346 ‘ CX. URTICACES. 
9. CHATACHME, Planch. 
Flowers monecious ; the males tufted, the females solitary. 
—Male: Calyx 5-parted; the lobes valvate-induplicate, con- 
cave. Stamens 5; anthers ovate, apiculate, included. A rudi- 
mentary ovary.— Female: Calyx small, 5-toothed, persistent. 
Ovary ovate, with 2 very long, villous styles. Fruit a nut P— 
Planch. l.c. p. 266; Harv. Thes. t. 25. 
Cape shrubs, with ovate, subentire, rigid, midribbed, penninerved leaves, 
closely netted-veined beneath and tipped with a bristle-shaped point.—1 or 
2 species, in the Eastern districts. 
Suporper 3. Moreze. (Gen. 10.) 
10. FICUS, Tourn. 
Receptacles fleshy, closed, globose or pyriform, scaly-bracted 
at base. Flowers very many, minute, covering the inner sur- 
face of the receptacle, pedicellate, either dicecious or the upper 
male, the rest female-—Male: Calyx 3-parted. Stamens 3. 
—Female: Calyx 5-fid. Ovary 1-celled, sublateral on a short 
pedicel; ovule pendulous. Style lateral, filitorm.—Endl. Gen. 
nm. 1859. 
Trees or shrubs of hot countries; the common Fig being the type of the 
genus, which has recently been broken up into several, not here adopted. 
Leaves alternate, entire or lobed, stipuled, the stipules large, convolute, 
enwrapping the terminal bud, and mostly deciduous. Receptacles (“figs”) 
axillary, solitary or several together.—There are several Cape species, na- 
tives of the Eastern districts and Natal. 
Orper CXI. BETULACEZ. 
Flowers moneecious, in catkins.—Male: Bract peltate, with 
lateral scale-like bracteoles, 3-flowered. Calyx scale-like or 
4-leaved. Stamens 4.—Female: Bract sessile, entire or 3- 
lobed, enlarging with the fruit, 2-3-flowered. Calyx 0 or 
scaly. Ovaries 2-3 under each bract, 2-celled ; ovules solitary, 
pendulous; style 0; stigmas 2, filiform. Fruit of nuts em- 
bedded in cone-like receptacles, formed of the hardened and 
enlarged scales of the female catkin. Albumen 0,—Trees and 
shrubs, chiefly of the Northern hemisphere. The Birch (Be- 
tula) and the Alder (Alnus) are the only genera. 
1. ALNUS, Tourn. 
Male: Bracts 5-bracteolate, 3-flowered. Calyx 4-parted. 
Anthers ovate, 2-celled—Female: Bracts imbricate, fleshy, 
each with 8 or 4 scales in the axis. Ovaries in pairs under 
