FicUS. MONOECIA MONANDRIA. 549 



leaves a tremulous motion with the least wind. Stipules as 

 in the genus. Fruit paired, axillary, sessile, round, smooth, 

 when ripe of the size and appearance of a black cherry. 

 Calyx of the fruit three-leaved. JVavel closed with three 

 small scales. 



Obs. It approaches nearest to F. religiosa,oi any species I 

 know, yet is easily to be distinguished from it by the leaves 

 being narrower in proportion to the length, with much shorter 

 points, and instead of the lobes forming a sinus at the base, 

 there is a small degree of projection at the insertion of the 

 petiole. And in the second place by the fruit being perfectly 

 round, and not, as in religiosa, vertically compressed. 



32. F. Tsiela. 



Leaves long-petioled, ovate-oblong-, acute, polished ; veins 

 parallel and simple. Fruit paired, axillary, sessile, round- 

 turbinate. 



Tsiela. Rlieed. Mai. iii. /. 63. seems to be this tuee. 



Teling. Joovee, or Pedda-Joovee. 



This next to F. religiosa, is the largest species I know. Its 

 native station is the mountains, but it is also found every 

 where on the low lands planted with F. Indica and religiosa^ 

 where it grows to be nearly as large, and is equally shady. 



Bark smooth, greenish, no roots from the trunk, nor 

 branches. Leaves alternate, petioled, somewhat three-nerved, 

 ovate-oblong, pointed, most entire, firm, smooth on both sides, 

 shining, particularly on the upper side, with numerous, sim- 

 ple and parallel veins, from four to six inches long, and from 

 two to three broad. Petioles a little compressed, from one 

 to iwo inches long. Stipules as in the other species, but in 

 this they leave no durable cicatrice. Fruit paired, axillary, 

 sessile, a little inclining to be turbinate, smooth, the size of a 

 cherry, when ripe purple. Calyx of the fruit small, three- 

 leaved. Umbilicus shut up with scales. 



JSTote. Plukenet's figure, referred to by Linnoeus is good. 



From wounds in the bark there issues a little, pale, glu- 

 tinous, milky juice. 



