548 MONOECIA MONANDRIA. FlCUS. 



and rising in every direction to a great distance and height. 

 Branchlets often pendulous. Leaves alternate, petioled, pen- 

 dulous, cordate, long, or slender, ensiform, pointed with the 

 margins scollop-waved, both sides perfectly smooth, the up- 

 per one of a deep shining green, about six inches long, of 

 which the narrow point occupies nearly two, deciduous dur- 

 ing the cold season. Petioles round, smooth, long, very slen- 

 der, whence the constant trembling of the leaves arising from 

 the most gentle air of wind, as in the aspen tree (Populus tre- 

 mula.) /S^ipjiZes sheathing, caducous. jP7'?«if paired, axil- 

 lary, sessile, vertically compressed; when ripe of the size and 

 colour of a small black cherry. Calyx of the fruit three- 

 leaved. 



Birds eat the fruit greedily. The wood like that of F. Indi- 

 ca is white, light, and soon perishes, of course it is not much 

 used. Next to the mulberry leaves I have found silk vvorms 

 like the young tender leaves of this tree. Much tenaceous 

 milky juice is discharged from fresh wounds made in the 

 bark. 



31. F. cordifolia. R. 



Leaves long, slender, petioled, ovate-cordate, waved, acu- 

 minate, glossy. Fruit paired, sessile, round, smooth, black. 



B€n(/. G?fy-aswut. 



Arbor Conciliorum. Rumpli. Amb. iii. t. 90. 



Found in the vicinity of Calcutta, where it grows to be a 

 large, very ramous, spreading tree. I never observed it on the 

 Coromandel coast. Like F. religiosa, which it most resem- 

 bles, the trunk is short ; while young round and straight, but 

 when old dee[)ly furrowed, as if composed of many coalesced 

 trunks. 



Bark smooth. Branches spreading, seldom radicating*. 

 Leaves petioled, ovate-cordate, waved, most entire, fine point- 

 ed, smooth and shining on both sides, somewhat three-nerv- 

 ed, with the veins less numerous and less distinct than in F. 

 religiosa. Petioles long, slender, nodding, giving to their 



