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53; Sparattosyce Bur.I— Flowers dioecious (of Flcus) sepals of 

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

 persistent calyx drupaceous ; flesh scanty ; putamen osseous. Seed 

 descending ; cotyledons of exalbuminous 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.^ — Flowers dioecious ; male calyx 4-fid or 

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

 linear ; anthers ovate, extrorsely 2-rimose. Cjalyx of female flower 

 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 *) 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. (BrasiL^) 



65 ? Pseudosorocea H. Bn.^ — 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. So. Nat. ser. 5, xi. 379, t. 6 ; Frodr, subfasciate not regularly racemose. 



xvii. 282. ' Spec. 3, 4, Gaudich. Voy. Sonite, Bot. t. 



2 Spec. 2 ofwhioh. oneis tmpu'blished(BrB.) 71-74.' — H. Bn. Adansonia, i. 212, t. 6. — 

 ' A. S. H. Mem.Mua.yii.i'lS (1821).— Bndl. Wawea. Pr. Maxim. Brgehn. Bol. 130.— Mic. 



Gen. n. \&6i.—1s.ic. Ann. Sc. Nat.iir. Z.-^in. Mart. Fl. Bras. Urtic.lli.t. 34. — Walp. ^w«. 



145, t. 6, flg. 183-188.— Bub. Pro<fr. xvii.. 288. - i. 667. 



— Sareodiscus Makt. Herb. (Mia.) H, Bn. Adansonia, xi. 'J.'J&. 

 ■■ Eeceptacle unequally ramose or rathe 



