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

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

 m< rate, intermixed on the same receptacle or oftencr separate. 

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

 stigma 1 ), 2 (P/taniiacosycea"), or 4-6, oppositisepalous ; filaments 

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

 or stipitate, oftener 1-locular ; 3 style lateral, at apex simple, subu- 

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

 within receptacle ; ovule descending, anatropous 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 branchlct, 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. (All trop, and temp, regions}) 



Gen.n. 1168.— Adans. Faut, des PI. ii. 377. — 

 — J. Gen. 400.— G.SSRTO. Fruct. ii. 60, t. 91.— 

 Lamk. Diet. ii. 489; Suppl. ii. 648 ; III. t. 861. 

 — Turp. Diet. Se. Nat. Atl. t. 285.— Spai ii, 

 Suit, à Buffim. xi. 54. — Endl. Gen. n. 1859. — 

 Gaspahk. Nov. Gen. quœ sup. nonnull, Fici spec. 

 ...(1844) ; Rie. s. nat. d. Ficn ed. Caprifico (1845) ; 

 Nov. rie. s. aie. punt...doetr. d. Fieo e de Capri' 

 Jieo. — Tkéc, Ann. Se. Nat. sér. 3, viii. 137. — 

 Payek, Organog. 285, t. 61 ; Fam. Nat. 170.— 

 Bur. Proclr. xvii. 287 (incl. : Bosscheria de 

 Vriese et Teysm. (Buu.). — Cariea Mia. (a part 

 of which is Capr\ficus Gasp. Nov. Gen. 6; Hie. 

 79, t. 1-3. Didymnphora Mia. Eriosycea Mia. 

 Kissosyeca Mia. Leiosyeea Mia. Nematosycea 

 Mia. Podosycea Mia. Trematosycea Mia.).-- 

 Covellia Gasp. Nov. Gen. 10; Sic. 85, t. 8, fig. 

 36-42 {Sycomorphe MiQ. Ann. Se. Nat. sér. 3, 1, 

 35). — Erosma Both. Cut. 113. — Erythrcgym 

 Vis. (tasp. Sic- 86. — Plagiostigma Zunc. Abh. 

 Ak. Munch, iv. 64 (Tenorra Gasper.). — Pegono- 

 trophe Mia. Hook. Journ. vii. 72. — Sycomorus 

 Gasp Sic. 78. — Mia. Hook. Land. Journ. vii. 

 109. — Synxcia Mia. Hook. Land. Journ. vii. Hi!). 



1 Gasp. Nov. Gen. 7 ; Sic. 81, t. 7.— Mia. 

 Hook. Journ. vi. 225; Mart. Ft. Bras. Urtic. 

 90, t. 27-31. — Oystogyne Gasp. Nov. Gen. 9; 

 Sic. 84, t. 8. — VUiania Gasp. Nov. Gen. 9 (not 

 DC.).— Macrophthalma Gasp. Rie. 83t. 8.— Mia. 

 JLiol-, Journ. vi. 225.— Galoglychia GAsr. Nor. 

 Gen. 10 ; Sic. 84 (S.ueoearpa Mia.). 



- Mia. Hook. Loud. Journ. vii. 64 ; Mart. Fl. 

 Bras. Vtrie. 83, t. 25, 26. 



3 Sometimes very rarely 2, 3-locular. 



1 Spec, ahout 600 (Bur.). Thunii. Ficus Gen. 

 Upsal (1786). — K. Envm. Fie. H„rt. Bend. 

 (1846), Ami. Se. Nut. sér. 3, vii. 231.— Mia. 

 Prodr. Mou. Fie. Hook. London Journ. (1847, 

 1818) ; Journ. Bot. Neerl. i. 230 ; Zoll. Ver:, ii. 

 90; Plant. Juuy/i. 46; Ft. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 

 293; Suppl. i. 173, 124; Ann. Mus. ln.,d.-Bat. 

 iii. 261, 285, 297.— Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 266.— 

 A. Rich. S. S. Culm, xi. 220.— GlUSEB. Ft. Brit. 

 W.-Ind. 150.— Seem. /•'/. Vit. 247.— Benth. Fl. 

 Hong/c. 326; 77. Austral, vi. 160. — Gren. et 

 Godr. Ft. de Fr. iii. 103.— Walp. Ann. i. 706 ; 

 iii. 417. 



