FIG-TREES. 
Natural Order , Artocarpe,e, (R. Brown.) Linnxan 
Classification , Polygamia, Dkecia. 
FICUS, t (Tourn. Linn.) 
Dioecious. — The common receptacle spherical or pyriform, 
resembling a berry, fleshy and closed, including numerous 
distinct and minute flowers. Male , calyx 3-parted. Corolla 
none. Stamens 1 to 3. Female with the calyx 3 to 5- 
parted, and no corolla. Pistillum 1; style 1, subulate; the 
stigma simple or bifid and unequal. Seed 1, covered by the 
persistent subcarnose calyx. 
Lactescent trees or shrubs, chiefly of tropical America, Africa, 
and India; leaves alternate, stipulate, stipules terminal, conical, 
convolute. Receptacles mostly axillary, solitary, or crowded, 
rarely disposed in terminal racemes, often bracteolate at base. 
CHERRY FIG-TREE. 
FICUS pedunculata, foliis ovato-oblongis integerrimis acu- 
minatis obtusis , basi obsolete cordatis , receptaculis globo- 
sis subgeminatis calyculatis pedunculatis. Wiled. Sp. pi. 
Aiton. Hort. Kewen., vol. 3. p. 450. 
Ficus arbor americana , arbuti foliis non serrata , fructu 
pisi magnitudine , funiculis e ramis ad terram dimissis 
prolifer a. Pluken. Almag. p. 144. tab. 178. fig. 4. ? 
This species of Fig-Tree was discovered by Jacquin 
in the island of Martinique; it is also indigenous to 
some other of the West India islands, as well as to the 
neighbouring continent of tropical America. At Key 
West, according to Dr. Blodgett, it becomes a large 
spreading tree 50 feet in height, and like some other 
t A Latin word of uncertain derivation. 
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