Ficus. MONOECIA MONANDRIA, 549 
leaves a tremulous motion with the least wind. Stipules as 
in the genus. Fruit paired, axillary, sessile, round, smooth, 
when ripe of the size and appearance of a black cherry. 
Calyx of the fruit three-leaved. Navel closed with three 
small scales, 
Obs, It approaches nearest to F, religiosa, of any species I 
know, yet is easily to be distinguished from it by the leaves 
being narrower in proportion to the length, with much shorter 
points, and instead of the lobes forming a sinus at the base, 
there is a small degree of projection at the insertion of the 
petiole. And in the second place by the fruit being perfectly 
round, and not, as in religiosa, vertically compressed. 
32. F. Tsiela. 
Leaves long-petioled, ovate-oblong, acute, ‘lished veins 
parallel and simple. Fruit paired, axillary, sessile, round- 
turbinate. 
Tsiela, Rheed. Mal. iii. ¢. 63, seems to be this tree. 
Teling. Joovee, or Pedda-Joovee.. 
This next to F. refigiosa, is the largest species I know. Its 
native station is the mountains, but it is also found every 
where on the low lands planted with F. Indica and religiosa, 
where it grows to be nearly as large, and is equally shady. 
Bark smooth, greenish, no roots from the trunk, nor 
branches. Leaves alternate, petioled, somewhat three-nerved, 
ovate-oblong, pointed, most entire, firm, smooth on both sides, 
shining, particularly on the upper side, with numerous, sim- 
ple and parallel veins, from four to six inches long, and from 
two to three broad. Petioles a little compressed, from one 
to two inches long. Stipules as in the other species, but in 
this they leave no durable cicatrice. Fruit paired, axillary, 
’ sessile, a little inclining to be turbinate, smooth, the size of a 
cherry, when ripe purple. Calyx of the fruit small, three- 
leaved.. Umbilicus shut up with scales. 
_ Note. Plukenet’s figure, referred to by Linnzeus is ani 
From wounds in the bark there issues a little, pale, glu- 
tinous, milky juice. 
