on the Horius Malabaricus, Part III. 131 



describes the fruit of his plant as plano-rofundi, which in Lin- 

 nœan language is depresso-globosi ; and both ^Villdenow and the 

 authors of the Encyclopédie agree in considering the plants dif- 

 ferent, 



M. Lamarck {Eue. Mcth. ii. 495.) suspected, although with 

 some doubt, that the Itti Are Alou might be his Ficua punctata ; 

 but Thunberg, properly rejecting this, calls it his Ficus nitida, 

 in which he is followed by M. Poiret (Enc. Meth. Sup. ii. 653.) 

 and AVilldenow {Sp. Fl. iv. 1145.). I think that I have seen the 

 tree on rocky hills both in the South of India and in the pro- 

 vince of Behar. Specimens of the former, with a drawing, I 

 gave to Sir J. E. Smith under the name of Ficus Condaravia, 

 from Konda [montana) and Ravi, a generic name in the Telinga 

 language ; and I have given to the library at the India House 

 specimens from Behar, where it is called Khota Fipar. I shall 

 here annex a description taken in the latter country. 



Arbor mediocris, lacte valdè scatens, ramulis obtusangulis gla- 

 bris. Folia alterna, subovata, basin versus aliquanclo sub- 

 cuneata, apicem versus saepius acumine brevissimo obtuso 

 angustata, integerrima, glabra, supra nitida, venis remotius- 

 culis etiam ultra submarginalem reticvdata, nervis apice 

 incurvis prope marginem cingentibus subcostata. Fetio- 

 lus depressiusculus, supra canaliculatus, glaber, brevissi- 

 mus. Stipula spathaceae, caducse. 



Fici gemina;, axillares, sessiles, pisiformes, nudaî, involucro 

 brevi trilobo crasso insidentes. 



In India gangetica radicantem non vidi ; sed in India australi, 

 ubi laetius crescebat, ramos habebat radicantes. 



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