125. MOBACEM. [1. Phyllochlamys. 



Near streams. Mais of Pari ! Maj-urbhanj, elev. 400() ft. ! Fl., Fr. April-May. 



The leaves are very variable in this species and I have only described the form 

 m our area The Mayurbhanj plant has them more hairy and pale beneath, not 

 so large and with petioles only -b-l-'i", but they are not full-grown. 



FAM. 125. MORACE^. 



Trees or shrubs, rarely herbs, nearly always with milky latex. 

 Leaves alternate, very rarely opposite^ simple, rarely deeply cut, 

 frequently dotted (due to cystoliths). Stipules deciduous, ^ often 

 sheathmg and leaving a permanent annular scar after falling (resem- 

 bling that of many Magnoliacea?). Flowers small or minute, green 

 or colourless, dioecious or monoecious, cymose but cymes often dense 

 and becoming capitate, or sometimes'^ spiciform, "^ in some genera 

 crowded on the outside or inside of fleshy receptacles formed of the 

 growth and union of the floral axes : male and female inflorescence 

 sometimes dift'erent. Tepals usually 4, seldom 2, 3, 5 or 6, valvate or 

 imbricate, free or connate. Stamens isomerous or reduced in number, 

 when isomerous then opposite the tepals, inflexed or erect in bud,' 

 anthers with longitudinal dehiscence. Female perianth often accres- 

 cent in fruit. Ovary superior, 2-carpellary, 1 -celled. Styles 2 or 

 1-2-partite, or simple (anterior branch only developed), papillose on 

 the inner side, rarely stigma terminal peltate or tubular. Ovule 

 pendulous from top, amphitropous with micropyle superior, seldom 

 basal and orthotropous. Fruit an achene, or drupe, or sub 2-valvular, 

 often aggregated into large fleshy pseudocarps. Seed albuminous 

 or not. Embryo mostly curved, cotyledons often very unequal, 

 thick flat or one folding round the other. 



I. Stamens inflexed in bud with reversed anthers. Flowers 

 not usually crowded on or inside large fleshy receptacles, 

 recepts sometimes globose and fleshy in fruit. Perianth 

 usually fleshy in fruit :— 



A. Fem. fl. solitary or 2-3 on a peduncle, style 2-fid. M. fl. 



capitate or subcapitate :-— 

 Spinous shrub. Fem. tepals foliaceous, up to 1" in frt. 1. Pkijllochlamut 

 Unarmed shrub or tree. Fem. tepals small enclosino- 

 ^ , the ovary, fleshy in fruit ; 2. Sfrebln:^. 



B. M. and Fem. fls. spicate or fem. in ovoid heads. Peri- 



anth fleshy in fruit. Style 2-fid 3. Moms. 



C Fem. fl. in globose heads, sometimes forming a fleshy 

 pseudocarp in fruit. Style simple :— 

 M. fl. spicate. Achenes' fleshy, long-stipitate on the 



globose receptacle in fruit 4. Bronssonetia. 



M, and fem. fls. in globose heads. Achenes few. large, 

 sunk in the fleshy pseudocarp in fruit . ... b. Pleco*permum. 

 i.1. Stamens straight in bud. Flowers crowded in globose 

 heads or on or inside fleshj- receptacles :— 



A. Fls. in dense gloljose heads. Achenes many on the 



fleshy globose receptacle. Male 4-androus .' . .6 Cudrania 



B. Fls. crowded on the outside of oblong or irregularly 



globose large receptacles. Male monandrous . . 7. Arfocar»H« 

 t . Flowers crowded on the inside of fleshy receptacles, of 



which the mouth is closed by bracts ' . . . .8. Ficus. 



1. PHYLLOCHLAMYS, Bureau. 

 Thorny trees or shrubs with milky juice. Leaves penninerved. 

 Flowers dioecious, males in short axillary bracteate spikes or heads ; 



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