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slightly serrate, glandular in the axils of the veins beneath, shining 

 ahove,. downy beneath : fmit axiUary and peduncled, racemed on 

 the naked, woody branches, round, about the size of a large nutmeg, 

 covered with short, white hair, with several equi-distant ridges. 



Banks of rivulets in the Peninsula. 



(4) C. GLOMEEATA. fMiq.) 



Ident. Miq. 1. c. — Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 243. 



Syn. Ficus glomerata, Roxh. 



Spec. Chau. Large tree : trunk crooked, thick and high, bark 

 of a rusty-greenish colour and rough : leaves alternate, petioled, 

 oblong or broad-lanceolate, tapering equally to each end, entire, very 

 slightly 3-nerved, smooth on both sides : racemes compound or 

 panicled, issuing immediately from the trunk; or large branches : 

 fruit pedicelled, nearly as large as the common figs, clothed with 

 soft down. 



Western Coast. 



(5) C. ncEMOinjM. fMiq.J 



Ident. Miq. 1. c. Dalz. 1. c. p. 244. 



Syn. Ficus Doemona, Koen. Roxh. flor. Ind. III. p. 562. 



Engram. Wight 1. c. t. 641. 



Spec. Chak. Shrubby: leaves generally opposite, cuneate-oblong, 

 pointed, serrate, scabrous above, downy beneath, with a green gland 

 in the axils of the veins : fruit for the most part in pairs in radical 

 withering racemes, often underground, of the size of a large nutmeg, 

 obovate, very hairy, obscurely ridged. 



Western Coast. Peninsula. 



GEiroS II. EPICARPUEtJS. 



Dioecla Vetrandria. Sex: Syst: 



Gen. Chae. Flowers dioecious. Male. Spicate-amentaceous : 

 perianth 4-leaved, bibracteolate : stamens four: filaments elongated. 

 Female. Somewhat solitary : perianth 4-leaved, persistent, at 

 length increasing : ovary stalked, 1-celled : ovule one, amphitropal : 

 style lateral, deeply 2-cleft, segments filiform, stigmatose: berry 

 stalked with the perianth : seed parietal, orbiculate, compressed. 

 Lactescent, branched trees : trunk usually thorny : leaves alternate, 

 shortly petioled, oblong, serrulate : stipules subulate, deciduous. 



