Ficus. MONOECIA MONANDRIA. 553 
bark is pretty smooth, and ash-coloured, the branchlets are 
very slender, much sub-divided, and often pendulous. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, oval, obliquely-pointed, entire, 
firm, smooth and shining, from two to four inches long. Pe- 
tioles very slender, about an inch long, grooved, Fruit ter- 
minal, or in the exterior axills, paired, sessile, size of a goose- 
berry ; apea depressed with the umbilicus rising a little in 
the centre, which is shut up with the scales; contracted at 
the base, something like the neck of a bottle, smooth, when 
ripe of a rich deep yellow colour. Calys of the fruit three- 
leaved. Proper perianth of the male and female corollets, 
(there are no hermaphrodite that I could find) three-leaved ; 
leaflets lanceolate. Filaments single. .Anthers two-lobed. 
Style long, slender, Stigma filiform, two-cleft. 
Note. Lobserved a hood over the rudiments of the young 
fruit, which fell off as soon as they began to increase in size. 
39. F. urticifolia, R. 
Leaves cordate, three-nerved, serrate, hispid above, downy 
underneath. uit in axillary pairs, long-peduncled, turbi- 
binate in a rather remote three-leaved calyx, sernys the size 
of a small gooseberry. 
A native of the mountains north of Bengal. 
AO. F. ampelos. Kon. Mss. or 
Branches dropping fibrous roots. Leaves obliquely 
oval, scabrous, Fruit paired, axillary, pedicelled, pisiform, 
smooth, yellow. 
Teling. Tella-barinka. 
A large tree, a native of mountainous countries chiefly. 
Trunk remarkably short, but very thick, and sometimes so 
completely ornamented with small, very leafy branchlets, as 
to hide it entirely; a most beautiful tree, thus embellished is 
to be seen at Ganjam. Top very large, spreading toa great 
distance ; I have seen small pendulous, filiform roots, issuing 
from the larger branches. Bark smooth, sh-coloured 1 vit 
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