FICUS. 399 
In aquosis ad margines syl varum. 
Has. Assam, Gowahatti : December. 
This species comes very near to Ficus laminosa, especially in 
the stipulation and shape of the leaves, it is the only one with 
opposite leaves yet known ; Jenkins tells me that Ficus carica 
has been grafted on it. 
3 I consider this genus to prove absolutely that stipule 
. * are mere scales of buds, and that they are not necessarily 
[ double organs. 
In this speceis if they are double orgaus, we must assume 
their coalescence, of which there is no trace. 
The fruit of Ficus is entirely analogous to those Compositz, 
Whose receptacle is quite naked, the outer ones being involu- 
cra, and as it were carried up and closed over the re- 
ceptacle. 
22. Ficus rubifolia, Gr. Pl. DLVII. Fig. III. 
Scandens radicansque hirsuta scabra. 
Folia cordato-ovata indivisa vel tri quinque loba more 
Rubi vel Hederz. í 
Squame persistentes duz membranacez. 
à Fructus longe pedunculata ovato unceolato hirsuta apice 
Pedunculi uncialis petiolas excedentes, apice bracteati. 
F. heteroplylle accedens. 
Has. Assam Gowahatti. 
23, Ficus apocyneoideus, Gr. 
_ Frutex repens in arboribus caule, petiolis, foliisque subtus 
pubescent, 
.. Petioli breves 4 uncialis supra plani. 
. Folia opposita! lanceolata, vel sepius lanceolato-ovata 
obtuse acuminata, integra chartacea, supra glabra. Venatio 
Ordinaria, secondariis distincti nexis stomatose portion in 
