ULMAOEJS. 211 



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

 Germen inferior subcentral, entirely , adnate to receptacle ; style 

 erect, somewhat dilated at base, 2-fld above ; branches 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, finally subterminal. {Trop. east, 

 littoral and insular Africa?) 



51. Piratinera Aubl.' — 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-nate, semiamplexicaul, deciduous; inflo- 

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

 compound. {Trop. central and south. Jmerica.^) 



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



' Bracts interior to stamens, sometimes re- Gen. n. 1861. — Teec. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, viii, 



present epigynous female calyx. 138, t. 6, fig. 163-181. — Bub. Prodr. xvii. 288, 



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



carene. vii. 163 



3 Guian. ii. 888, t. 340 (1775).— ? Ferolia * Spec. 7, 8, Tuss. Journ. de Bot. i. 202, t. 8 ; 



Abul. Gfuiati. Snppl. 8, t. 372. — Lamk. Diet. ii. Fl. M&d. Ant. t. 9 (Srosimum). — Spkeng, Sysf. 



452. — DC. Prorfr. xvii. 293. — Alicastrum'P. B^. i. 22; iv. 403 {Brosimtun). — Kl. Zinntea, xx. 



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



lut generically are not to he adhered to). — 3724 [Galactodendron). — Mia. Mart. Fl. Bras. 



Brosimum Sw. Fl. Ind. Oec. i. (1799), 17, t. 1, Utrie. 108, t. 32, 33.— aRiSEB. Fl. Brit. W.- 



fig. 1 (on no ground to be preferred to Aublet's Ind. 152 [Brosimum). 



name).— Spaoh, Suit. & Buffon, xi. 62.— Endl. ' Inst. 662, t. 420.— L. Ficus. Upsal (1786) j 



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