620 



A shrub or small tree ; very ornamental 20-35 ft. high, trunk 

 not rarely decked up to the height of a man with 5-12 pendulous 

 panicles, all laden with bright rosy receptacles, 60-80 in some 

 panicles and thus presenting an aspect of the highest fruitfulness, 

 Angola (Hiern, I.e.) ; a tree by water-courses^ Katagum ; figs in 

 abundant branched clusters on the old w^ood (Dalziel, Herb; 

 Kew). The receptacles are variously described as about ^ in. 

 long (Hiern, I.e.) ; |-1 in. long (FL Trop. Afr. I.e.) and nearly 

 the size of a walnut, ripe in October at 7° 21' S. lat. (Speke & 

 Grant, Herb. Kew). 



Ficus capreaefolia, Del. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 2, p. 107. 



III. — Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 1848, t. 5b. {F. antitheto- 

 pJiylla); Sim, For. Fi. & For. Res. Port. E, Afr. t. 90, f. C 

 (F. palustris); Engl. & Drude, Veg. Erde, ix. Part 1, p. 118, 

 f. 100; Warburg & De Wildeman, Ficus Fl. Co^go, t. 22. 



Vernac. name. — Umbharanta (Chindao, Gazaland, Swyn - 



nerton). 



Katagu 



Nile Land, and East Africa. 



Leaves used as sand-paper for pohshing assegai handles, in 

 Gazaland (Swyimerton, Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 1911-12, p. 205). 



Kata 



Kew) 



Picus Carica, Linn., Sp, PI. (1753) p. 1059. 



A deciduous tree, about 20 ft. high. Leaves alternate, 

 cordate 3-5 lobed, scabrous. Fruit a fleshy receptacle — con- 

 taininor wdthin it the male and female flowers — arising in tlie 

 axils of the leaf. Seeds (achenes) small. 



Ill, — Lam. Encycl. t. 861 ; Linne, Amoenitates Acad, i. t. 2 

 (seedlings) ; Gaertn, Fruct. Sem. PL ii, t. 91 ; Schk. Handb. t. 

 358 ; Duhamel, Traite des Arbes, iv. tt. 53-59 (fr.) ; Plenck, 

 Ic. t. 736 ; Diet. Sc. Nat. t. 285 ; Hayne, Darst. Beschr. Gewaehse, 

 ix. t. 13; Risso, Hist. Nat. Prod. Europ. Merid. ii ; Nees von 

 Esenbeck, Plant. Medic, Diisseld. t. 97 ; Guimpel, Abbild. 

 Beschr. t. 69; Woodville, Med. Bot. iv (1832) t. 244 ; Stephenson 

 & Churchill, Med. Bot. iii. t. 154; Mag. Bot. & Card, i (1836) 

 t. 32, f. 1 ; Gallesio, Pomona, Italy, iv. including '' Caprifico '* 

 and many cultivated varieties ; Burnett, PL Utih i. t. 10a ; 

 Schnizlein, Ic. t. 92, f, 24 (fr.) ; Rchb. Ic. FL Germ. xii. t. 659; 

 Berg. & Schmidt, Darst. & Beschr. Pharm. iii. t. 19a; Bentl. & 

 Trimen, Med, PL t. 228 ; Zippel, Ausl. Handsels Nahrpfl. t. 53 ; 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. (1888) t. 46; Sauvaigo, Les Cult. Medit. 

 p. 225, f. 96; Howard, Year Book, U.S. Dept. Agric. 1900, 

 tt. 1-8: Bailev, Cycl. Hort. (1915) t. 42 (" Celeste " fig tree). . 



Sm\ 



Nativ 



cultivated in India, Baluch- 



istan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, S. Europe, N, Africa, Ame 



many 



