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bark is pretty smooth, aiul asli-coloured, the branchlets are 

 very slender, much sub-divided, and often pendulous. 



Leaves alternate, petioled, oval, obliquely-pointed, entire, 

 firm, smooth and shining, from two to four inches long. Pe- 

 tioles very slender, about an inch long, grooved. Fruit ter- 

 minal, or in the exterior axills, paired, sessile, size of a goose- 

 berry ; apex depressed wi^h the umbilicus rising a little in 

 the centre, which is shut up with the scales ; contracted at 

 the base, something like the neck of a bottle, smooth, when 

 ripe of a rich ileep yellow colour. Cabjx of the fruit three- 

 leaved. Proper perianth of the male and female corollets, 

 (there are no hermaphrodite that I could find) three-leaved ; 

 leaflets lanceolate. Filaments single. Anlliers two-lobed. 

 Style long, slender. Stigma filiform, two-cleft. 



J^ote. 1 observed a hood over the rudiments of the young- 

 fruit, which fell off as soon as they began to increase in size. 



39. F. urticij'olia. R. 



Leaves cordate, three-nerved, serrate, hispid above, downy 

 underneath. Frnit in axillary pairs, long-ped uncled, turbi- 

 binate in a rather remote three-leaved calyx, downy, the size 

 of a small gooseberry. 



A native of the mountains north of Bengal. 



40. F. ampelos. Kon. Mss. 



Branches dropping fibrous roots. Leaves obliquely 

 oval, scabrous. Fruit paired, axillary, pedicelled, pisiform, 

 smooth, yellow. 



Teliny. Tella-barinka. 



A large tree, a native of mountainous countries chiefly. 



Trunk remarkably short, but very thick, and sometimes so 

 completely ornamented with small, very leafy branchlets, as 

 to hide it entirely; a most beautiful tree, thus embellished is 

 to be seen at Ganjam. Top very large, spreading to a great 

 distance ; 1 have seen small pendulous, filiform roots, issuing 

 from the larger branches. Bark smooth, ash-coloured with 

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