2S8 JOB.EST .TREI!$^ 



Dr. King figures two varieties of tlie species, one 

 having opposite and the other alternate leaves. 

 Cultivated in the Lal-Bagh. The wood appears to 

 be soft and useless like the most of the fig tree$. 

 Cuttings are easily rooted, but seedlings are prefer-- 

 able for good growth. 



557 Ficus Roxburghii, Wall. 



Fig.— King. Fie. PI. 211 ; Wight Ic, t. 673. 



ReSerences.— Brand. For. Fl. 43S. Diet, ofEeon. 

 Prod, of India. 



A spreading evergreen tree of 20 — 30 feet in 

 height, although the primary branches usually sweep 

 the ground and give the species the appeeirance of a 

 huge bush. Indigenous to Northern India, Chitta- 

 gong.and Burmah; . but introduced from the Hoyal 

 Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, and cultivated in. the Lal- 

 Bagh. This remarkable tree will soon spread, in 

 local cultivation, both for ornament and the popular 

 use of its beautiful leaves in lieu of crockery. Leaves 

 deeply cordate, ovate-rotund or nearly orbicular, 

 copper-coloured when young, strongly ribbed under- 

 neath; average blade 10-12 in. The, large, turbi- 

 nate or truncate-pyrif orm fruit is borne in enormous 

 clustery around the base of the trunk, and upwards 

 as. the tree advances in age and stature; twice the. 

 size of an ordinary table fig but insipid to the taste 

 and quickly becoming hard and woody. 



As a subject for scenic planting and dompstic uti- 

 lity, this species will soon find favour in Mysore. It 

 was first introduced in 1882. 



Cultivation.— Cuttings take root in moist situ- 

 ations but seedlings have not been raised from th6 

 loca,l trees. Perennial moisture is of more iniportance 

 to healthy growth than even the quality of the soil, 

 although the richer the latter is the better. Plant 

 at 40 feet apart. 



