(150 ft.) and anastomosing, aerial roots descending, leaves coriaceous, i ft. or more 

 long : figs, ^ in., yellow, taken by birds. 



F. glomerata of Neoinorphe-%(tQX\ovi, with staminale flower of 2 stamens. A 

 common large deciduous tree in ravines and damp places ; all types of flower in same 

 receptacle, fruits nearly globose, \\ in. diam., clustered on the leafless branches and 

 spurs of older wood. Commonly full of insects ; taken by monkeys and deer. 



F. macrocarpa, a climbing shrub of Hill-forest, with large fruits to 2\ in. diam., 

 white spotted green, clustered on the old wood. 



F. Carica, common Fig {Eusyce-iftQ.(\ox^, more primitive in the individual 

 flowers, but much further advanced in seasonal adaptation (the form farthest north) 

 to a colder extra-tropical climate, with limiting case of insect-association and marked 

 deciduous habit. A large tree of E. Medit. and W. Asia, cult., growing freely from 

 cuttings, and fruiting as a shrub. Staminate flower with perianth of 5 teeth and 

 stamens 5 (4-7) : carpellary flower with long style, 2 mm., and one stigmaiic lobe 

 rudimentary : Gall-flowers have styles of half the length, correlated with that of 

 ovipositor of Blaslophaga wasp. Fruits as minute drupes with sharply angular 

 sclerosed ' stone '. 



In RIedit. region 3 crops of figs follow the annual succession, and 3 generations of 

 gall-wasps, (i) Spring-crop {Profichi) of basal gall-flowers and staminate flowers 

 produced later near the ostiole, borne on the old wood with the young leaves. 

 (2) Summer crop on new growth, of few gall-flowers and mostly carpellary flowers, 

 giving the edible fruit-crop. (3) Autumn set with gall-flowers and a few carpellary. 

 The 3 crops act practically as staminate, carpellary fruiting, and a perennating stock, 

 respectively. Only cross-fertilized figs of (2) give good commercial 'figs' with fertile 

 seeds. Seedlings come up as ' Wild Figs' with Profichi fruit. Cuttings oi Profichi- 

 branches remain as staminate ' Caprifigs ', used for pollination. Cuttings of fruiting 

 figs (= var. domestica) cult, in this country, without Blaslophaga, give inferior but 

 edible pseudocarps without seeds. 



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