554 MONOECFA MONANDRIA. FlCUS. 



a dusky film. Leaves alternate, tending to be bifarious, 

 spreading", short-petioled, obliquely oval, obtusely pointed, a 

 little scolloped, scabrous, and very firm ; generally about 

 three or four inches long. Petioles short, curved, channelled. 

 Stipules small, as in the rest of the family. Fruit axillary, 

 paired, peduncled, when ripe the size of a pea, and yellow. 

 Calyx of the fruit none, of the peduncles three-leaved, small. 

 The leaves are used to polish ivory. 



41. F. asperrima. Roxb. 



Leaves oval, often scolloped, very scabrous. Fruit axil- 

 lary, paired, peduncled, round, downy. 



Teregam. Rheed. Mai. iii. 60. 



Teliny, Karakar-booda. 



A large tree, a native of moist valleys. 



Trunk erect. Branches numerous, spreading into a large 

 shady head. Branchlets rust-coloured, scabrous. Leaves 

 alternate, about the extremities of the branchlets petioled, 

 broad, oval, obtusely pointed, sometimes notched, and even 

 lobate, very scabrous, a little wrinkled, three-nerved, from 

 four to six inches long. Petioles about an inch long", scab- 

 rous. Stipules as in the family. Fruit axillary, paired, pe- 

 duncled, downy, size of a gooseberry, when ripe yellow. 



42. F. tuberculata. R. 



Leaves short-petioled, oblong, entire, acute, rough. Fruit 

 in pairs, peduncled, roundish, the size of a large pea, tuber- 

 cled, the umbilicus elevated. 



Teling. Kouda-joovee. 



A native of the mountains of Coromandel, where it grows 

 to be a small very ramous tree. 



43. F. anguslifolia. R. 



Leaves sub-opposite, lanceolate, smooth, acute. Fruit 

 axillary, paired, long-peduncled, turbinate, smooth. 

 A large tree, a native of the Circar mountains. 



