622 



■ Preserved figs and " fig-cake " are imported into the United 

 Kingdom from Turkey, Portugal, Spain, France, Algeria, Greece 

 and the United States. 



i?e/.— Richerche sulla Natura del Caprifico e del Fico e 

 sulla. Caprificazione, Gasparrini, pp. 1-96, pis. i.-viii (Naples, 

 1845). — — " Caricae," in Pharmacographia, Fluckiger & Han 



bury, pp. 542-544 (Macmillan & Co. London, 1879). " Ficus 



nca," 



Watt 



Fig," in Fruit Growers' Gmde, Wright, ii. pp. 170-200 



(Virtue & Co. Ltd. London, 1802). Fig Culture : Edible Figs : 



Their Cultui'e and Curing, Gustav Eisen, U.S. Dept. Agric. Div. 

 of Pomology, Bull. No. 5, 1897, pp. 1-32, including "Fig 



Culture in the Gulf States," Earle, pp. 23-32. " Smyrna Fig 



Culture in the United States," Howard, in Year Book, U.S. 



Dept. Agric. 1900, pp. 79-106, illustrated. The Fig: Its 



History, Culture and Curing, Gustav Eisen, U.S. Dept. Agric. 

 Div. of Pomology, Bull. No. 9, 1901, pp. 1-317; pis. i.-xv, 



figs. 91, with a bibhography. The Fig in Georgia, Starnes, 



State Coll. Agric, Georgia Exp. St. Bull. No. 61, Nov. 1903, 



pp. 49-74. Notes on Fig Cultivation in Southern India, 



Subba Rao, Dept. of Agric. Madras, Bull. No. 57, 1908, pp. 



135-141. " Ficus Carica," in Comm. Prod. India, Watt, 



pp. 537-538. "The PolHnation of the Smyrna Fig," Agric. 



News, Barbados, x. Aug. 19th, 1911, p. 266.^ The Wild Fig 



and Its Relation to the Capri-fig and the Cultivated Fig, Tschirch 



' & Ravasini, in Comptes Rendus, chi, 1911, pp. 885-888. 



" Caprification of Smyrna Figs," Tribolet, in Agric. Journ. 

 Union South Africa, iii. Feb. 1912. dd. 247-256 i 1 1 n stra f Prl 



,Fig Growing in the South Atlantic and Gulf States, Gould, 

 U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1031, 1919, pp. 1-45. 



Ficus discifera, Warb.; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 2, p. 196. 



Vernac. Jiames.—Wa: (Katagum, Dalziel) ; Kaurduk (Nubia, 

 Broun). 



4 



Katagum, and known from Nubia, Upper Nile and Uganda. 

 Fruit edible, Katagum (Dalziel, No. 330, Herb. Kew). 

 A medium sized or large tree. 



4- 



I 



Ficus dryepondtiana, Gentil ; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 2, 

 p. 127. 



III.— Rev. Hort. Beige, 1906, p. 85. 



Cameroons, Gaboon, and Belgian Congo. 



Leaves used in native medicine as ca cure for plague, Belgian 



Afr 



quickly 



mended for outdoor decoration in summer (Gentil, Rev. Hort. 

 Beige, I.e.). The leaves are 9-13 in. long, 3-4 in. I 



green 



Cultivated 



KeA\ 



at Brussels. 



