542 MONOECIA MONANDRIA. FicUS. 



Trunk erect, from five to six or more feet in circumference, 

 and high in proportion. Bark as in most of the genus tole- 

 rably smooth, of a light ash-colour. The wood as in far the 

 greatest number of our East Indian Fici, rather soft, porous, 

 of a light brown colour, and appears to be fit for fuel, or char- 

 coal only. Branches numerous, spreading and rising in every 

 direction, forming a very extensive, and shady head ; the 

 bark of the largest ones is like that of the trunk, that of the 

 young shoots smooth, polished, of a deep green. 



The Juiitipoor Raja who procured plants of this tree and 

 branches in young fruit, says the tree from whence the lat- 

 ter were taken is only four years old and is twenty-five feet 

 high, with a trunk three feet in circumference. 



From the larger branches roots descend as in many of the 

 Indian Fici. 



Leaves permanent, alternate, petioled,from oval to oblong, 

 perfectly entire, acute, smooth, and highly polished on both 

 sides, with the upper surface deep clear green, and the under 

 one paler, from four to twelve inches long, and from three to 

 five broad, with numerous, fine, diverging veins, as in Callo- 

 phyllum inophyllum. Rib smooth and deeply tinged with red. 

 Petioles about an inch long, round and perfectly smooth. Sti- 

 pules solitary, sheathing, before they burst sub-cylindric, and 

 tapering to a fine point, every part smooth, on the outside of 

 a deep rosy colour; within paler, they drop off at an early 

 period, leaving a permanent annular mark behind, and are 

 from four to eight inches long ; I have not met with any other 

 species with such a beautiful foliage, and stipule as in this. 

 Fruit or receptacle in axillary pairs, sessile, just when they 

 are relieved from the stipules each of them is inclosed in a dou- 

 ble integument or involucre, which by the growth of the fruit 

 soon bursts and disappears, leaving annular marks round 

 the base of the fruit. When ripe oval and about the size of 

 an olive, smooth, and of a greenish yellow colour. Male and 

 female corollets intimately mixed over the whole of the inner 

 surface of the fruit or receptacle. Male calyx three-parted; 



