562 MONOECIA MONANDRIA. FicUS. 



places, where the soil is moist and rich, common about Cal- 

 cutta. 



Trunk erect, seldom as thick as a man's body. Branches 

 opposite, sub-erect. Bark scabrous, ash-coloured. Young 

 shoots scabrous, and covered with much short white hair, 

 piped, and interrupted at the insertion of the leaves, as in the 

 Bamboo. Leaves opposite, short, round, petioled, oblong-, 

 slightly serrate, of a firm, scabrous texture, shining above, 

 downy below, and most beautifully reticulate, one of each 

 pair is always considerably smaller than the other ; they are 

 from five to nine inches long. Fn«7 on the young shoots 

 axillary and peduncled, in the naked woody branches racem- 

 ed, round, about the size of a large nutmeg, covered with 

 much short, white hair, several equi-distant ridges running 

 from the umbilicus to the base. Racemes, and trades as in 

 ¥, glomerata, only here simple. Calyx of the fruit three- 

 leaved. Flowers, a few round the inside of the mouth of the 

 navel. Filament or peduncles single, with a proper, three- 

 parted perianth surrounding the middle. Female Jlowers nu- 

 merous. Peduncles long. Perianth none. Style and stigma 

 placed together on the side of the germ, funnel-formed. 



This species is productive of much tenaceous milky juice 

 on being wounded. The fruit is not often eaten, nor is the 

 tree used for any purpose that I know of. 



55. F. damona. Kbn. Mss. Vahl. En. PL ii. 198. 



Shrubby. Leaves generally opposite, cuneate, oblong, 

 and oblong-pointed, serrate, above scabrous, downy under- 

 neath, with a green gland in the axills of the veins. Fruit 

 in pairs on long radical racemes, above very hairy, of the size 

 of a nutmeg. 



A native of the sandy lands near the sea on the coast of the 

 Tanjore Country. From thence Dr. Rottler sent plants to 

 this garden where they produce fruit, all the year round. In 

 its native barren soil it grows to be a stout ramous shrub, or 

 small tree. 



