556 MONOECIA MON\NDRIA. FicuS. 



peduncled, muneroiis about the base of the annual shoot, 

 round, hairy. 



A native of the mountains north of Bengal. 



46. F. polycarpa. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves oblong, some of them slightly waved, 

 or serrulate, both sides scabrous. Fruit in fascicles, from the 

 trunk, or woody branches. 



Introduced from the Moluccas into the Botanic garden at 

 Calcutta, in 1798, they are only small trees at present. In 

 fruit about the close of the rains. 



Trunk straight ; branches sub-erect. Bark of the ligne- 

 ous parts dark brown, and rather scabrous ; of the young 

 shoots a little scabrous, with a few short bristles rising single 

 from the centre of a' small umbilicated gland. Leaves alter- 

 nate, oblong, somewhat three-nerved; margins sometimes 

 entire, sometimes Avaved, or remotely serrulate, both sides 

 scabrous, from the same sort of bristles and glands as cover 

 the bark of the young parts ; a green gland in the axills of 

 the nerves, as in F. laciniata ; from four to six inches long. 

 Petioles coloured, from one to two inches long. Stipules as 

 in the oenus. Fruit in fascicles of as far twenty, from the 

 large branches, or trunk, peduncled, round, the size of a large 

 pea, scabrous with glands and short bristles. Umbilicus 

 small, round, and shut with scales. Calyx of the fruit none, 

 of the peduncles or bractes, obscure, small and crowded. 



47. F. macrophijlla. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves round-cordate, three-nerved. Fruit 

 collected in bundles near the root, turnip-shaped, from eight 

 to twelve-ribbed, hairy. 



1 have only found this species in the Company's Botanic 

 garden, where it is in fruit the whole year. It was originally 

 brought from Nepal. It is however, a native of Silhet and 

 Chiltagong also. 



Trunk short, lor it soon divides into a few, stout branches, 



