530 MONOECIA MONANDRIA. FicUS. 



nulate, villous ; from six to ten inches long-. Petioles round, 

 downy, two or three inches long-. Fruit axillary, long-pe- 

 duncled, solitary, erect, of a triangular-turbinate shape, Avith 

 a round, closed, prominent umbilicus ; wrinkled on the out- 

 side, and somewhat villous ; when ripe yellowish, and about 

 the size of a gooseberry. Calyx of the fruit three-leaved, 

 that of the corollets five-leaved, as in the genus. 



JVote. The plant has so much the general habit of F. Ca- 

 rica, that I long considered it an accidental variety, but as 

 the tree is less like it when old, and the shape of the leaves 

 continues constant, I am now induced to consider it a distinct 

 species. The fruit is tough, and very unpalatable, in short 

 not eatable. 



5. F. virgata. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves broad-cordate, obtuse, serrate-crenate, 

 three-nerved, downy. Fruit axillary and lateral, peduncled, 

 solitary, oval, smooth. 



A native of Rohilcund ; flowering time the dry season. 



Trunk tolerably erect. Brandies few, weak, ascending-, 

 covered with smooth, brownish, ash-coloured bark ; the whole 

 height of plants six years old, from four to eight feet. Leaves 

 alternate, petioled, broad-cordate, three-nerved, obtuse, ser- 

 rate-crenate, very downy underneath ; from three to four 

 inches long, by three broad. Petioles round, downy, about 

 two inches long. Stipules semi-lanceolate, caducous. Fruit 

 axillary, solitary, ovate, of the size of a pea, yellow, pretty 

 smooth, supported on round, downy peduncles, rather less 

 than an inch long. Calyx, common, three-leaved, and re- 

 moved a little from the fruit, by a short pedicel. Male. 

 Coro/ round the inside of the mouth of the fruit, long-pedicel- 

 led. Calyx of from three to five, lanceolate, hairy leaflets. 

 Stamina three. Female corollets numerous, sub-sessile. Ca- 

 lyx generally three-leaved. Germ round. Style hairy, ta- 

 pering to a fine, hairy, coloured stigma. 



