40 DR. G. KING ON THE GENUS FICUS. 
GROUP I.—Pseudo-hermaphrodite; male flowers 
with 1 stamen and a rudimentary pistil. 
Pseudo-hermaphrodite flowers and gall-flowers 
in one set of receptacles; fertile female flowers 
in another set ....... 00 cece eee ee n Paleomorphe. 
GROUP II.—Unisexual or asexual; male flowers 
without rudimentary pistils. 
Section I.—Male, gall, and fertile female 
flowers on the same receptacle .......... Urostigma. 
Section IL— Flowers unisexual or neuter; 
male and gall-flowers on one set of 
receptacles, fertile female and neuter 
flowers in another set........... eese Synacia. 
Section III.—Flowers unisexual; male and 
gall-flowers in one set of receptacles, fertile 
female flowers only in another set. 
A.—Flowers monandrous: 
a. Receptacles chiefly axillary ...... Sycidium. 
B. Receptacles mostly in fascicles from 
stem and branches ............ Covellia. 
B.—Flowers di-, rarely triandrous: 
a. Receptacles mostly axillary ...... Eusyce. 
B. Receptacles mostly in fascicles from 
stem and branches ............ Neomorphe. 
These seven sections are not all equally natural. The most 
natural of them are Urostigma and Synecia. The coincidence 
in Urostigma of such apparently unconnected characters as the 
moneecious condition of the axillary paired receptacles and the 
epiphytal habit is very remarkable. In no other section is the 
tendency to be epiphytal at all strongly marked; in Urostigma 
it is universal. Many species in other sections are scandent and 
support themselves on trees and rocks by throwing out rootlets 
from their stems and branches. But these rootlets are furnished 
with fibrille and collecting-hairs like the roots that penetrate 
the soil, and are very different in appearance from the strong 
subdivisions of the main axis by which the epiphyte embraces, 
and ultimately strangles the tree to which it attaches itself. The 
name Urostigma was originally devised by Gasparrini ; it is the 
only one of his genera the characters of which pretty nearly 
agree with those of any of my sections. 
