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53. Sparattosyce Bur. 1 — Flowers dioecious (of Ficus) sepals of 

 male calyx 3-6, auriculate at base, imbricate. Fruit stipate with 

 persistent calyx drupaceous ; flesh scanty ; putamen osseous. Seed 

 descending ; cotyledons of exalbuniinous embryo broad conduplicate- 

 involute and corrugate. Stamens in male flower 3-6, opposite sepals; 

 anthers short extrorse ; cells subglobose extrorsely rimose. Sepals 

 of female flower 6-10, imbricate. Germen sessile ; ovule, etc., of 

 Ficus ; styles exserted in mouth at top of female receptacle. — Trees ; 

 leaves alternate entire; stipules amplexicaul closely covering the 

 terminal bud, deciduous ; inflorescences of Ficus ; receptacles of both 

 sexes finally laterally divided and expanded. [New Caledonia.-) 



54. Sorocea A. S. H. 3 — Flowers dioecious ; male calyx 4-fid or 

 4-partite, imbricate. Stamens 4, opposite; filaments sometimes 

 linear ; anthers ovate, extrorsely 2-rimose. Calyx of female flowcr 

 superior perigynous, tubular or conical ; mouth narrow subentire. 

 Germen inferior 1-ovulate ; style short thick, 2-lobed at apex ; lobes 

 stigmatose short divaricate exserted. Fruit baccate with receptacle 

 sometimes muricate, 1-spermous ; cotyledons of exalbuminous em- 

 bryo 2 ; one large conduplicate enfolding the other very small and 

 superior short radicle. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves distichous, sub- 

 entire, serrate or spinoso-dentate ; stipules axillary, 2-nate ; flowers 

 in axillary (spurious 1 ) racemes, intermixed with peltate remotely 

 scattered bracts ; females inserted in hollowed apices of branches ; 

 mature fruit sustained by swollen ramule (lobe) of ramiform recep- 

 tacle. (Brazil. 5 ) 



55 ? Pseudosorocea H. Bn. 6 — Flowers dioecious (nearly of 

 Sorocea) ; male calyx 4-partite ; lobes concave, decussately imbri- 

 cate. Stamens equal in number and opposite to sepals ; filaments 

 very short inserted around vacant centre of receptacle, connate at 

 base and there oftener dilated sometimes broadly subpetaloid ; 

 anthers short, oftener subovate, adnate extrorse, longitudinally 

 2-rimose. Female calyx semisuperior urceolate ; style branches 2, 



1 Ann. Sc. Sat. sér. 5, xi. 379, t. 6 ; Prodr. subfasciate not regularly racemose. 



xv ii. 282. ' Spec. 3, 4, Gaudich. Voy. Bonite, Bot. t. 



2 Spec. 2 of which one is unpublished (Bur.) 71-74.— H. Bn. Adansonia, i. 212, t. 6.— 



3 A. S. H. Mém. Mus.ya.i7S (1821).— Endl. Wawra. Pr. Maxim. Enjebn. Bo(. 130.— Mic. 

 Gen. n. 1864.— Tkéc. Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 3. viii. Mart. FI. Bras. Urtiô. 112. t. 34.— Wau. Ann. 

 1 1."., t. 6, fig. 183-1S8.— Bur. Prodr. xvii. 288. i. 667. 



—Surcodiscus JIaut. Herb. (Mia.) H. Bn. Adansonia, xi. z!)6. 



'■ Receptacle unequally ramose or rathe 



