552 MONOECIA MONANDRIA, Ficus. 
breadth. Petioles about an inch only, flat on the upper side ; 
a waxy gland on each side of their insertion, Stipu/es within 
the leaves, just below their insertion a ring of permanent sca- 
brous dots surround the branchlet. Fruit axillary, solitary, 
short-peduncled, size of a small medlar, turnip-shaped, con- 
cave at both apex and base, dotted with small white scabrous 
specks. Calyx of the peduncle none; of the fruit two, or 
three-leaved ; /eaflets small, thick and glandulous, Umbili- 
cus shut with numerous scales. 
37. F. excelsa. Vahl. en. pl. ii. 195. 
Arboreous, smooth, Leaves short-petioled, bifarious, ob- 
liquely-oblong, smooth, Fruit solitary or paired, peduncled, 
sub-turbinate. Calyx of the peduncle tridentate} navel 
round, 
- Atti meer alou. Rheed. Mal. iii. t, 58. 
- Introduced from the Moluccas, into this garden, The fruit 
appease about the beginning of the rains, 
» Trunk and branches straight ; as yet the trees are not more 
destten oF twelve fect high, and spread but little. Bark 
smooth, of a greenish ash-colour. Leavesalternate, bifarious, 
unequally oblong, sometimes pointed, entire, smooth above 
and slightly scabrous underneath, the middle nerve nearer 
the upper margin than the under one; about six inches long, 
and about three broad. Fruit axillary, solitary or paired, pe- 
duncled, nearly round, the size of a cherry, smooth, when ripe 
yellow. Calyx of the peduncle three-toothed, of the fruit 
none. Umbilicus small, round, shut on the inside with minute 
scarcely visible scales. 
38. F. comosa, Willd, iv. 1148, Corom. pl. ii. N. 125. 
Leaves oblong-ventricose, pointed, smooth. Fruit in care 
generally terminal, turbinate, smooth, red. 
Teling, Pootra-joovee. 
This is a pretty large tree, a native of the Crema 
tains, It has a large spreading, very branchy shady top, the 
