"Ficus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... agos-os, or Ficus pungens, which is used occasionally in house construction. See Official Handbook of Philippines, p. 341; and Ahern's Important Philippine Woods (Forestry Bureau, ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 • Various
... above its golden fruitage; clumps of the betel or areca palms, with their slender and absolutely straight shafts, make the cocoa-palms look like clumsy giants; the gutta-percha, india rubber, and other varieties of ficus, increase the forest gloom by the brown velvety undersides of their shining dark-green leafage; then comes the cashew-nut tree, with its immense spread of branches, and its fruit an apple with a nut below; and the beautiful bread-fruit, ...
— The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither • Isabella L. Bird (Mrs. Bishop)
... owariensis, Beauv. Lankesteria Barteri, Hk. Lepidagathis laguroidea, T. And. Ocyinum viride, W. Platystomum africanum, Beauv. Brunnichia africana, Welw. Teleianthera maritima, Moq. Phyllanthus capillaris, Muell. Arg., var. Alchornea cordata, Bth. (fruit). Cyclostemon? sp. (in fruit only). Ficus, 3 species. Musanga Smithii ? (young leafy specimens). Culcasia sp, (no inflorescence), Anchomanes, cf. A. dubius (no attached inflorescence). Anubias ? sp. (no inflorescence). Palisota thyrsiflora? Bth. (imperfect). Palisota prionostachys, C.B.C. " bracteosa, ...
— To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II - A Personal Narrative • Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron
... Ceylon, long famed for elephants, and the tree is the well known "Banyan" (Ficus Indica). According to Linschoten and Wolf, the elephants of all lands do reverence and honour ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton |
