528 MONOECIA M<)N.\NDUIA. FlCHS. 



Soccus lanosus, granosus and sylvestris. Runiph. jJinb. i. 

 t. 32, 33, and 34. 



A native of the Mohicoas, and South Sea Islands. It lias 

 been long- introduced into Bengal, but the winters there are 

 much two cold for it, and during that period it looses near- 

 ly as much as it gains the rest of the year. 



FICUS. Schreb. gen. N. J 613. 



Male and J'emate coroUets on the interior surface of the 

 common receptacle. Proper perianth various in both. Co- 

 roUets none. Seeds solitary. 



JVo^e. 1 have examined minutely the florets of nearly the 

 whole of the following- species, and found only two instances 

 in which they were not androgynous ; and by far the great- 

 er part monandrous. 



SECT. I. Fruit solitary or paired. 



1. F. Carica. Willd. i v. 1131. 



Xeaues angular, lobate, or palmate, three-nerved, scabrous 

 above, downy underneath. Fruit solitary, turbinate, smooth. 



Pers. Unjeer. 



Arab, Seen. 



Beng. Doomar or Doombwr. 



Found in a cultivated state, in India, Persia, and Arabia. 

 The leaf is much less divided than in the trees from England, 

 or than I ever observed them in Europe. 



2. F. hirsuta. Roxb. 



Arboreous. Tender parts hirsute. Leaves round-cordate, 

 from three to five-lobed, serrate-dentate; lobes acute. Fruit 

 axillary, paired, sessile, oval, shaggy. 



Dungra, the vernacular name in the Silhet district, where 

 the tree is indigenous, and produces fruit during the dry 

 Bcason. 



