ulm a c /■:./■: 211 



wider involucrate ; 1 filaments free ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. 

 Germen inferior subcentral, entirely adnate to receptacle ; style 

 erect, somewhat dilated at base, 2-fid above ; brandies 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 crowned 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 amplexicaul, caducous ; 

 inflorescences axillary solitary pedunculate, in early age budlike 

 and perulate, more or less lateral, Anally sub terminal. (Trop. cast, 

 littoral and insular Africa.") 



51. Piratinera Aubl. 3 — Flowers monoecious ; males crowded 

 entirely covering common globose receptacle ; female 1 (or very 

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

 of calyx, intermixed with peltate 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 campy lotropous ; 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-natc, semiamplexicaul, deciduous ; inflo- 

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

 compound. (Trop, central and south. America}) 



52. Ficus T. 5 — Flowers 1 -sexual, enclosed in utriculose oftener 



1 Bracts interior to stamens, sometimes re- Gen. n. 1861. — Tuée. Ann. Se. Nat. sér. 3, viii, 



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



- Spec, known 3, of which 2 are Madagas- — Galactodendron H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. 



carene. vii. 163 



3 Guian. ii. 8S8, t. 340 (1775).— ? Ferolia * Spec. 7, 8, Tuss. Jour», de Bot. i. 202, t. S ; 



Abul. Guian. Suppl. 8, t. 372. — Lamk. Diet. ii. FI. Méd. Ant. t. 9 (Brosimum). — Spreng. Syst. 



452.— DC. Prodr. xvii. 293. — Alicastrum P. Br. i. 22; iv. 403 (Brosimum). — Kl. Zinneea, xx. 



Jam. (1756), 372. (Aublet's names have priority, 522 (Brosimum). — Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3723, 



but generically are not to lie adhered to). — 3724 (Galactodendron). — Miq. 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 ground to be preferred to Aublet's lnd. 152 (Brosimum). 



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



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