FicUS. MONOECIA MONANDRIA. 547 



cordate, acute, entire, in the bud hirsute, when expanded, 

 smooth, strongly marked with simple parallel veins. Peti- 

 oles short 'dnd raraentaceous. Fruit in short-peduncled, axil- 

 lary pairs, smooth, the size of" a small cherry, and red. 



A small tree, a native of ChiUagong, m here it produces 

 fruit during the rains. In drying, the leaves become particu- 

 larly glossy, while in the bud and until pretty well expand- 

 ed, the large simple parallel veins are very hairy. From the 

 branches roots descend as in F. Indica, and some other spe- 

 cies, but never grow to any size as in fndica. 



30. F. religiosa. Willd. iv. 1134. 



Leaves cordate, scollop-waved, cuspidate. Fruit in axil- 

 lary, sessile pairs, vertically compressed, smooth, black. 



Arcalu. Rlieed. Mai. i. t. 27. 



Sans. P/pp7da. See Asiat. Res. iv. 309. also Bodhi-dryo- 

 ma, Chwlrtdwla, Koonj?irashwnrt, Aswattha. 



Beng. Aswat, or Asood. 



Hind. Pip pal. 



Cinff. Bogaha. 



Telimj. Ra?. 



This very large tree is common in every part of India. I 

 have frequently met with it wild upon mountains, but it is 

 most common near houses, where it is planted for the sake of 

 the extensive, dark, grateful shade it yields. Flowering time 

 the hot season. 



Root spreading horizontally to a great extent, and very 

 near the surface of the earth, often on it, from the soil having 

 been washed away by rain. Trunk erect, in small trees round, 

 when large and old it becomes full of inequalities, i. e. 

 large perpendicular ridges and hollows, as if many trunks 

 were united ; its thickness is very various, the largest trees 

 that I have seen were about twenty feet in circumference but 

 short in proportion to that thickness, being rarely more than 

 twenty or twenty-five feet to the branches. Bark pretty 

 smooth, ash-coloured. Branches very numerous, spreading, 



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