Ficus.] MORACE.E (Hutchinson). 541 



This species lias been coufused with F. nataknsis, Hochot., from which it may 

 be readily distinguished by the rounded (not stipitate) base of 'the receptacle, the 

 smaller ostiole, and the differently shaped leaves with their delicate reticulation. 



liuperfecthj Jcnotvn S}>ecies. 



20. F. ilicina (Sond. ex Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot, Lugd.-Bat. iii. 



289) ; a tree ; branches and branchlets thick, grooved-angular, 

 yellowish ; leaves moderately petiolate, oblong, very obtuse, sub- 

 ang-ular or obtuse at the base, 3^-4 in. long, H in. broad, entire, 

 coriaceous, pale, smooth above, reticulate below with b-S nerves ; 

 petiole thick, }^~}j in. long j stipules ovate, acute, convolute ; recep- 

 tacles not known. Urostigma ilicimimy Sond. in Linnsea, xxiii. 136. 



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"Western Hegton : Little Namaqualand ; Kamiesberg, Ecklon & Zeyher, 4 ; 

 rocky places near Kammapus, Zcyher^ 3869, 



An imperfectly known species the types of which appear to have been lost. 



OitDEK CXXII. B. URTICACEiE. 



(By N. E. Brown.) 



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Flowers unisexual, the sexes on the same or on different plants. 

 Perianth 2-5-lobed or -partite, or urceolate or tubular and toothed 

 at the apex, or bract-like and tubular below, obliquely open and 

 entire or obscurely 3-lobed above^ or absent from the female flowers. 

 Stamens 1-5, absent or rudimentary or scale-like in the female 

 flowers ; anthers inflexeJ in bud. Ovary superior or (in Droguetla) 

 adherent to or closely invested by the perianth, rudimentary, 

 abortive or absent in the male flowers, 1-celIed ; stj-Ie or stigma ter- 

 minal, sometimes oblique; ovule solitary^ basal, erect. Fruit a, dry 

 acliene or fleshy or pulpy, naked or enclosed in or adnate to the 

 more or less enlarged perianth. Seed solitary, ez-ect, with a thin 

 testa, albuminous or exalbuminous ; embryo straight. 



Annual or peremiiaL herbs, shrubs or trees, sometimes armed with stinging hairs, 

 with watery juice ; leaves alternate or opposite, stipulate ; flowers in sessile or 

 pedunculate clusters, or heads, spikes, panicles, cymes or rarely solitary. 



DisTBiB. Genera 41, species about 530, distributed throughout the temperate 

 and tropical regions. 



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Plants armed with atlnginy hairs. 



I. Vrticd, ^-Leaves opposite. Flower -spilces two in each leaf -axil. Stigma a 



sessile mop-like tuft of hairs, 



TI. Fieurya.— Zf(aT5 alternate. Cymes, 'panicles or racemosdy Iranched 



peduncles solitary in each leaf -axil. Stigma linear-filiform or lanceo- 

 late. 



III. XJrer^.—Lcavn alternate. Cymes or panicles solitary in each leaf -axil. 



Stigma a sessile head- or mop-like tuft of hairs. 



