172 A FLORA OP MANILA 



36. MORACEAE (Mulberry, Fig, or Balete Family) 



Shrubs or trees, sometimes vines, usually with milky sap, rarely her- 

 baceous, with alternate or opposite, entire, toothed, or lobed leaves, the 

 stipules present, often early deciduous. Flowers small, unisexual, often 

 monoecious, densely crowed on the outside of small or large, fleshy, globose 

 to elongated, thick or slender receptacles, or covering the inside of a closed 

 receptacle. Male flowers with from 2 to 6, usually 4, perianth-segments, 

 which are imbricate or valvate, free or more or less united below. Stamens 

 as many as the segments, sometimes only 1. Female flowers with usually 

 4, rarely fewer or more segments, often more or less enlarged and enveloping 

 the achene at maturity. Ovary 1-, rarely 2-celled, superior, half-superior, 

 or inferior; styles or stigmas 2 or 1, simple or branched; ovules solitary, 

 pendulous. Fruit various, composed of numerous more or less united 

 carpels, each surrounded by its accrescent fleshy perianth, rarely dry, 

 sometimes (Ficus) the individual fruits borne on the inside of .a fleshy, 

 closed receptacle. 



Genera 67, species about 1,000, chiefly in the tropical regions of both 

 hemisphers, few in subtemperate regions, 13 genera and about 150 species 

 in the Philippines. 



1. Flowers and mature fruits borne on the inside of a closed receptacle. 



1. Ficiis 

 1. Flowers on the outside of the receptacle. 

 2. Erect shrubs or trees. 

 3. Trees with large fleshy fruits, each composed of numerous ripened 

 carpels with their fleshy pericarps, forming a variously tubercled,- 



echinate, or roughened syncarp 2. Artoearpui' 



3. Fruits small. 



4. Female flowers solitary or few together, pedicelled; fruit usually 



a solitary carpel _ 3. Streblus 



4. Female flowers numerous, crowded; fruit composed of many 

 carpels. • 



5. Trees with distichous, pinnately nerved leaves, the flowers in 



bracteate, usually lobed receptacles 4. Castilloa 



5. Shrubs with palmately 3- or 5-nerved leaves, the flowers in 



dense short spikes 5. Morua 



2. Climbing shrubs or vines. 



3. Unarmed _ 6. Malaisia 



3. Armed with stout, often elongated spines , 7. Cudrania 



2. A small suffrutescent herb, the male and female flowers intermixed, 

 in small, axillary, peduncled heads 8. Fatoua 



1. FICUS Linnaeus 



Trees or shrubs, often climbing, with milky juice. Leaves alternate or 

 opposite, entire, toothed, or lobed, smooth or rough. Flowers minute, very 

 numerous, on the inner wall of a closed usually ovoid or globose, -fleshy 

 receptacle, the receptacles axillary or variously arranged on the trunk 

 and larger branches. Male flowers with a 2- to 6-fid perianth. Stamens 

 1 or 2, rarely more. Female flowers with a perianth as in the male or 

 imperfect or none. Ovaiy usually oblique. Achenes small, crustaceous. 

 (The ancient Latin name.) 



