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Sycidium. — Flowers unisexual; male and gall flowers in one set of receptacles, 



fertile female flowers in a distinct set of receptacles ; male flowers with 

 stamen [sometimes 2 in Nos. 83, 93, 99, and 102) ; leaves alternate ; receptacles 



small> more or less scabrid, axillary or in a few species in fascicles from 

 the stem ; shrubs, small trees, or climbers, rarely epiphytal. 



Leaves variable in shape, more or less ovate, often irregular!}/ lobed. 



An erect shrub, receptacles pyriform, in axillary fascicles . . . . 82. F. purpurascens. 



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ovoid-globose, in pairs, axillary . . . . 83. F. Bhotanica. 





Small ground creepers. 



Receptacles half an inch or more in diameter ...*... 84. F. heterophylla 

 Receptacles less than half an inch in diameter, never pyriform . 85. F. gucrcitolia. 



Leaves more or less ovate or elliptic, not lobed, nor muck contracted in the lower third, mostly xcabnd. 



A creeping shrub 86. # nigretcen*. 



Trees or erect shrubs. 



Leaves equally cordate at the base 87. F. hcleropoda. 



Leaves unequally cordate at the base 88. F. semicordata. 



Leaves not cordate at the base. 



Softly tomentose on the lower, scabrid on the upper surface. 89. F. conjugata. 

 Pubescent on the lower, lepidote on the upper surface ; recep- 

 tacles 1-5 inch in diameter 90. F compicabilis. 



Scabrid-hispid on both surfaces. 



Receptacles "5 inch or more in diameter, lateral primary 



fa ns 91. F. asperrima 



nerves ascending 



Receptacles less than *5 inch in diameter, nerves 



transverse 



92. F. Swinhoei. 



Leaves elongate, ovate, or obovate, conspicuously narrowed in the lower third. 



Leaves very inequilateral ; receptacles axillary or in fascicles from 



the stem 





93. F. obzcura. 



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