491 CXXXVI. URTICACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Ficus. 
16. DORSTENIA, Linn. 
Herbs or small shrubs. Leaves alternate or radical, entire or lobed; 
stipules lateral. Flowers moncecious, crowded on a flat simple or lobed 
androgynous receptacle. Mate FL. Perianths more or less connate and 
adnate with the receptacle, obscurely 2-lobed or toothed. Stamens 1-3, 
inflexed in bud. Pistillode 0. Fem. FL. deeply sunk in the receptacle; 
perianth-mouth almost closed. Ovary included ; style excentric or lateral, 
arms 2 subulate; ovule pendulous. Achene minute, crustaceous. 
Albumen 0; cotyledons subequal, contorted, embracing the upcurved 
radicle.—Species about 45, all American and African but the following. 
D. indica, Wall. Cat. 4639 ; stem simple, leaves alternate membranous 
from obovate to lanceolate acuminate sinuate-toothed, receptacle peltate 
broadly obconic rounded or angular with 5-12 linear arms. Bureau m 
DC. Prodr. xvii. 272; Wight Ic. t. 1964. 
Deccan PENINSULA; in the Nilghiri, Pulney and Dindygul Mts., Wight. 
CEYLON; Central Province, alt. 3-6000 ft. 
Sparsely hairy; stem 3-10 in., erect from a ereeping base, stout or slender. 
Leaves 2-3} in., narrowed into a petiole 3-1 in., puberulous or glabrous. Receptacles 
4-2 in. diam. 
17. FICUS, Linn. (by G. King). ` 
Trees or shrubs, sometimes scandent, sap milky. Leaves alternate, 
rarely opposite, entire, lobed, serrate or toothed; stipules various. Flowers 
minute, unisexual, on the inner walls of a fleshy receptacle, the mouth of 
which is closed by imbricate bracts; flowers often mixed with bracteoles. 
Mate FL. Perianth 2-6-fid or partite, imbricate. Stamens 1-2, rarely 3-6, 
erect in bud. Fem. ru. Perianth of the male, or imperfect, or 0. Ovary . 
straight or oblique; style excentric, stigma various; ovule pendulous. 
Achenes crustaceous or fleshy. Albumen scanty; embryo curved, coty- 
ledons equal or unequal, radicle upcurved.—Species about 600, mostly 
tropical. 
In Ficus the receptacles are sometimes unisexual, but are usually androgynous 
with the males nearest the mouth. The flowers are of four kinds or forms, n e 
female, galls, and (rarely) neuters, The male and female fl. are described el 
The gall fl. are like the female but perfect no seed, their style is short, often dila od 
above, and the ovary occupied by the pupa of a Hymenopterous insect. Neu » 
flowers, found in Sect. Synccia only, have the perianth of the males.— The ma o, 
fem. and gall fl. may occupy the same receptacle; or the males and galls one set 
receptacles, and the fem, and neuters in another set; or the males and galls may 
in one set of receptacles and the females in another set. . ted 
1 am indebted to Dr. King for the following account of the Indian Figs, exime 
from his fine work on the Indo-Malayan Fici prepared for the “ Annals 0 at 
Caleutta Botanical Gardens,” of which the first part only, embracing the fout aye 
sections of the genus, have as yet come to hand. It will be observed that I a 
throughout modified the wording and arrangements of the characters, 80 aS to bri 
the descriptions into harmony with those of other genera in this Flora. — duced 
Owing to the redundancy of the synonymy and citations unhappily intros an 
into this genus through the multiplication of the species by the late Dr. Mique, e 
the numerous works in which he published, I have been compelled to abbrevia ave 
titles of the latter, which would otherwise have occupied an unreasonable etiem S4 
space, Thus *' Mig. Anu." stands for ** Miquel’s Annales Musei Lugduni Batavo ; 
'** Miq. Flor." for his ** Flora Indie Batav ;” and “ Miq. in L. J. B." for his pa 
in Hooker's London Journal of Botany.—J. D. H. 
