146 Dr. FiîANCis Hamilton's Connnentanj 



latérales inseruntur, glandiilam habent parvam plaiiain, 

 quam in A va non innotui. Fructus maturus magnitudine 

 Grossularia? ovatus, flavus, ore sïepius quinquedentato. 



This last plant, on account of the erectness of the stem, comes 

 nearest the J uUi Teregat/i, from which it differs chietly in being 

 rougher and in having smaller fruit ; but I must confess that 

 these appear to me slight circumstances for establishing distinct 

 species. 



Willdenow, wishing perhaps to avoid the ambiguity of two 

 plants having been named Ficiis Iwtcroplnjlla, abandoned this 

 name altogether ; and for the plant so named by the younger 

 Linnoeus, that is, the Valli Teregam, adopts Kœnig's specific 

 name aqitai/ca {Sp. PL iv. 1133.), which leads me rather to 

 suspect that his specimens belonged to the plant which I have 

 called Ficus dcnticulata ; for this groAvs in places which are 

 occasionally ininidated : but Rheede says that the J^alli Tere- 

 gam grows in woods. It must be also observed, that Willdenow 

 did not see the figs of his plant, on the form of which the diffe- 

 rence between the Ficus deiiticulata and the Valli Teregam chietly 

 depends. M. Poiret however {Enc. Meth. Sup. ii. 648.), and 

 Dr. Roxburgh {Jlort. Beng. 65.) retain the name lieteroplnjlla 

 for the Valli Teregam, the Ficus heterophijlla of JM. Lamarck 

 being by M. Poiret called Ficus rufescens. 



On the whole, the Ficus denticulata, F. rcpens, and F. aquatica 

 are distinguished by circumstances of no great consequence ; 

 and perhaps the F. truncata of AVilldenow {Sp. Fl. iv. 1132.) is 

 not very materially different ; and all are nearly connected with 

 the -F. Grossulariuides of Ijurman, now almost forgotten {Enc. 

 Meth. Sup. ii. 657.), although it was the species first introduced 

 into the modern system of botany. 



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