Cecrojyia 



MORACE^ 



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7. CECROPIA L. 



Trees with milky juice ; trunk and branches hollow with 

 septa at intervals. Leaves long-stalked, ample, peltate, lobed, 

 lobes prominently penni veined ; stipules large, connate, intra- 

 petiolar, enclosing the terminal bud, deciduous. Flowers dioecious, 

 very dense in cylindrical spikes. Spikes, several at the apex of 



Fig. W.CecropUi. 



A, Apex of female shoot; s, stipule en- D, Male inflorescence. 



closing terminal bud ; b, spatlie-like E, Surface view of male flowers, 



bract enclosing young female spikes. , An unopened male flower. 



B, Female flower. G, Opened male flower. 



C, Surface view of two female flowers. 



A, C. cyrtostachija Mitj. (after Fl. Bras.). Other figures, C. peltata L. 



a peduncle within a spathaceous caducous bract, female thick, 

 male more slender, the flowers of both sexes very small and 

 numerous, sessile. Male flowers : perianth tubular. Stamens 2, 

 filaments straight, scarcely exserted. Ovary wanting. Female 

 flowers : perianth tubular with a small opening at apex. Ovary 

 included; style very short, stigma exserted, peuicillate ; o\ ule 



