212 NATUBAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



globose or pear-sliaped receptacle, more or less open at apex and 

 tliere bracteate, androgynous or female ; males- and females glo- 

 me rate, intermixed on the same receptacle or oftener separate. 

 Calyx 2-6-phyllous, often incrassate or fleshy. Stamens 1 [Uro- 

 stigma^)^ 2 {Fharmacosyc€a'^\ or 4-6, oppositisepalons ; filaments 

 free or connate at base ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Germen sessile 

 or stipitate, oftener 1-locular ; ^ style lateral, at apex simple, subu- 

 late, obtuse, capitate, infundibuliform or 2- fid stigmatose, enclosed 

 within receptacle ; ovule descending, anatropoiis or campylotropous ; 

 micropyle extrorsely superior. Fruit drupaceous enclosed in recep- 

 tacle not fissus nor expanded ; stipes with thicker fleshy angles ; 

 mesocarp at both surfaces thin membranous, generally at last evan- 

 escent; putamen crustaceous or fragile, 1-spermous. Seed descend- 

 ing ; testa membranous ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons of incurved 

 embryo rather flat, sometimes unequal ; radicle superior incumbent. 

 — Trees, sometimes lofty, or shrubs, sometimes climbing, lactescent ; 

 leaves generally alternate, sometimes more rarely opposite, entire or 

 lobate, persistent or deciduous ; stipules large convolute enclosing 

 terminal bud of branchlet, deciduous or more rarely persistent ; 

 inflorescences axillary, solitary or fasciculate, sometimes more rarely 

 in a spike or terminal raceme ; receptacle oftener bracteate at base ; 

 male glomerules superior in androgynous receptacle ; flowers sessile 

 or pedicillate, bracteate or ebracteate. [Ml trop. and temp, regions^) 



Ge)).n. 1168.— Adans. Fain, des PL ii. 377.— ^ Gasp. Nov. Gen. 7; Hie. 81, t. 7.— Miq. 



—J. Gen. 400.— G.TiRTN. Fmct. ii. 66, t. 91.— ITook. Journ. vi. 225 [ Mart. Fl. Bras. Urtic. 



Lamk. Diet. ii. 489; Suppl. ii. 648; III. t. 861. 90, t. 21 -%\. — Cy stogy ne Gasp. Bov. Geii. 9; 



— TuRP. Bict. Sc. Nat. Atl. t. 285.— Spach, Jiic. 84, t. $.— Visiama Gasp. Nov. Gen. 9 (not 



Suit, a Buffun, xi. 54.— Endl. Gen.n. 1859.— J)G.).—MacrophthalmaGK%v. iJtV. 83t. 8.— Miq. 



Gaspakr. Nov. Gen. quce sup. nonnull. Fici spec. Hook. Journ. vi. 225,— Gahglychia Gasp. Nov. 



...(1844') ; Ric. s. nat. d. Fico ed. Caprifico (1845) ; Gen. 10 ; Ric. 84 {Sycocarpa MiQ.). 



Nov. ric. s. ale. punt...doctr. d. Fico e de Capri- 2 Miq. Hook. Lovd. Journ. vii. 64; Mart. Fl. 



/CO.— Trec, Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, viii. 137.— Bras. Utric. 83, t. 25, 26. 



Payer, Orgauog. 285, t. 61 ; Fam. Nat. 170. — 3 Sometimes very rarely 2, 3-locular. 



Bur. Prodr. xvii. 287 (incl. : Bosscheria de 4 Spec, about 600 (Bur.). Thunb. i^eVw* C^». 



Vriese et Teysm. (Bur.).— Carim Mm. (a part TJpsal (1786).— K. E»um. Fie. Hort. Bei-ol. 



of which is Caprificus Gasp. Nov. Gen.Q; Ric. (1846), Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, vii. 231.— Mm. 



79, t. 1-3. Hidymophora Mm. Eriosycea Mm. Prodr. Mon. Fie. Hook. London Journ. (1847, 



Eissosycca Mm. Leiosycea Mm. Nematosycea 1848) ; Journ. Bot. Neerl. i. 230 ; Zoll. Verz. ii. 



Mm. Podosycea Mm. Trematosycea Mm.).— 90 ; Plant. Jungh. 46 ; Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 



Covellia Gasp. Nov. Gen. 10; Ric. 85, t. 8, fig. 393; Suppl. i. 173, 424 ; Amu Mm. Lugd.-Bat. 



36-42 {Sycomorphe Mm. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, 1, iii. 261, 285, 297.— Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 266.— 



Zb).—Erosma Both. Cat. \U.~ Erythrogync A. ^iCH. R. S. Cuba, xi. 220.— Gms-EB. Fl. BHt. 



Vis. Gasp. Ric- S6.—Plagiostigma Zucc. Abh. W.-Ind. 150.— Seem. Fl. Vit. 247.— Benth. Fl. 



A k. Miinch. iv. 64, {Tenorea Gasper.).— P'-^o^o- Hongk. 326; Fl. Austral, vi. 160.— Gren. et 



trophe Mm. Hook. Journ. vii. 72. — Sycomorus Goi>k. Fl. de Fr. iii. IOZ.—Wajlv. Ann. i. 706 ; 



Gasp. Ric. 78. — Mm. Hook. Bond. Journ. vii. iii. 417. 



109. — Synmcia Miq. Hook. Lond. Journ. vii. 469. ' 



