NOTICED IN The preceding tour. 379 



from ten to twelve paired ; leaflets sessile, from 

 thirty-two to thirty-four pair, halved longitudinal- 

 ly, oblong, about three-eighths of an inch long by 

 one-eightli, downy. Petioles and peduncles down3% 

 one globular gland on each common petiole, an 

 inch below the leaves, and another similar, but 

 smaller, between the terminating pair of leaflets- 

 Stipules lateral, paired, ovate, acuminated, one 

 nerved, veiny, downy, large. Those on the pe- 

 , duncles resemble' them, and are perhaps bracts. 

 The flowers resemble tliose of M. lebbeck. It comes 

 nearest to M. arbor ea. 



POLYGAMIA TRIOECIA. 



Tlcus-laininosa. — An humble species, growing among 

 detached rocks in a small water course, and other 

 moist places along the valley of the Koa-mdlah. 

 The stem is procumbent, shrubliy, diffuse.. Leaves 

 opposite, lanceolate, entire ; fruit laminous. The 

 natives collect th'e leaves to feed their cattle with, 

 and call it Chancherree. 



Ficus 2. — A slender bushy kind, in dry elevated si- 

 tuations, near Dosa. Leaves alternate, on short 

 hairy petioles, ovate, pointed, entire, thickish; 

 with piominent reticulated veins. Peduncies axil- 

 lary, solitary, cylindrical, short, hairy ; fruit glo- 

 bular, about the size of a marrow-fat pea, downy. 

 Calyx beneath, three parted, dov^ny ; it bears 

 some resemblance to F, puviila. 



Ficus 3. — Growing in the same situation with the 

 above, a stronger bush. Leaves alternate, few, 

 distant, oblong ; sometimes much rounded above, 

 but acuminated entire, rough, three nerved, with 

 distant veins running into each other rvlong the 

 margin of the leaf: petioles very short, hairy. 

 Fruit axillary, solitary, sessile, rough, globular, 

 about the size of a small gooseberry. Comes nearest 

 to /'. Microcarpq. 



Ficus 4. — A large tree in the forests along the Koa- 

 jiullah, tliough on c!evated situations. Leaves 

 ^vate,. obtuse, entire, large, downy. Peduncles 



variabl >• 



