491 cxxxvi. UBTICACBJB. (J. D. Hooker.) [Ficus. 



16. DORSTENXA, Linn. 



t Herbs or small shrubs. Leaves alternate or radical, entire or lobed ; 

 stipules lateral. Flowers monoecious, crowded on a flat simple or lobed 

 androgynous receptacle. MALE PL. Perianths more or less connate and 

 adnate with the receptacle, obscurely 2-lobed or toothed. Stamens 1-3, 

 indexed in bud. Pistillode 0. FEM. FL. deeply sunk in the receptacle ; 

 perianth-mouth almost closed. Ovary included ; style excentric or lateral, 

 arms 2 subulate ; ovule pendulous. Achene minute, crustaceous. 

 Albumen 0; cotyledons subequal, contorted, embracing the upcurved 

 radicle. Species about 45, all American and African but the following. 



D. indica, Wall. Cat. 4639 ; stem simple, leaves alternate membranous 

 from obovate to lanceolate acuminate sinuate-toothed, receptacle peltate 

 broadly obconic rounded or angular with 5-12 linear arms. Bureau in 

 DC. Prodr. xvii. 272 ; Wight Ic. t. 1964. 



DECCAN PENINSULA; in the Nilghiri, Pulney and Dindygul Mts., Wight'. 

 CEYLON; Central Province, alt. 3-6000 ft. 



Sparsely hairy ; stem 3-10 in., erect from a creeping base, stout or slender. 

 Leaves 2-3 in., narrowed into a petiole |- 1 in.,puberulous or glabrous. Receptacles 

 -f in. diain. 



17. FICUS, Linn, (by G. King). 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes scandent, sap milky. Leaves alternate, 

 rarely opposite, entire, lobed, serrate or toothed; stipules various. Flowers 

 minute, unisexual, on the inner walls of a fleshy receptacle, the mouth of 

 which is closed by imbricate bracts; flowers often mixed with bracteoles. 

 MALE FL. Perianth 2-6-fid or partite, imbricate. Stamens 1-2, rarely 3-6, 

 erect in bud. FEM. FL. Perianth of the male, or imperfect, or 0. Ovary 

 straight or oblique ; style excentric, stigma various ; ovule pendulous. 

 Achenes crustaceous or fleshy. Albumen scanty ; embryo curved, coty- 

 ledons equal or unequal, . radicle upcurved. Species about 600. mostly 

 tropical. 



In Ficus the receptacles are sometimes unisexual, but are usually androgynous 

 with the males nearest the mouth. The flowers are of four kinds or forms, male, 

 female, galls, and (rarely) neuters. The male and female fl. are described above. , 

 The gall fl. are like the female but perfect no seed, their style is short, often dilated 

 above, and the ovary occupied by the pupa of a Hymeuopterous insect. Neuter 

 flowers, found in -Sect. Synoecia only, have the perianth of -the males. 'The male, 

 fern. at><! gall fl. may occupy the same receptacle ; or the males and galls one set of 

 "" lies, and the fern, and neuters in another set; or the males and galls may be 

 3t of receptacles and the females in another set. 



L indebted to Dr. King for the following account of the Indian Figs, extracted 

 lis fine work on the Indo-Malayan Fici prepared for the " Annals of the 

 ba Botanical Gardens," of which the first part only, embracing the four first 

 is of the opnus, have as yet come to hand. It will be observed that I have 

 out modified the wording and arrangements of the characters, so as to bring 

 riptions into harmony with those of other genera in this Flora, 

 /ing to the redundancy of the synonymy and citations unhappily -introduced 

 this genus through the multiplication of the species by the late Dr. Miquel, and 

 the numerous works in which he published, I have been compelled to abbreviate the 

 titles of the latter, which would otherwise have occupied an unreasonable amount of 

 space. Thus " Miq. Ann." stands for " Miquel's Anuales Musei Lugduni Batavorum ;" 

 " Miq. Flor.'*for his " Flora Indire Batavae ;" and " Miq. in L. J. B." for his papers 

 in Hooker's flbndon Journal of Botany. J. D. H. 



