Key to the shrubby and tree-like figs 



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A. Leaves alternafe. (B.) 



B. Leaves thick and leathery, green and smooth helow. (C.) 

 C. Leaves large, otlong, entire, with many side-veins. India 



Rubber Plant (543) — Fious eUstica. 

 C. Leaves entire or somewhat lobed with about 10 pairs of side- 

 veins. Variable-leaved Rubber Plant (544) — Ficus 

 er^cta. 

 C. Leaves with .5-7 side-veins and usually lobed like the white 



oak. Oak-leaved Pig • — Ficus quercif61ia. 

 C. Leaves with 5-7 side-veins, with ear-like lobes at base, a 

 foot or more long. Fiddxe-leaved Rubber Plant (545) — 

 Ficus pandurata. 

 B. Leaves thick and rusty below and more or less notched at tip 

 and base. Rcsty-leaved India Rubber Plant (546) — 

 Ficus rubigin6sa. 

 B. Leaves rounded (3 inches long) , thick and densely covered with 

 woolly hairs belgw. Palmer's Rubber Plant- — Ficus PAlmeri. 

 B. Leaves thin and membranous, light green blotched with white. 

 Paecell's Rubber Plant — Ficus Parc^lli. 

 ■A. Leaves usually opposite, entire or somewhat toothed. Rough 

 Rubber Plant — Ficus hispida. 



Fig. 547. — Osage ' Orange.' 



Fig. 348. — Wax ' Myrtle.' 



