MOKACKSJ. 



SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



91 



FICUS. 



Flowers mostly unisexual, usually monoecious or dioecious, collected on a con- 

 ) receptacle closed at the apex ; calyx 2 to 6-parted or divided, the divisions imbri- 



; ovary superior, 1 -celled ; 



cated in aestivation 



olla ; stamens 1 to 3 : disk 



ovule solitary, suspended. Fruit drupaceous, more or less immersed in the thickened 



fleshy re< 

 deciduous 



ptacle. Leaves alternate or 



rely 



•pposite, stipulate, persistent 



or 



Picus, Linnaeus, Gen. 321 (1737). — Adanson, Fam. PL ii. Galoglychia, Gasparini, Nov. Gen. Fie. 10 (1844). 



377. 

 278. 



A. L. de Jussieu, Gen. 400. — Endliclier, Gen. Sycomorphe, Miquel, Ann. Sci. Nat. sir. 3, i. 35 (1844). 



Meisner, Gen. 350. — BaUlon, Hist. PI. vi. 208. 



Bentham & Hooker, Gen. iii. 367. — G. King, Jour. Linn. 



Soc. xxiv. 42. 

 89. 



PJlanzenfc 



Gonosuke, Rafinesque, Sylva Tellur. 58 (1838). 

 Varinga, Rafinesque, Sylva Tellur. 58 (1838). 

 Necalistis, Rafinesque, Sylva Tellur. 58 (1838). 

 Oluntos, Rafinesque, Sylva Tellur. 58 (1838). 

 Perula, Rafinesque, Sylva Tellur. 58 (1838). 

 Rephesis, Rafinesque, Sylva Tellur. 59 (1838). 

 Tremotis, Rafinesque, Sylva Tellur. 59 (1838). 

 Mastosuke, Rafinesque, Sylva Tellur. 59 (1838) 



Caprificus, Gasparini, Nov. Gen. Fie. 6 (1844). 



Urostigma, Gasparini, Nov. Gen. Fie. 9 (1844). 

 Visiania, Gasparini, Nov. Gen. Fie. 9 (1844). 

 Covellia, Gasparini, Nov. Gen. Fie. 10 (1844). 



Macrophthalma, Gasparini, Bicerch. Caprif. 83, t. 7 



(1845). 

 Erythrogyne, Visiani ; Gasparini Ricerch. Caprif. 86 



(1845). 

 Sycomorus, Gasparini, Bicerch. Caprif. 86 (1845). 



Plagiostigma, Zucearini, Abhand. Acad. Milnch. iv. pt. i. 



154 (1845). 



Nat 



• • • 



Ul. 



345 



Cystogyne, Gasparini, Ann. Sci. Nat. s6t. 3, 



(1845). 

 SyncBcia, Miquel, Hooker Lond. Jour. Bot vi. 525 (1847). 

 Pharmacosycea, Miquel, Hooker Lond. Jour. Bot. vii. 64 



(1848). 

 Pogonotrophe, Miquel, Hooker Lond. Jour. Bot. vii. 72 



(1848) . 



Trees or shrubs^ sometimes scandent, often epiphytal^ with thick milky juice, naked or rarely scaly 

 buds, and thick fleshy roots which are frequently produced from the branches, and, entering the ground, 



d form supplementary stems, so that an individual often gradually spreads 



d lives to a great 



Leaves alternate 



ely opposite 



dentate 



sometimes 



pules deciduous, often fugacious, interpetiolar, embracing 



young leaves, or lateral in pairs at the base of the petiole 



lobed, penniveined, persistent or deciduo 

 the leaf-bearing axis and inclosing the 

 rarely in some annual-leaved species scale-like, minute, covering the leaf -buds. Flower-bearing recep- 

 tacle homorphous or rarely dimorphous, globose, ovoid, ellipsoidal, obovate, or pyriform, narrowed, and 

 often contracted at the base into a short stipe, sessile or pedunculate, solitary by abortion, or in pairs, 

 in the axils of existing or fallen leaves, or in axillary fascicles or on abbreviated leafless lateral branchlets 

 from the trunk or large branches, or in long nearly leafless branches close to the ground, and more or 

 less hypogseus, or very rarely in dense heads arranged on long pendulous leafless branches 3 sometimes 

 inclosed while young in a posterior hood-like caducous involucre, usually surrounded at the base 

 three anterior bracts, distinct or united into an involucral cup, be 



on the 



the 



apex 



numerous rows of minute triangular viscid bracts closing the orifice, those of the lower rows turned 

 downward into the cavity of the receptacle and infolding the upper flowers, those immediately above 

 these horizontal^ and the upper rows projecting from the orifice and forming a more or less prominent 

 umbilicus, or occasionally united into a ring surrounding the orifice. Flowers sessile or pedicellate, the 



ripening of the fruit, unisexual, occasionaUy 



pedicels thickening an 



d becoming succulent with the 



