Brosiminn 



MORACE.E 



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Seed attached near the apex, without endosperm ; cotyledons 

 thick, fleshy, subequal ; radicle small, superior. 



Species about 8, natives of tropical America, from the West 

 Indies and Mexico to Brazil. 



B. Alicastrum Sw. Prodr. 12 (1788) S: Ic. hied. t. L>6 ; Tu.ssac 

 Fl. Ant. I. 8G, /. y; Wright Mem. 301 ; Tread in Ann. Sc. Nat. 

 ser. 3, viii. 139, t. 6,/. 163-5; Griseh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 152. 

 Alicastrum Arc. Browne Hist. Jam. 372. (Fig. 14.) 



Bread- nut. 



Wright ! Lindsay ! Broiunc ; Swartz ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 10,40G. 

 Mexico. 



A high tree. Leaves oblong or elliptical-oblong, cuspidate, glabrous, 

 7-18 cm. 1., 3-G cm. br. ; stalks 3-10 mm. 1. Receptacles covered with 

 flowers about '5-1 cm. 1. ; peduncles "3-1 cm. 1. Stamens peltate, 1-celled, 

 dehiscing all round. Fruit globose, yellow, about the size of a small plum, 

 2-2*5 cm. 1. 



An excellent timber tree. Nuts and leaves form a valuable fodder. 



6. FICUS L. 



Trees with milky juice. Leaves alternate, entire, conspicu- 

 ously pinnately veined ; stipules enclosing the terminal bud, 



V'v' \5.Ficu>i aurea Nutt. 



A, Branch with yuiiii;.' tigs. 



B, Apex of shoot with two figs ; 

 s, stipule ; I, leaf-scar. 



C, Vertical section tif liu; ; b, basal 

 bracts ; m, mouth. 



D, Section of small poitiou of tig show- 

 ing tiowers. 



E, Male Howcr. 

 , Female tluwcr. 



