554 MONOECIA MONANDRIA, Ficus. 
a dusky film. Leaves alternate, tending to be bifarious, | 
spreading, short-petioled, obliquely oval, obtusely pointed, a 
little scolloped, scabrous, and very firm; generally about 
three or four inches long. Petioles short, curved, channelled. 
Stipules small, as in the rest of the family. Fruit axillary, 
paired, peduncled, when ripe the size of a pea, and yellow. 
Calyx of the fruit none, of the peduncles three-leaved, small. 
The leaves are used to polish ivory. 
Al. F. asperrima. Roxb. 
Leaves oval, often scolloped, very scabrous, Fruit axil- 
lary, paired, peduncled, round, downy. 
Teregam. Rheed. Mal. iii. 60. 
Teling. Karakar-booda. 
A large tree, a native of moist valleys. 
Trunk erect. Branches numerous, spreading into a large 
shady head. Branchlets rust-coloured, scabrous, Leaves 
alternate, about the extremities of the branchlets petioled, 
broad, oval, obtusely pointed, sometimes notched, and even 
lobate, very scabrous, a little wrinkled, three-nerved, from 
four to six inches long. Petioles about an inch long, seab- 
rous, Stipules as in the family. Fruit axillary, paired, pe- 
duncled, downy, size of a gooseberry, when ripe yellow. 
42, F. tuberculata. R. 
Leaves short-petioled, oblong, entire, acute, rough. Frutt 
in pairs, peduncled, roundish, the size of a large pea, tuber- 
cled, the umbilicus elevated. 
Teling. Kouda-joovee. 
A native of the mountains of Coromandel, where it grows 
to be a small very ramous tree. 
43. F. angustifolia. R. 
Leaves sub-opposite, lanceolate, smooth, acute, Frutt 
axillary, paired, long-peduncled, turbinate, smooth. 
A large tree, a native of the Circar mountains. 
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