﻿Smithsonian 
  Report, 
  1943. 
  — 
  Cook 
  

  

  PLATE 
  20 
  

  

  Fruiting 
  Stage 
  of 
  the 
  Assam 
  Fig 
  Tree. 
  

  

  Leaves 
  and 
  fruits, 
  natural 
  size, 
  from 
  a 
  large 
  tree 
  at 
  Port-au-Prince, 
  Haiti. 
  As 
  with 
  many 
  tropical 
  trees, 
  

   the 
  leaves 
  are 
  much 
  smaller 
  in 
  mature 
  trees 
  than 
  in 
  juvenile 
  stages. 
  These 
  leaves 
  are 
  only 
  3 
  to 
  4i 
  nches 
  

   long, 
  while 
  the 
  tree 
  in 
  plate 
  19 
  had 
  leaves 
  nearly 
  a 
  foot 
  long. 
  

  

  