on the Hortiis Malabarkus, Part III. 133 



shall now describe a plant wliieh may perhaps be the Tsjerou 

 Meer Aloii, and of which I have given specimens to the library 

 at the India House {Cat. 241 G). 



Ficus undulata. 



Tsjerou Meer Alou. Ilort. Mai. iii. 71. t.56^. 



Rakhalpani Bengalensium. 

 Habitat in CamrupiV orientalis locis montosis. 



Arboi' magna, lactescens, ramulis nudis fuscis. Folia alterna, 

 oblonga, basi acutiuscula, apice acuminata, integerrima, 

 rigida, glabra, undulata, subtrinervia, subcostata, venis 

 minute reticulata. Fetiolus seniiteres, brevissimus, fuscus. 

 Stipula caducée. 



Racemiis axillaris, rigidus, simplex longitudine petioli apice 

 gemmiferus, fructu foliis e gemma prodeuntibus laterali, 

 Pedicelli gemini, unitiori, ancipites, glabri, receptaculo flo- 

 rum longiores. Bractece ad basin pedicellorum minutaî, tri- 

 phyllœ. Flos obovatus, glaber magnitudine Pisi niajoris. 



I did not see this tree sending roots from its branches ; but 

 even the Per Alou does not do this when planted in confined 

 situations and excluded from a free circulation of air. It remains, 

 however, yet to be determined whether the Tsjerou Meer Alou is 

 my Ficus undulata or the Ficus pijrifolia of INI. Lamarck, if it be 

 either. 



Katou Alou, p. 73. t.ol. 



Commeline supposed this to be the Ficus Indica of Clusius, 

 and the Ficus Indica foUis Mali Cotonci similibus, fructu ficubus 

 simili of Caspar Bauhin, that is, the Ficus Indica of the Greeks 

 and Romans ; and he supposed that it might be the same with 

 an American plant described by Rochefort. In my Commentary 

 on the Peralu {Linn. Trans, xiii. 488.) I have mentioned that 



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