 1134, 
Leaves cordate, scollop-waved, cuspidate. Fruit in wait 
lary, sessile pairs, vertically compressed, smooth, black. 
Arcalu. Rheed. Mal. i. t. 27. 
Sans. Pippula. See Asiat. Res. iv. 309, also Bodhi-droo- 
ma, Chuladula, Koonjurashuna, Aswattha, - 
Beng. Aswat, or Asood. 
Hind. baa 
ge Raz, 
This very large tree is common in every part of India. I 
have frequently met with it wild upon mountains, but it is 
most common near houses, where it is planted for the sake of 
the extensive, dark, grateful shade it yields, Flowering time 
the hot season. 
Root spreading horizontally to a great extent, and very 
near the surface of the earth, often on it, from the soil having 
been washed away by rain, Trunk erect, in small trees round, 
when large and old it becomes full of equalities, i, e. 
large perpendicular ridges and hollows, as if many trunks 
were: united; its thickness is, very various, the largest trees 
that I have seen were about twenty feet in circumference but 
short in proportion to that thickness, being rarely more than 
twenty or twenty-five feet to the branches. Bark pretty 
smooth, ash-coloured, Branches very numerous, spreading, 
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