a MONOECIA MONANDRIA. Ficus. 
peduncled, numerous about the base of the annual shoot, 
round, hairy. . 
A native of the mountains north of Bengal. 
46. F. polycarpa. R. 
_Arboreous. Leaves oblong, some of them slightly waved, 
or serrulate, both sides scabrous. Fruit in fascicles, from the 
trunk, or woody branches, 
Introduced from the Moluccas into the Botanic garden at 
Calcutta, in 1798, they are only small trees at present. In 
fruit about the close of the rains. 
Trunk straight; branches sub-erect, Bark of the ligne- _ 
ous parts dark brown, and rather scabrous; of the young 
shoots a little scabrous, with a few short bristles rising single 
from the centre of a small umbilicated gland. Leaves alter- 
nate, oblong, somewhat three-nerved; margins sometimes 
entire, sometimes waved, or remotely serrulate, both sides 
scabrous, from the same sort of bristles and glands as cover 
the -bark of the young parts; a ereen gland in the axills of 
the nerves, as in F, /aciniata; from four to six inches long. 
Petioles coloured, from one to two inches long. Stipules as 
in the genus. Fruit in fascicles of as far twenty, from the 
large branches, or trunk, peduncled, round, the size of a large 
pea, scabrous with glands and short bristles. Umbilicus 
small, round, and shut with scales. Calyx of the fruit none, 
of the peduncles or bractes, obscure, small and crowded. 
AZ. F. macrophylla. R. 
Arboreous. Leaves round-cordate, three-nerved. Fruit 
collected in bundles near the root, turnip-shaped, from eight 
to twelve-ribbed, hairy. 
I have only found this species in the Company’s potacite 
garden, where it isin fruit the whole year. It was originally 
brought from Nepal. It is however, a native of Silhet and 
Chittagong also. : oes ‘3 
Trunk short, for it soon divides into a few, stout branches, - 
