a Howoprevea.]  URTICACE. et 
Plants with milky juice :— 
Anthers in bud reversed ; stamens inflexed ; 
ovules pendulous, anatropous.—Shrubs or 
trees :-— 
Female sepals fleshy and confluent in 
fruit, enclosing the achenes; styles 2- 
fid. ; flowers many, in spikes, or the 
fem. flowers subcapitate . . . 13. Morvs. 
Female sepals not fleshy in fruit —A 
small tree or shrub with very rough 
leaves : : : : ; . 14. Srreswvs. 
Anthers in bud erect :— 
Flowers all exposed; inflorescence con- 
gested in globose or oblong heads :— 
Flowers dicecious, in small globose heads ; 
stamens 4.—A_ subscandent spine- 
scent shrub. : ‘ 3 . 15. CupRANta. 
Flowers moneecious, in large oblong 
heads ; stamen 1.—Erect evergreen . 
unarmed trees ‘ : , . 16. ARTOCARPUS. 
Flowers attached to the inner walls of 
a closed receptacle, monccious 
rarely dicecious.—Trees or erect or 
climbing shrubs, often epiphytic « 17. Ficus. 
1, HOLOPTELEA, Planch.; Fl. Brit. Ind. v, 481. 
A large deciduous tree. Leaves alternate, distichous, penni- 
nerved, entire; stipules lateral, scarious. Flowers polygamous 
or 2-sexual, the maies without a rudimentary ovary, arranged in 
fascicles at the scars of the previous year’s shoots which are scaly 
but leafless. /erianth simple, calycine, 4-8-partite ; lobes imbricate, 
often unequal. Stamens 4-8, usually 6-8; filaments erect, at 
length exserted, anthers hairy. Ovary stipitate, compressed ; 
style short, 2-fid., the arms stigmatose within throughout their 
length ; ovule solitary, pendulous. Fruit dry, indehiscent, sama- 
roid or flat, the nucleus expanded into an obliquely ovate reticulate 
wing. Seed flat, albumen none, cotyledons longitudinally com- 
plicate ; radicle small, superior — A single species, confined to 
India, Ceylon and Cochin China. 
