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548 MONOECIA MONANDRIA. Ficus. 
and rising in every direction to a great distance and height. 
Branchlets often pendulous, Leaves alternate, petioled, pen- 
dulous, cordate, long, or slender, ensiform, pointed with the 
margins scollop-waved, both sides perfectly smooth, the up- 
per one of a deep shining green, about six inches long, of 
which the narrow point occupies nearly two, deciduous dur- 
ing the cold season. Petioles round, smooth, long, very slen- 
der, whence the constant trembling of the leaves arising from 
the most gentle air of wind, as in the aspen tree (Populus tre- 
mula.) Stipules sheathing, caducous, Fruit paired, axil- 
lary, sessile, vertically compressed; when ripe of the size and 
colour of a small black cherry. Calyx of the fruit three- 
leaved. 
Birds eat the fruit greedily. The wood like that of F. Jndi- 
ca is white, light, and soon perishes, of course it is not much 
used, Next to the malberry leaves I have found silk worms 
like the young tender leaves of this tree. Much tenaceous 
milky juice is discharged from fresh wounds made in the — 
bark. 
31. F. cordifolia. R. 
Leaves long, slender, petioled, ovate-cordate, waved, acu- 
minate, glossy. Fruit paired, sessile, round, smooth, black. 
Beny. Guy-aswut. 
_ Arbor Conciliorum. Rumph, Amb. iii. t. 90. 
Found in the vicinity of Calcutta, where it grows to be a 
large, very ramous, spreading tree. I never observed iton the 
C del coast. Like F. religiosa, which it most resem- 
: Sans thetrtink is short ; while young round and straight, but 
when old deeply Sincived; as if composed of many conlesced 
trunks, 
Bark smooth. Branches spreading, ‘aldins sidionslog 
Leaves petioled, ovate-cordate, waved, most entire, fine point- 
ed, smooth and shining on both sides, somewhat three-nerv- 
ed, with the veins less numerous and less distinct than in F. 
religiosa, Petioles long, slender, nodding, giving to their 
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