532 MONOECIA MONANDRU. FicUS. 



nalee, where Colonel Hardwicke found it growing- in moist 

 situations, and spreading over the rocks. See Asiat, Res. vi. 

 p. 379. 



9. F. heteropliylla. 



Shrubby, sub-scandent. Leaves variously divided, scab- 

 rous. Fruit axillary, paired, peduncled, rough. 



Valli teregam. Rheed. Mai. iii. t. 62. 



Beng. Ghoti-suara. 



Teling. Buroni. 



A weak, straggling, shrubby species, a native of thickets, 

 &c. on the banks of rivers, and water courses, where its roots 

 are constantly moist. 



Stems long*, woody, weak, supporting themselves amongst 

 bushes. Bark scabrous, rust-coloured. Leaves alternate, 

 short- petioled, oval or oblong, sometimes entire, but more 

 frequently divided into almost every form that can be ima- 

 gined, very scabrous, Avith the divisions often toothed. Fruit 

 axillary, paired, peduncled, round-turbinate, of the size of a 

 large gooseberry, when ripe yellow, Avith whitish, scabrous 

 spots. Calyx of the fruit minute, three-parted. 



The bark of the root is very bitter, it is given by the Hin- 

 doos of these parts to remove pains in the bowels. 



This is truly a polymorphous plant, and 1 suspect Vahl's 

 Ficus denticulata, truncata, and serrata, as well as Willde- 

 now's aquatica, and probably Louriero's cannabina, are no- 

 thing more than varieties of this species ; at least I have never 

 met with any other that can be compared wiMi them, and this 

 varies so much, even on the same plant, as to agree with them 

 all. 



10. F. scubrella. R. 



Shrubby, scandent. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, ob- 

 long, remotely serrulate-dentate, scabrous. Fruit axillary, 

 solitary, peduncled, turbinate, tubercled, of the size of an 

 olive, scales of the umbilicus ciliate. 



