970 Agricultural Gazette of N.S. jr. [Dec. 'Z,\^Qb. 



T liuve (Itviwn attention {Ayric. Gazette, 1893, p. 609; 189-t, jj. :2UG) to 

 tlie value of this tree to dairy fanners. The observations wer-e original as 

 regards Australia, though T afterwards found that leaves of other species of 

 Ficus are used for feed in parts of India. 



Bearing in niind the way in whicli these and other nati\(' Figs Hdurish 

 exceedingly in the jiooi-est soil, that cattle ttevour the leaves and branchlets- 

 greedily, that they will submit to persistent hacking back to an extent which 

 will kill most other trees, it seems a matter for consideration that these trees 

 should always be planted for shade purposes on dairy farms and they should 

 even be planted as a i-eserve of fodder in stony, sterile places where no grass 

 will grow. 



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17. Ficus macrophylla, Des(. 



Botanic Gardens, Sydney. 



18. F. Moorei, Seemann. This species seems to have disappeared from 



the Sydney Botanic Gardens, and I n'piil)lis]i the original description in order 



that it may be recovered, as it is probably in Sydney. 



F. Moorei (n. sp.), Seem. mss. in Herli. Mus. Biit.; arljorea ; ramulis pilosulis demum 

 glal)ris; foliis alternis petiolatis ovatii-obknigis acuminatis basi suljcordatis, inargiiie 

 iutcgerrimo uiidulato, glabris penniuorviis, iiervis priinariis 7-13 (costaque in stirp. 

 junior. ])urpurt'is) ; receptaculis axillaribus gemiiiis pedunculatis obovatis glabris, 

 pedunciilo medio inerassato .3-braeteato, bracteis ovatis obtusiusculis. — F. sawjuiner- 

 vium, Hort. /•'. Cooperi, Hort. ex Kegel, Index Semin. Hort. Petropolit, 1866^ 



