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generally by threes, which subdivide irregularly, and spread 

 in every direction. Bark brown and considerably scabrous. 

 The tree rarely exceeds twenty feet in height, and spreads as 

 much. Leaves alternate, petioled, round-cordate, entire, be- 

 tween obtuse and pointed, three-nerved, above smooth, deep 

 green, marked with some white dots; below very pale, some- 

 what downy, and reticulate with many transverse small 

 veins; from twelve to eighteen inches long, and nearly as 

 broad. Peiioles round, from three to six inches long. Sti- 

 pules within the leaves, as in the other species. Fruit pe- 

 duncled, fully as large or larger than the common fig, collect- 

 ed in branches of from six to twenty, on projecting tubero- 

 !!;ities on the trunk, and lower parts of the largest branches, 

 they are turnip-shaped, hairy, glandular, and marked Avitli 

 from eight to twelve ridges running from the base to the 

 apex. Calyx three-leaved, pressing upon the fruit. Umbi- 

 licus very large and closed with innumerable heart-shaped, 

 acutescales, some few of which often extend to some distance 

 round its mouth. Floicers, only females found, I could not 

 observe i\\\y perianth ; the stigma single, hairy, of a beautiful 

 rose-colour. 



The fruit is eaten by the natives in their curries where the 

 tree is indigenous ; every part of it is replete with much, very 

 tenaceous, milky juice, which flows abundantly from fresh 

 wounds. 



48. F. lanceoluta, of Dr. Buclianan. 



Shrubby. Leaves lanceolate, smooth, entire. Fruit in 

 fascicles near the root, as well as on the trunk and larger 

 branches, pedunclcd, verrucose, compressed, turbinate, with 

 the umbilicus in the bottom of a deep concavity. 



A native of Chittagong, and from thence sent by Dr. Bu- 

 chanan to this garden in 1798, where it produces fruit, more 

 (»r less, the whole year round ; but chiefly about the begin- 

 ning of the rains. 



Trunk scarcely any, but many ascending branches issuing 



