560 MONOECIA MONANDRIA, Ficus. 
51. F. congesta, Roxb. ; 
Arboreous, smooth. Leaves petioled, oblong, entire, 
smooth. Fruit roundish-turbinate, sessile, heaped on radical, 
and cauline, short, leafless, ramous branchlets, or panicles. . 
Mussu of the Malays at Amboyna, where it is indigenous, 
though by no means like that figured in the 95th Table of 
Rumph. Herb, Amb, vol. iii, under the same Malay name. 
Introduced into the Botanic garden at Calcutta in 1802, 
and in 1809, They are now from eight to twelve feet high, 
with a straight trunk, branches few, clothed with dark brown, 
now while young trees, smooth bark. 
Leaves opposite, and alternate, short-petioled, oblong, en- 
tire, smooth, deep green; about six inches Jong, and about 
three broad. Fruit short-peduncled, sometimes a single one 
or two are found in the superior axills, but by far the most 
common on large compound racemes or panicles projecting 
from the trunk, and far the most near the root. They are. 
about the size of a filbert, turbinate, smooth. Stamina single. 
— sessile, bright red. 
62. F. racemifera, R. 
Arboreous. Leaves alternate, cordate, crenulate, Fruit 
on compound, glomerate racemes, from the woody part of the 
tree, below the leaves, t 
Caprificus amboinensis. Rumph, Amb. iii. t. 93. 
_ A native of Sumatra, from thence introduced into eee Bo- 
tanic garden by Dr. Charles Campbell. The trees are small, 
and in fruit most part of the year. Leaves deciduous during 
the cold season. 
Trunk straight, tapering. Bark smooth, dark greenish 
brown, Branches very numerous, and spreading in every wi - 
rection ; young parts smooth, Leaves alternate, petioled, cor- 
date, crenate, from three to five-nerved, smooth on. aedeniiels 
from six to twelve inches long. Petioles round, smooth, 
scarcely half the length of the leaves. Stipules within the 
leaves, caducous. Racemes often compound, or decompound, 
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