3O2 TJie Flowering Plants of Western India. 



Tribe 3. Cannabinese gen. Cannabis, hemp. 



Tribe 4. Morese Mulberries gen. Streblus. 



Tribe 5. Artocarpeae gen. Ficus, Antiaris, Artocarpus. 



All the above, except Cannabis and some species of Ficus, are 

 trees. 



Tribe 6. Urticeae contains all the other genera here given, 

 the species being mostly herbs and no trees. They have long 

 coiled and elastic filaments, and round anthers, and leaves very 

 frequently with stinging hairs. 



1. HOLOPTELEA. Deciduous trees, leaves entire (except in 

 young plants), with scarious stipules; flowers fascicled, peri- 

 anth cleft to the base, stamens 4 to 8, fruit dry, flat, and 

 winged. 



2. CELTIS. Trees or shrubs, leaves bifarious, flowers poly- 

 gamous, in cymes, females in the upper axils ; sepals 4 or 5 im- 

 bricated, stamens short surrounding a woolly disk, drupe small 

 ovoid or roundish. 



3. TREMA. Trees or shrubs, sepals 4 or 5, drupe ovoid or 

 roundish small, usually crowned with the style. 



4. STREBLUS. Unarmed shrubs or trees, sepals 4, in the 

 female flowers embracing the ovary, female flowers bracteate, 

 fruit membranous roundish. 



5. Ficus. Trees or shrubs, flowers minute, unisexual on the 

 inner walls of a fleshy receptacle, the mouth of which is closed 

 by imbricated bracts ; flowers often mixed with bracteoles, 

 stamens one or two, perianth of female flowers often im- 

 perfect. 



6. ANTIARIS. Trees, leaves bifarious, male flowers crowded 

 on the surface of an axillary fleshy receptacle, surrounded by 

 imbricated bracts, female solitary, without perianth, in a many- 

 leaved involucre ; male sepals 4, stamens 3 to 8, ovary adherent 

 to the involucre, fruit fleshy. 



7. ARTOCAEPUS. Trees, flowers densely crowded on recep- 

 tacles, male perianth 2 to 4-lobed, stamen one erect ; female 

 perianth tubular, fruit large and fleshy, composed of a great 

 number of enlarged perianths and carpels. 



The remainder have sepals and stamens 4 or 5, but in Nos. 10 and 

 12 sometimes only three. 



8. FLEURTA. Annual herbs with stinging hairs, flowers 

 clustered and spiked. 



9. ELATOSTEMMA. Herbs or undershrubs, leaves usually very 



