53- MORACEAE 167 



bast-fibres, baik for clothing, india-rubber, shellac, vegetables, medica- 

 ments, and edible fruits (especially the figs, from F. carica L.) which are 

 also used for making brandy and a substitute for coffee. Some species 

 are poisonous or serve as ornamental plants. [Tribe FICEAE.] 



Ficus L. 



Flowers collected on a globe-, club-, disc-, or cup-shaped receptacle. 19 



19. Receptacles more or less cup-shaped, containing many male flowers and a 



single central female one. Stamen i. Embryo straight. [Tribe 



BROSIMEAE.] 20 



Receptacles of two kinds, some containing only male flowers, the others 

 only female or many female intermixed with several male. Shrubs oi 



trees 22 



zo. Perianth distinctly developed. Ovary free. Herbs or undershrubs. 

 — Species 3. Equatorial West Africa. (Including Cyatanthus Engl.) 



Scyphosyce Baill. 



Perianth not distinctly developed. Ovary immersed in and adnate to the 



receptacle. Trees 21 



21. Receptacles covered with peltate bracts on their whole surface. Male 



flowers with, female without bracts. — Species 2. West Africa (Congo). 



Bosqueiopsis De Wild. & Dur. 



Receptacles bearing bracts on the margin only. Female flowers with. 



male without bracts. — Species 6. Tropics. Some yield timber and 



dye-stuffs. Bosqueia Thouars 



22. Male flowers on a discoid or concave receptacle bearing numerous bracts 



on the edge or the whole surface ; female floweis on a similar receptacle 



or solitary. [Tribe OLMEDIEAE.] 23 



Male flowers on a globular or club-shaped receptacle bearing bracts at the 

 base only and between the flowers, or destitute of bracts ; female flowers 

 on a more or less globular receptacle. [Tribe ARTOCARPEAE.] 24 



23. ]\Iale inflorescences many-flowered, discoid ; female i-flowered. Male 



flowers with, female without a perianth. — Species 3. Central Africa. 

 Poisonous, used medicinally, and yielding timber and fibie. 



Antiaris Leschen. 



Male and female inflorescences many-flowered, more or less concave. Male 



flowers without, female with a perianth. — Species 2. Cultivated in the 



tropics. Yielding india-rubber Castilloa Cerv. 



24. Inflorescences without bracts at the base. Flowers monoecious. Stamen 



I. — Species 2. Cultivated in the tropics. They yield timber, bark 



used for making cloth, bast-fibres, mucilage, starch, edible fruits, and 



medicaments. " Breadfruit tree." .... Artocarpus Forst. 



Inflorescences wth some bracts at the base. Flowers dioecious. Stamens 



1—5 25 



25. Female flowers surrounded each by two rows of very unequal bracts or 



perianth-segments, not intermixed with male flowers. ■ — ■ Species i. 

 Equatorial West Africa (Cameroons). . . Acanthotreculia Engl. 



