972 BENGAL PLANTS. (Ficus. 
lobed, serrate or toothed; stipules clothing the bud, caducous. 
Flowers minute, 1-sexual, monccious, very rarely dicecious, on 
the i inner walls of a fleshy receptacle, the mouth of which is closed 
by imbricate bracts ; florets often mixed with bracteoles, of four 
forms: male, female, gall and, rarely, neuter ; receptacles sometimes 
1-sexual, but usually androgynous, the males nearest the mouth ; 
, and galls ma 
males and galls in one set, females only in another. ¢ Sepals 
connate in a 2-6-fid or -partite perianth. Stamens 1 or 2, rarely 
3-6, erect in bud. Neuters; Sepals asin males. ¢ Sepals as in 
males, or imperfect or obsolete. Ovary straight or oblique; ovule 
oo style excentric; stigma entire or 2-armed, acute 0 or 
obtus Gall florets; Sepals as in females. Ovary containing 
tacle, its inner wall studded with crustaceous or fleshy achenes. 
Seed pendulous; testa membranous; albumen scanty; embryo 
curved ; cotyledons equal or unequal ; radicle ascending. 
Pseudo-hermaphrodite, male flowers with one stamen and a rudimentary 
pistil in one series of receptacles; fertile female flowers in a different 
series (§ Pale@omorphe) :— 
Stipules at least twice as long as the petioles, subulate, more than an 
are gpa aoe with apices abruptly caudate; female sa 
ee aE ES ae Ne SNRs SC BR, es ie ee ook tae ibulata. 
Btipnles not chaiker than the petioles :— 
Stipules -3-5 in. long, ovate-lanceolate ; female perianth partite to 
the base: 
Leaves ae ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, minutely tubercled 
beneath ; nerves lucid gibbosa var. cuspidifera. 
Leaves broad, rhomboid, seabrid on both euriace: nerves opaque 
gi ar. parasitica. 
a very minute, subulate ; sare ovate- lie, abruptly 
udate ; female perianth gamophyllou rophylla. 
Unisoxnal or a male flowers without 1 ees itn 
*Male, and fertile female flowers in the same receptacle 
(§ rd a): —([p. 975] 
*25-1'5 in. long, rarely (F. —— eee is 
oa as 2 in. long, and then with petiole +, stiff, and | 
siceinciail rigid ; ; receptacles in pairs, axi toy dé from scars of 
fallen leaves :—[p. 974] 
rere eet cere 
