Fieus. MONOECIA MONANDRIA. 557 
generally by threes, which subdivide irregularly, and spread 
in every direction. Bark brown and considerably scabrous. 
The tree rarely exceeds twenty feet in height, and spreads as. 
much, Leaves alternate, petioled, round-cordate, entire, be- 
tween obtuse and pointed, three-nerved, above smooth, deep 
green, marked with some white dots; below very pale, some- 
what downy, and reticulate with many transverse small 
- veins; from twelve to eighteen inches long, and nearly as 
broad, Petioles round, from three to six inches long, — Sti- 
pules within the leaves, as in the other species. Fruit pe- 
duncled, fully as large or larger than the common fig, collect- 
ed in branches of from six to twenty, on projecting tubero- 
sities on the trunk, and lower parts of the largest branches, 
they are turnip-shaped, hairy, glandular, and marked with 
from eight to twelve ridges running from the base to the 
apex. Calyx three-leaved, pressing upon the fruit, Umbi- 
licus very large and closed with innumerable heart-shaped, 
acute scales, some few of which often extend to some distance 
round its mouth. lowers, only females found, | could not 
observe any perianth ; the stigma single, hairy, of a beautiful 
rose-colour. 
The fruit is eaten by the natives in their curries iehene: the 
tree is indigenous ; every part of it is replete with much, very 
tenaceous, milky juice, which flows abundantly from fresh 
wounds, 
48, FE, lanceolata, of Dr. Buchanan. 
Shrubby. | Leaves lanceolate, smooth, entire. Frutt in 
fascicles near the root, as well as on the trunk and larger 
branches, peduncled, verrucose, compressed, turbinate, with 
the umbilicus in the bottom ofa deep concavity. . 
_ A native of Chittagong, and from thence sent by Dr, Bu- 
chanan to this garden in 1798, where it produces fruit, more 
or less, the whole year round ; but chiefly about the begin- 
ning of the rains. 
Trunk scarcely any, but many ascending biaashel 5 issuing 
