Ficus. MONOECIA MONANDRIA, 555 
Branchlets rust-coloured, but smooth. Leaves between 
alternate and opposite, short-petioled, most slightly three- 
nerved, broad-lanceolate, or oblong, sharp-pointed, smooth 
on both sides, entire; from four to eight inches long. Sti- 
pules as in the genus. Fruit axillary, paired, long-pedun- 
cled, turbinate, the size of a large pea, smooth ; umbilicus ele- 
vated. Calyx of the fruit none, but there is a small three- 
scaled one at the base of the peduncle. 
SECT. Il. Fruit fasicled, racemed, or panicled. 
44, F. exasperata. R. 
Arboreous. Leaves short:petioled, oblong, acuminate, re- 
pand-serrate, rough on both sides, Fruit axillary, solitary, 
or in ‘pairs, peduncled, round, size of a pea. 
A native of the eastern parts of India and introduced into 
this garden in 1798, By the close of 1802, the trees were 
from twelve to fifteen feet high, with an erect trunk and 
branches; covered with rust-coloured, pretty smooth bark ; 
Young shoots scabrous, Leaves alternate, short-petioled, 
oblong, somewhat three-nerved, repand-serrate, acuminate, 
scabrous on both sides, so much so that they are fit to polish 
wood, and ivory with ; from three to six inches long, and from 
one and a half to three broad. Fruit axillary, solitary or in 
pairs, peduncled, rough, the size of a small pea ; umbilicus 
small, depressed, and shut with coloured scales. 
Folium politorium, Rumph, Amb, iv, t. 63, agrees with 
the leaves of our oldest trees, and as they were brought from 
Amboyna, I conclude they are the same. Louriero’s F. poli- 
toria is certainly different, for there is nothing like a spike 
‘to be found on our trees; besides Louriero describes his to 
_be a shrub only, It ong, however, to be compared with 
F, — Willd. iv, 1144. 
45, F. roliedt ifolia, R. 
_ Leaves round, scollop-serrate, downy underneath, Fruit 
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