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wild, and is very common ; quite a weed about hedges and ditches; 
attains to a large shrub ten feet in height. M. Alt. '1 to 3. This 
plant grows so readily that it might be cultivated with ease to 
almost any extent, and the seeds, which are very abundant, collected 
for making castor-oil. The leaves also might serve to feed silk- 
worms, but at present no use is made of it. Hab. L. Indies. 
93. Urticackte (. Nettle Family). 
Cannabis, Linn. 
622. C. sativa, Linn. — Hemp; mentioned by Roxburgh as 
growing in the Island. — Hab. Asia. 
Ficus, Linn. 
623. F. sp. ? — Several Trees in the Castle Gardens, Jamestown, 
and also near the old Joss-house at Plantation ; grows to a height of 
thirty-five feet. C. &H.L. Alts. T to 3'6. 
624. F. Carica, Linn.— The Common Fig; grows well and 
abundantly to a small tree twelve feet in height, and bears most 
excellent fruit from January to June. It appears to thrive as well 
at an alt of '2 as it does on the higher land at 3. A variety, known 
as the Wild Fig, whose fruit does not ripen, attains a good-sized 
tree, and grows about the roadsides in several parts of the Island, 
C to H. L. ; easily propagated by cuttings.— Hab. S. of Europe. 
625. F. indica, Linn.— The Banyan Tree, or, as it is commonly 
called in the Island, the Jack Tree, does not attain a large size. T here 
are a few small trees in Jamestown, Sandy Bay, Fisher’s Valley, 
Wood Cot, &c., where they are easily recognised by their bright red 
fruit. C.— Hab. E. Indies. 
626. F. terebrata, Willd. — Grows in the Castle Gardens in 
Jamestown, where there are a good many large trees ; also grows in 
Rupert’s Valley. C. Easily propagated by cuttings.— Hab. East 
Indies. , 
627. F. religiosa, Linn. — The Peepul Tree ; grows to a lieig t 
of thirty or forty feet in Jamestown, where there is a fine row of 
trees along the front lines, and also in Lemon Valley near to the sea. 
C. Easily propagated by cuttings. 
628. F. elastica, Roxb. — There are a few India-rubber Trees m 
the Island. They seem to thrive well at a low alt. near the sea, as 
