HOLOPTELEA.] 



UETICACEM. 



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Plants with milky juice : 



Anthers in bud reversed ; stamens inflexed ; 

 ovules pendulous, anatropous. Shrubs or 

 trees : 



Female sepals fleshy and confluent in 

 fruit, enclosing the achenes ; styles 2- 

 fid. ; flowers many, in spikes, or the 

 fern, flowers subcapitate . . .13. MORUS. 



Female sepals not fleshy in fruit A 

 small tree or shrub with very rough 

 leaves . . . . . 14. STREBLUS. 



Anthers in bud erect : 



Flowers all exposed ; inflorescence con- 

 gested in globose or oblong heads : 

 Flowers dioecious, in small globose heads ; 

 ,- rumens 4. A subscandent spine- 

 scent shrub . . . . .15. CUDRANIA. 



Flowers monoecious, in large oblong 



heads ; stamen 1. Erect evergreen 



unarmed trees . . . .16. ARTOCARPU*. 



Flowers attached to the inner walls of 



a closed receptacle, monoecious 



rarely dioecious. Trees or erect or 



climbing shrubs, often epiphytic . 17. Ficus. 



1. HOLOPTELEA, Planch. ; Fl. Biit. Ind. v, 481. 



A large deciduous tree. Leaves alternate, distichous, penni- 

 nerved, entire ; stipules lateral, scarious. Flowers polygamous 

 or 2-sexual, the males without a rudimentary ovary, arranged in 

 fascicles at the scars of the previous year's shoots which are scaly 

 but leafless. Perianth simple, calycine, 4-8-partite ; lobes imbricate, 

 often unequal. Stamens 4-8, usually 6-8 ; filaments erect, at 

 length exserted, anthers hairy. Ovary stipitate, compressed ; 

 style short, 2-fid., the arms stigmatose within throughout their 

 length ; ovule solitary, pendulous. Fruit dry, indehiscent, sama- 

 roid or flat, the nucleus expanded into an obliquely ovate reticulate 

 wing. Seed flat, albumen none, cotyledons longitudinally com- 

 plicate ; radicle small, superior A single species, confined to 

 India, Ceylon and Cochin China. 



