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Receptacles hispid-scabrous ; leaves long caudate-acuminate, F. radicana. 



XXX Leaves thick membranous, long-acuminate, the netveination not 

 prominent, at least not above. 

 Leaves entire ; receptacles usually with a few scales on their circumference ; stalk of recepta- 

 cle scaled, F. subulata. 



Leaves crenate-serrate towards apex ; receptacles and their stalk not scaled, F. uniglandulosa. 



t { Stalked receptacles longer or shorter peduncled. 



X Glabrous or almost glabrous trees. Receptacles abruptly stalked. 

 Leaves not tessellate-netveined beneath. 

 Receptacles the size of a pea or thereabouts, smooth ; petiole 



-J inch long. 



Leaves rigidly obartaceous, bluntish or blunt-acuminate, vividly green, F. vasculosa. 



Leaves thin but rigidly ehartaceous, sharply acuminate, brownish beneath, F. nervosa, 



Receptacles the size of a plum, along with the long peduncle 

 scabrous puberulous. 



Leaves large, glaucous-green, more or less rounded at apex ; petiole 1-2 in. long, . . F. callosa, 



X X Glabrous or almost glabrous often roofing climbers. Receptacles 

 abruptly and shortly peduncled. Leaves rigidly coriaceous, usually 



tesaellate netveined beneath. 

 Leaves not tessellate-netveined beneath. Receptacles the size of a 

 pea to that of a i-mall cherry, the floiuers mixed with bristles. 



Receptacles quite smooth, , F. ramentacea. 



Leaves tessellate-netveined beneath. Flowers not mixed with 

 bristles. 



II Receptacles large, the size of a pigeon'' s or hen's egg. 



Glabrous ; leaves blunt ; receptacles smooth, apple-shaped, F. pomifera, 



II II Receptacles the size of a pea or larger. 



Receptacles scabrous, F. scandens. 



XXX Roughly puberulous low shrubs, creeping or ascending, recepta- 

 cles more or less abruptly stalked. 



Leaves serrate ; receptacles the size of a cherry, white-tubercled, F. scabrclla. 



Leaves coarsely sinuate and almost lobed ; receptacles the size of a pepper kernel, scabrously 

 pubescent , F. anastomosans. 



X X X X Glabrovs or pubescent erect or creeping shrubs. Receptacles 

 gradually narrowed in a stalk and therefore more or less pear- 

 shaped ; peduncle usually long and conspicuous. 

 Creeping low shrub. Leaves serrate. 



Leaves variously shaped from cordate and palmately lobed to cordate-lanceolate and undivided, 

 especially beneath, scabrous-pubescent, F. heterophylla. 



Erect shrubs. Leaves entire, more or less lanceolate to linear- 

 lanceolate. 



Leaves and receptacles glabrous, F. ischnopoda. 



Leaves greyish pubescent beneath ; receptacles and peduncles pubescent, . . F. subpyriformis, 



* Receptacles in clusters or by pairs, forming racemes or spikes arising from tubercle' 

 like or reduced leafless ramose branchlets or from bructed shoots from the roots -or 

 stems (in u few species arising at the same time from the axils of the leaves). 

 Leaves more or less membranous, never coriaceous, glabrous or variously pubes- 

 cent. Receptacles more or less depressed-pyriform to pyriform and turbinate, 

 often more or less scaled on their circumference ; mouth strongly umbilicate 

 by numerous more or less erect bracts ; male flowers often monandrous. 

 iitigma usually thickened and papillose. 

 X Leaves glabrous, or pubescent Ijeneath, entire. 



t Leaves more or less oblong-lanceolate, penninerved ; receptacles the size 

 of a pea or thereabouts, scaly. Trees. 



Receptacles obsoletely ribbed, glabrous, long-peduncled, F. Bibes. 



t t Leaves lanceolate to linear, penninerved. Rtceptacles the size of a 

 cherry or larger. Shrubs. 



