Ficus. MONOECIA MONANDRIA, 559 
large branches, ramifications spreading and jointed. Bractes 
several surrounding the joints, two-fruited, at least there are 
always the germs of two, but rarely both come to muturity. 
Fruit pedicelled, nearly as large as common figs, clothed 
with much soft down, when ripe of a rich orange colour, um- 
bilicus closed with innumerable scales. Calyx of the fruit 
small, three-leaved. 
The fruit is eaten by the natives, I have often tasted them, 
but to me they are disagreeable. This species yields much 
milky juice. 
50. F. conglomerata. R. 
Arboreous. Leaves alternate, sub-semi-cordate, cuspidate, 
rough and hard. Fruit roundish, tubercled, crowded on 
long, procumbent, or drooping, decompound, cauline, leaf- 
less branches. 
Borum of the natives of Chittagong, where the tree is indi- 
genous. In the Botanic garden at Calcutta, it is loaded with 
pate the whole year. 
Trunk tolerably straight. Bark of a dirty olive colour. 
Branches numerous, spreading in every direction; bark of 
the young shoots rough and hairy; height of the trees in the 
Botanic garden, now eleven years old, about twenty feet, and 
they seem full grown. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, by 
far the greater part of them unequally long-cordate, while the 
plants are young, serrulate ; when old, entire, firm, and very 
scabrous, particularly on the upper surface ; from four to ten 
_ inches long, and about half that in breadth. Stipules inter- 
foliaceous, and caducous. Fruit, from the lower part of the 
trunk of our trees issue numerous procumbent, diverging, or 
drooping, ramous, leafless branches, crowded with numer- 
ous, sessile, roundish, scaly, warted figs, about the size of a 
large filbert with a large scaly umbilicus, Proper perianth 
of the female of five, lanceolate leaflets. Male flovete ie 
monandrous, with a three-leaved perianth. F 
