FicuS. MONOECIA MONANDRIA. 551 



35. F. infectoria. WilliL iv. 1137. 



Leaves ovate-oblong-, acute, waved, smootli. Fruit pair- 

 ed, axillary, sessile, round, smooth, white. 



Placsha (Ph^cksha.) Asiat. Res. iv. 310. 



Beng. Pakwr. 



Tsjakela. Rheed. Mai. iii. t. 64. 



F. Tsjakela. Burm. Fl. Ind. 227. 



A large and most beautiful tree with a far extended un- 

 commonly dense head ; a native of Bengal, I never met with 

 it on the Coromandel coast. The trunk is large, and irregu- 

 lar like that of F. religiosa, sometimes dropping- roots of con- 

 siderable magnitude from the trunk and branches. 



Bark pretty smooth, of a brownish ash-colour, very tough, 

 and peeling off in long slips. Leaves alternate, petioled, ob- 

 long-cordate, pointed, waved, smooth on both sides, with few 

 veins; from four to six inches long, and from two to four 

 broad. Stipules about two inches long, slender, grooved, with 

 a coloured gland round their apices. Fruit paired, axillary, 

 sessile, the size of a pea, roundish, pretty smooth, when ripe 

 white. 



36. F. rapijbrmis. Roxh. 



Arboreous, smooth. Leaves solitary and in pairs, petiol- 

 ed, oval, pointed, entire, a ring of scabrous specks below the 

 insertion of the stipules, /^rwif axillary, solitary, short-pe- 

 duncled, turnip-shaped. 



Introduced into the Botanic garden at Calcutta, from the 

 Moluccas in 1798. In five years the young trees were from 

 ten to twenty feet high, and produced fruit about the close of 

 the rains, in September and October. 



Trunk straight ; bark ash-coloured and smooth. Branches 

 many, spreading, the tender parts covered with smooth green 

 bark. Leaves scattered, solitary, and also sometimes in pairs, 

 petioled, of various shapes, but nearly oval and pointed is the 

 most prevailing one, with the margins entire, smooth on both 

 sides, from four to eight inches long, and about half that in 



