522 MORACE-E (Brown and Hutchinson), 



Oeder CXXII.A. MORACEiE. 



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(By N. E. Brown and J. Hutchinson,) 



J^Jowers unisexualj in spikes or globose heads, or enclosed within 

 a globose or pear-shaped receptacle (fig), or seated upon or immersed 

 in a flattened receptacle. Perianth of 2-6 free segments or 2-6- 

 lobed or toothed, or tubular or urceolate or absent. Stamens 2-6, 

 free, opposite the perianth-segments, absent from the female flowers ; 

 anthers inflexed or erect in bud. Ovary free, 1 -celled, rudimentary 

 or absent from the male flowers ; stigmas 2, equal or unequal, subu- 

 late or filiform, or style entire or bifid at the tip, filiform. Ovule 

 solitary, pendulovis. Fntit either compound and globose or oblon 

 and formed of the enlarged tieshy perianth-segments and outer coat of 

 the ovary, or of achenes immersed in a flattened receptacle or 

 enclosed in a globose or pear-shaped receptacle (fig). Seed pen- 

 dulous, with a thin testa, albuminous or exalbuminous ; embryo 

 curved ; cotyledons flat or folded. 



Trees or shrub?, with, milky juice ; leaves alternate, stipulate, clecicluou^ or 

 evergreen ; flowers of the South African species in dense globose heads or enclosed 

 in the receptacle (fig). 



Dlstuib. Genera about 64, species about 950, ^videly distributed throughout 

 the warmer regions. 



I. Cardiogyne, — Flowers in dense globose heads. 

 II. Ficus. — Flowers completely enclosed in a globose or pear-Bhaped receptacle 



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I. CARDIOGYNE, Bureau. 



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Flowers in globose heads, unisexual, the sexes on diflferent plants. 

 Periantlt-segments 4, imbricate. Stameiis 4, opposite the perianth- 

 segments and longer than them, inflexed in bud, absent from the 

 female flowers. Ovaru superior, sessile, 1 -celled, with 1 pendulous 

 ovule; style terminal, long, filiform. Fruit compound, globose, 

 pulpy, ftumed of the enlarged fleshy perianth-segments and bracts 

 of the combined head of flowers, with the achenes embedded in the 

 pulp, Achenes ellipsoid, notched at the apex, with a thin hard 

 shell. Seed exalbuminous ; testa thin ; embryo with plicate cotyle- 

 dons embracing the incurved radicle. 



