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Ficus elastica Roxb., India Rubber Fig, Asiatic, a large rapidly growing 

 tree with broad entire lustrous dark green, smooth, many-veined leaves, is com- 

 monly planted for shade and for ornament; there is a very large specimen at 

 Par-la- Ville, Hamilton. The race with variegated foliage is occasionally grown. 



Ficus aurea Nutt., Golden Fig, native of Florida, Cuba and the Bahamas, 

 has oblong to narrowly obovate or ovate leaves 4' long or less and small 

 yellowish to red fruits, sessile on the twig; a fine tree at Mt. Langton. 



Ficus lyrata Warb., Lyrate-leaved Fig, African, is a tree with cori- 

 aceous, obovate strongly few-veined leaves 10'-15' long, 6'-10' wide, narrowed 

 at or below the middle, cordate at the base, with short stout petioles, the obo- 

 void figs nearly 1' long, was grown at Sunny Lands in 1914. 



Ficus padifolia H.B.K., Narrow-leaved Fig, Central American, has ob- 

 long-lanceolate, acuminate leaves 2Y—4i' long, narrowed at the base and slender- 

 petioled, its fruit short-stalked, subglobose figs about 4" in diameter. A tree 

 was seen at the Agricultural Station and another at Orange Valley in 1914. 



Ficus benghalensis L., Banyan, Asiatic, is a large tree, described as be- 

 coming up to 100° high, with broadly ovate, coriaceous, strongly few-veined 

 leaves 4-7' long, rounded or short-pointed at the apex, rounded or subeordate 

 at the base, its subglobose, sessile fruit 6"-8" in diameter. A fine specimen, 

 about 60° high, stands in a corner of the Public Garden, St. George's. 



Ficus aurata Miq., recorded by Lefroy as planted at Mt. Langton in 1875, 

 and healthy in 1877, does not appear to exist there at present. 



Ficus lentiginosa Yahl, the large Wild Fig tree growing at Montrose, 

 erroneously known in Bermuda as ' * Banyan, ' ' is, apparently, this widely dis- 

 tributed tree of the West Indies; it has short-stalked subglobose fruit 3" long; 

 its smooth ovate, petioled leaves about 4' long seem just the same as those of 

 F. lentiginosa. The Montrose tree in 1914 was about 25° high, its branches 

 widely spreading over a circle some 75° in diameter, with many aerial roots. 



Ficus pumila L., Creeping Fig, Asiatic, a small-leaved vine, creeping on 

 walls by aerial roots, sending out horizontal branches with larger ovate or 

 elliptic leaves 2'-3' long, its fruit about 2' long, obovoid, is planted for orna- 

 ment and interest ; the fruit is borne on the branches which bear the larger leaves. 



Cecropia peltata L., Trumpet-tree, West Indian, is a conspicuous tree up 

 to 50° high, with hollow, septate trunk, the large, peltate, 5-9-lobed leaves 1°- 

 2° broad, green above, white-tomentose beneath, the small dioecious flowers in 

 clustered aments l'-2' long; a fine specimen at Bellevue. 



Toxylon pomiferum Raf. {Madura aurantiaca Nutt.), Osage Orange, 

 North American, a small thorny tree, with glossy ovate or oblong pointed 

 leaves, the fruit a tubercled yellow syncarp often 6' in diameter, has occa- 

 sionally been planted for hedges, as at Beverley, Paget. 



Artocarpus incisa L., Breadfruit, Polynesian, with large pinnately lobed 

 leaves, and an immense edible syncarp, a very important food in tropical 

 regions, has been planted at times, but did not become luxuriant. 



Artocarpus integrifolia L., Jackfruit, East Indian, is recorded by Lefroy 

 as growing about 1875 at Par-la-Yille, Hamilton, and mentioned also by Verrill 

 and by Jones, but I have been unable to learn of any tree in Bermuda now. 



Artocarpus Lakodcha Roxb., Lakoocha, Indian, a large spreading tree, 

 with velvety young twigs, elliptic to obovate, petioled, rounded or abruptly 

 acuminate leaves 4-8' long, smooth above, finely pubescent and reticulate- 

 veined beneath, the minute flowers borne in dense heads on the twigs, the 

 staminate oblong, about 1' long, the pistillate globose, the edible fruit 2'-3' in 

 diameter, is represented by a tree about 35° high, near Hungry Bay. 



Chlorophora tinctoria (L.) Gaudich. (Madura xantlioxylum Endl.), 

 Fustic, West Indian, was recorded by Lefroy as growing in Paget gardens; 

 he cites the name "Tamarind Plum" as applied to it, as does Verrill. 



