Weeping fig, benjamin fig, Ficus benjamina. Native to Malabar, India, and the East Indies. Shining-leaved fig, Ficus nitida. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823-27.

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