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Номото$ LuPurLUs, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Or. iv. p. 1152. 
Between Asterabad and the Caspian : 1113, October 30, 1885. This, with other shrubs, 
forms impenetrable hedges. It is indigenous over the whole country between the base 
of the mountains at Asterabad and the Caspian Sea. 
CANNABIS SATIVA, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Or. iv. p. 1152. 
Khorasan: 1114, August 25, 1885. І never met with a single indigenous specimen 
of this plant. At Rui-Khauf it was cultivated by some Hindoos. 
Monvs ALBA, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Or. iv. p. 1153. 
Badghis: 507, May 18, 1885. Native names: Тиё, Tul. An indigenous tree near 
water, at an altitude above 3000 feet. Extensively cultivated in orchards for feeding silk- 
worms, and also for its fruit, which is eaten in a fresh state as well as dried; in the 
latter state it is made into bread with flour. 
Ficus Carica, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Or. iv. p. 1154 (varietates). (Plate XLVI.)—F. Johan- 
nis, Boiss. Diagn. ser. 1, vii. p. 96.—F. geraniifolia, Мід. in Hooker's Lond. Journ. 
Bot. vii. p. 225, et Over de Africaanische Vijge-boomen, p. 18, t. 2, c.—F. persica, 
Boiss. loc. cit. ? 
Badghis: 481, May 16, 19, 18, 1885; Khorasan: 1115, August 18, 1885. Native 
names: Anjir, Anjir-kohi. Of shrubby habit, reaching 12 feet in height, inhabiting clefts 
of rocks and escarpments of hill-sides; not uncommon. It was first seen at Tirphul 
and subsequently in great abundance on the rocks at Sim-koh. There were both yellow- 
and purple-fruited varieties. Тһе Fig is largely eultivated for its fruit in Afghanistan, 
as well as in Persia. | 
- Both the male and the female of Ficus Carica appear to be indigenous in the Badghis 
country and Eastern Persia, though DeCandolle (* Origine des Plantes Cultivées,’ p. 237), 
as the result of his researches, restricts the area of the prehistoric Fig to the Mediter- 
ranean region, from Syria to the Canary Islands. Of course, it is very difficult to judge 
where a plant that has been cultivated for ages is really indigenous. It may occur in a 
wild state, but whether it has descended from originally wild progenitors or from culti- 
vation, it is almost impossible to say, especially in countries formerly more generally 
inhabited and cultivated than at present. Yet the Fig, both male and female, seems to 
be as much at home in the districts named as blackberries in England, and the fact of the 
two sexes being equally common in a wild state points to its being indigenous. 
Most readers interested in the subject of the fertilization of plants and the sexual 
relationships of the Fig and Caprifig will be acquainted with the results of the investi- 
cations of Saunders and Westwood in this country, and of Solms and Fritz Müller among 
{осып writers*. Іп this connection we һауе carefully examined the different forms 
collected, with the result that we find some of the specimens bearing receptacles which 
contain male flowers and “ eall-flowers ” (in other words, female flowers which are always 
* It may be mentioned that Mr. W. B. Hemsley has summarized Solms and Müllers various articles on this 
subject in the * Gardener's Chronicle,’ n. в, xix. pp. 529 and 572, and xxv. p. 265, and in * Nature,’ xvii. p. 584. 
