48 FLOPxA OF JAMAICA Ficus 



caducous. Flowers monrecious, sessile on the inside of a hollow 

 fleshy globose axillary receptacle (the fig), which is androgynous 

 and has scales at the small mouth, and an involucre of bracts 

 at the base. Male flowers : perianth-segments 3, imbricate. 

 Stamen solitary or two. Female flowers : perianth-segments 

 4-6. Ovary straight ; style simple ; ovule pendulous. Achenes 

 enclosed in the receptacle. Seed pendulous ; embryo curved ; 

 cotyledons equal or unequal, radicle incumbent above. 



Fig. 



Species about GOO, widely dispersed through the warmer 

 rearions of the world, but in America almost confined to the 

 tropics. 



Figs solitary in axils 1. F. suffocmis. 



Figs two in each axil. 



Figs surrounded half-way up with broad bracts 



forming a cupule 2. F. Harrisii. 



Figs with bracts not cupular nor extending half- 

 way. 

 Figs sessile or subsessile. 



Mouth not prominent 3. F. aurea. 



Mouth mamilliform. 



Bracts at base of figs not fimbriate 4. F. tnamillifera. 



Bracts fimbriate 5. F. Berteroi. 



Figs stalked. 



Mouth immersed. 



Figs globose or depressed-globose, soft, mouth 

 not in an umbo. 



Figs globose, 8-15 mm. in diam 6, F. ochroleuca. 



Figs depressed-globose or longer than 

 broad, 20-30 mm. in diam. 

 Figs longer than broad ; leaves tripli- 



nerved 1. F. Halliana. 



Figs broader than long ; leaves not 



triplinerved 8. F.tnorantensis. 



Figs obovoid, hard, mouth immersed in an 



umbo 9. F. Grabhamii. 



Mouth not immersed. 



Leaves generally subauriculate at the cuneate 



base; bracts connate 10. F. Wilsotiii. 



Leaves not auriculate at base ; bracts scarcely 



connate 11. F. jpopulnea. 



1. Figs solitary in the axils. Male flowers with 2 stamens. 



1. F. suffoeans Griseh. Fh Br. W. Ind. 150 (1859); twigs 

 terete, not furrowed, glabrous ; stipules glabrous ; leaves parch- 

 ment-like, dotted with cystoliths on both sides, elliptical or 

 oblong, base rounded, obtuse or subacute, sometimes a little 

 oblique, apex obtuse or bluntly apiculate, glabrous, at base 

 shortly 3-(5-)nerved ; figs globose, plum-like, shortly stalked, 

 glabrous, mouth not prominent. Warh. in Urb. Sijmh. Ant. Hi. 

 485. Ficus Indica maxima folio &c. Sloane Cat. 189, Hist. ii. 140, 



