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ontire lanceolate-acuminate, shiny above, dull underneath, 6 inches long, 

 with under 2 inches broad is a common size. 

 L 18 c, 22 f. See phot... 



26. F. R(jxhur(ilili , Wall. Himalaya and liuniia. See t. 211 (also 

 frontispiece), vol. i, Ann. Bot. Gm-fl,^ Calcutta. 



A moderate-sized tree in India, A fine species, with lar-ge heart-shH}ied 

 leaves, and conspicuous masses of large figs growing on the trunk. The 

 fruit is eaten, and is fairly good. The leaves are used for fodder. (Gamble.) 



AN'ith us it is only a shrub ; it has grown 6 or 8 feet high in Sydney, but 

 like many of the tropical Figs its wood decays and the plant eventually 

 perishes. 



In India it is one of the Asiatic species with largest leaves, and its large fruit 

 is abundantly borne on the stem ; the naming of our plant may Vje quite 

 correct, for it is grown in unnatural conditions. The leaves of our plant are 

 very dark coloured (reddish east) when young, and distinct in that respect 

 from any other Fig growing with us. 



M m: L 32 h. 



27. F. Schlechteri, "Wai'burg in Troijenpfianzer, vol. vii (I'JUo), p. 582; 

 figured on p. 583. A complete botanical description is given on page 582 in 

 Latin and in German. For some years previously caoutchouc was imported 

 to Sydney from New Caledonia and this caoutchouc was believed to come 

 from a Banjan Ficus, supposed to be Ficus jyrolixa , Forst. From the material 

 collected by Schlechter this is found to be an error ; the source of the 

 caoutchouc is the tree described as F. Schlechteri. The tree is closely allied 

 to Ficiis retusa, L. var. ttiltda, the common Banyan tree, and has entirely its 

 hal)it, bun while the caoutchouc of the Banyan tree is worthless, the caout- 

 chouc of F. Schlechteri is of excellent quality. 



The tree is found throughout the whole island of New Caledonia, on all 

 kinds of soils, but ahvays in single specimens. It is also a native of eastern 

 South Asia. The price of its caoutchouc was, in November, 1900, 3s. 5d, 

 per lb., and in Hamburg 3-65 marks per h kilo. 



Our largf-r tree in the Sydney Botanic Gardens is only 4 feet high at 

 present, but it promises to do well in the Sydney district. Sydney people 

 will n)ost likely compare it with F. riihiginosa as regards its foliage, but 

 bi)th sides of the leaf are glabrous. 



28. F. Taneyis is, ik Bennett. New Hebrides. See Bennett's " Gatherings 



of a Naturalist," p. 341, Nomen nihdumthen : but description furnished by 



Seemann's, Flora Vitlensi.i, p. 248. 



7'^. TaiKrti.'iis, G. Bennett, op. cit. ; arborea ; ranuilis petiolis(|ue glahris ; foliis alteniis 

 petiolatis ovato-oblongis v. obovato-oblongis abrupto-aeuminatis basi conlatis niteger- 

 rimis glabris penninerviis, venis ])rimariis iitrinquc S-10 : receptaculis axillaribus 

 geniinis longiusculepedunculati.s gloljosi.s basi in pcduncuhun attenuatis pubemilis denunn 

 glabratis, peduncuhs puberulis basi 8-bracteatis, bracteis ovatis aeutis.— Tana, New 

 Hebrides. Cultivated in the Botanic (Jardens, Sydney, New Soutli Wales. Branchiets 

 stout. Leaves from 6-S inches long, and from 3-4 inches broad. Peduncles as long as 

 the petioles. Eeceptacle as large as a cherry. 



