76 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892. 

 Description of Plate B. {ajemale plant). 



1. Central brancli bearing leaves and a solitary female flower. 



2. Growing end of a branch to the left of the reader. 



3. Top row of fruits (4) showing different colours in the order of 

 development from green to red. 



4. Tx'ansverse section of the fruit through its centre with the 

 green pulp and seed surrounded by the yellow rind. 



(To he continued.) 



HEREDITARY DISEASE OF THE BRANCHES AND 

 LEAYES OF FICU8 T8IELA. 



By Dr. J. C. Lisboa. 



(Read before the Bombay Natural History Society on 

 1st March, 1892.) 



You will notice on the table three specimens of branches belonging 

 to a fig-tree known in this country by the name of Pipree. Speci- 

 men No. 1 bears large leaves. No. 2 is an abnormal branch bearing 

 smaller leaves though of the same shape as No. 1. No. 3 is a 

 branch destitute of leaves, in fact a dead one. There are also on the 

 table three photographs, representing healthy, diseased, and dead 

 branches. 



Description. — Ficus Tsiela, Roxb., Fl. hid. III. 549. Pipree, is a 

 large tree, trunk greenish and smooth. Leaves long petioled, 

 2-4^ in. long, broadly -ovate or ovate -lanceolate, cuspidate or with an 

 abrupt acumination, entire, smooth on both sides and shining, specially 

 above, and marked with numerous parallel veins, generally from 

 8 to 10 pairs. Fruit paired, crowded on the axils of upper leaves, 

 sessile, somewhat turbinate, smooth, size of a cherry, purple when 

 ripe. Said to be common on the Grhats. 



Is extensively planted as an avenue tree in Poena, and along the 

 road leading from that place to Katraj Ghat, and thence to Mahable- 

 shwar. The blades of the leaves of the planted trees, seen by me in 



