5G0 MONOECTA MONANDRIA. FlCUS. 



51. F. congesta. Roxb. 



Arboreous, smooth. Leaven petioled, oblong-, entire, 

 smooth. /^/v;?7 rountlish turbinate, sessile, heaped on radical, 

 and cauline, short, leafless, ramous branchlets, or panicles. 



Mussu of the Malays at Amboyna, where it is indigenous, 

 though by no means like that figured in the Qbtli Table of 

 Riimph. Herb. Amb. vol. iii. under the same Malay name. 



Introduced into the Botanic garden at Calcutta in 1802, 

 and in 1809. They are now from eight to twelve feet high, 

 M'ith a straight trunk, branches few, clothed with dark brown, 

 now while young trees, smooth bark. 



Leaves opposite, and alternate, short-petioled, oblong, en- 

 tire, smooth, deep green ; about six inches long, and about 

 three broad. Fruit short-ped uncled, sometimes a single one 

 or two are found in the superior axills, but by far the most 

 common on large compound racemes or panicles projecting 

 from the trunk, and far the most near the root. They are 

 about the size of a filbert, turbinate, smooth. Stamina single. 

 Stigma sessile, bright red. 



52. F. racemijera. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves alternate, cordate, crenulate. Fruit 

 on compound, glomerate racemes, from the woody part of the 

 tree, below the leaves. 



Caprificus amboinensis. Rnmph. Amb. iii. t. 93. 



A native of Sumatra, from thence introduced into the Bo- 

 tanic garden by Dr. Charles Campbell. The trees are small, 

 and in fruit most part of the year. Leaves deciduous during 

 the cold season. 



Trunk straight, tapering. Bark smooth, dark greenish 

 brown. Branches very numerous, and spreading in every di- 

 rection ; young parts smooth. Leaves alternate, petioled, cor- 

 date, crenate, from three to five-nerved, smooth on both sides, 

 from six to twelve inches long. Petioles round, smooth, 

 scarcely half the length of the leaves. Stipules xvithiix the 

 leaves, caducous. Racemes often compound, or decompound, 



