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large branches, ramifications spreading- and jointed. Bractes 

 several surrounding the joints, two-fruited, at least there are 

 always the germs of two, but rarely both come to muturity. 

 Fruit pedicelled, nearly as large as common figs, clothed 

 with much soft down, when ripe of a rich orange colour, um- 

 bilicus closed with innumerable scales. Calyx of the fruit 

 small, three-leaved. 



The fruit is eaten by the natives. I have often tasted them, 

 but to me they are disagreeable. This species yields much 

 milky Juice. 



50. F. conglomerata. R, 



Arboreous. Leaves alternate, sub-semi-cordate, cuspidate, 

 rough and hard. Fruit roundish, tubercled, crowded on 

 long, procumbent, or drooping, decompound, cauline, leaf- 

 less branches. 



Borum of the natives of Chittagong, where the tree is indi- 

 genous. In the Botanic garden at Calcutta, it is loaded with 

 fruit the whole year. 



Trunk tolerably straight. Bark of a dirty olive colour. 

 Branches numerous, spreading in every direction ; bark of 

 the young shoots rough and hairy ; height of the trees in the 

 Botanic garden, now eleven years old, about twenty feet, and 

 they seem full grown. Leaves alternate, short-pelioled, by 

 far the greater part of them unequally long-cordate, while the 

 plants are young, serrulate ; when old, entire, firm, and very 

 scabrous, particularly on the upper surface ; from four to ten 

 inches long, and about half that in breadth. Stipules inter- 

 foliaceous, and caducous. Fruit, from the lower part of the 

 trunk of our trees issue numerous procumbent, diverging, or 

 drooping, ramous, leafless branches, crowded with numer- 

 ous, sessile, roundish, scaly, warted figs, about the size of a 

 large filbert with a large scaly umbilicus. Proper perianth 

 of the female of five, lanceolate leaflets. Male florets few, 

 monandrous, with a three-leaved perianth. 



