ULMACE^. 211 



wider involucrate ; ^ filaments free ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. 

 Germen inferior subcentral, entirely adnate to receptacle ; style 

 erect, somewliat dilated at base, 2 -fid above ; branches linear, 

 stigmatose within; ovule 1, inserted under apex of cell, descending ; 

 micropyle extrorsely superior. Fruit inferior, externally sur- 

 rounded by adnate urceolate receptacle, at apex orowiied with 

 remains of bracteoles and stamens ; albumen of descending seed 

 copiously fleshy ; embryo subapical very small (?). — Trees or 

 shrubs ; leaves alternate petiolate, oftener entire coriaceous penni- 

 nerved glabrous ; stipules intra -axillary amplexiciaul, caducous ; 

 inflorescences axillary solitary pedunculate, in early ^.ge budlike 

 and perulate, more or less lateral, finally sub terminal. (Trap, east, 

 littoral and insular Jfriea,^) 



51. Piratinera Aubl.^ — Flowers monoecious; males crowded 

 entirely covering common globose receptacle ; female 1 (or very 

 rarely 2) adnate within to top of receptacle. Stamens oo, destitute 

 of calyx, intermixed with pelt9,te bracts ; filaments filiform erect ; 

 anthers dorsifixed to thick connective ; cells 2, lateral, rimose, or 

 peltate and dehiscent all round an annular cleft. Germen partly 

 inferior, more or less adnate to foveole of receptacle ; ovule descend- 

 ing campylotropous ; style terminal, 2-lobed at stigmatose apex. 

 Fruit ^^ baccate," finally sub-siccate, clothed with receptacle covered 

 with peltate scales ; testa of descending seed thin ; cotyledons of 

 exalbiminous embryo thick unequal ; radicle superior incumbent. — 

 Lactifluent trees or shrubs ; leaves distichous petiolate, generally 

 entire ; stipules axillary, 2-nate, semiamplexicaul, deciduous ; inflo- 

 rescences axillary, oftener 2-nate or in racemes sometimes very 

 compound. (Trop. central and south America.'^) 



52. Ficns T.^ — Flowers 1 -sexual, enclosed in utriculose oftener 



' Bracts interior to stqimens, sometimes re- Gen. n, 1861. — Trec. Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 3, viii. 



present epigynous female calyx. 138, t. 6, fig. 163-181. — Bur. Prodr. xvii. 288. 



2 Spec, known 3, of which 2 are Madagq,s- — Galactodetidron H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. 

 carene. vii. 163 



3 Gitian. ii. 888, t. 340 (1775).— ? Ferolia ^ Spec. 7, 8, Tuss. Jourv. de Bot. i. 202, t. 8 j 

 Abul. Guian. Suppl. 8, t. 372.— Lamk. J)ifit. ii. Fl. Med. Ant. t. 9 {Brosimum). — Spreng. Syst. 

 452. — DC. Pro<?r. xvii. 293. — AlicastrumF. Bk. i. 22; iv. 403 {Brosimum). — Kl. Linncea, xx. 

 /«/». (1756), 372. (Aublet's nances have priority, 522 {Brosimum). — Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3723, 

 but generically are not to be adhered to). — 3724 {Galactodendron). — Mia. Mart. fl. Bras. 

 Brosimum Sw. Fl, Ind. Occ. i. (1799), 17, t. 1, Utric. 108, t. 32, 33.— Griseb. fl. Brit. W.- 

 fig. 1 (on no grou^d to be preferred to Aublet's Ind. 152 {Brosimum). 



name).— Spach, Suit, ct Buffon, %\. 62.— Endl. » Inst. 662, t. 420.— L. Ficus. Upsal (1786) ; 



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