552 MONOECIA MONANDRIA. FtCUS. 



breadth. Petioles ahout an inch only, flat on the upper side ; 

 a waxy gland on each side of their insertion. Stipules within 

 the leaves, just below their insertion a ring of permanent sca- 

 brous dots surround the branchlet. Fruit axillary, solitary, 

 short-peduncled, size of a small medlar, turnip-shaped, con- 

 cave at both apex and base, dotted with small white scabrous 

 specks. Calyx of the peduncle none; of the fruit two, or 

 three-leaved; leaflets smoW, thick and gland ulous. Umbili- 

 cus shut with numerous scales. 



37. F. excelsa. Vahl. en. pi. ii. 195. 



Arboreous, smooth. Leaves short-petioled, bifarious, ob- 

 liquely-oblong, smooth. Fruit solitary or paired, peduncled, 

 sub-turbinate. Calyx of the peduncle tridentate; navel 

 round. 



Atti meer alou. Rlieed. Mai. iii. t, 58. 



Introduced from the Moluccas, into this garden. The fruit 

 appears about the beginning of the rains. 



Trunk and branches straight ; as yet the trees are not more 

 than ten or twelve feet high, and spread but little. Bark 

 smooth, of a greenish ash-colour. /.eat;es alternate, bifarious, 

 unequally oblong, sometimes pointed, entire, smooth above 

 and slightly scabrous underneath, the middle nerve nearer 

 the upper margin than the under one ; about six inches long, 

 and about three broad. Fruit axillary, solitary or paired, pe- 

 duncled, nearly round, the size of a cherry, smooth, when ripe 

 yellow. Calyx of the peduncle three-toothed, of the fruit 

 none. C/mii'/icws small, round, shut on the inside with minute 

 scarcely visible scales. 



38. F. comosa, Willd. iv. 1148. Corom.pl. ii. JV. 125. 

 Leaves oblong-ventricose, pointed, smooth. Fruit in pairs, 



generally terminal, turbinate, smooth, red. 



Teling, Pootra-j oovee. 



This is a pretty large tree, a native of the Circar moun- 

 tains. It has a large spreading, very branchy shady top, the 



