1464 CXiX. URTlCACfi^. [Pseudomorus. 



so into 2 linear stigmatic branches. Ovule pendulous. Fruit a small drupe, 

 surrounded by the persistent perianth and crowned by the style branches ; 

 the epioarp succulent, the endocarp crustaceous or almost ■ woodyi Seed 

 pendulous with a membranous testa ; albumen very scanty or none ; ■ embryo 

 curved ; cotyledons semiglobular ; radicle incumbent, ascending. — Tree or 

 shrub with a milky juice. Leaves alternate. Stipules small, deciduous. 

 Inoflrescences axillary. , 



The genus is limited to the single Australian species, whioh extends into New Caledonia 

 and Norfolk Island. 



1. P. Brunoniana (after Dr. E. Brown), Bureau in Ann, Sc. Nat. ser. 5, xi. 

 372; Benth. Fl. Austr. vi. 181. A tall shrub or small tree, attaining sometimes 

 30 or 40ft., glabrous or nearly so. Leaves very shortly petiolate, elliptical ovate- 

 lanceolate, or lanceolate, mostly acuminate, denticulate, 1\ to 4in. long, penni- 

 veined, often slightly pubescent on the underside especially on the nerves apd 

 sometinies scabrous above. Spikes solitary in the axils, sessile or shortly peduncu- 

 late, the males usually not above lin. long sometimes lengthening to 2 or 

 even Sin. Perianth-segments about \ line long. Female spikes very small, 

 usually containing only 3 or 4 flowers, each within a minute bract. , Berries 

 globular, the size of a currant or sometimes rather larger. — Moms Brunoniana, 

 Endl. Atakta, t. 32 ; M. pendulinar, F. Bauer, in Endl. Prod. Fl. Norf . 40 ; 

 Streblus Brunoniana and 5. pendulina, F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 192. 



Hab.: Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, A, Cunningham, F. v. Mueller and others; Eoekampton, 

 O'Shanesy, Bowman; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 

 Wood light-yellow, close-grained, hard and tough. — Bailey's Cat. Ql, p'pfids^ A'p. 388^,- 



6. *DORSTENIA, Linn. 

 (After Theo. Doi:sten.) 



Flowers monoecious, crowded on a flat simple or lobed androgynous receptacle. 

 Male flowers: Perianths more or less connate and adnate with the receptacle, 

 obscurely 2-lobed or toothed. Stamens 1 to 3, inflected in the bud. Pistillode 

 none. Female flowers : Deeply sunk in the receptacle ; perianth-mouth almost 

 closed. Qvary included, style exceutric or lateral, branches 2, subulate ; ovule 

 pendulous. Achene minute, crustaceous. Albumen none ; cotyledons subequal, 

 contorted, embracing the upourved radicle. — Herbs or small shrubs. Leaves 

 alternate or radical, entire or lobed ; stipules lateral. 



Species American, African and Indian. 



1. I>. arifolia (Arum-leaved), Lam. Encyd. Meth. ii. 317, llhistr. t. 88, 

 f. 2. Stem short. Leaves sagittate-hastate, the lobes obtuse or acute, 6 to 8in. 

 long, li to 2iin. broad at the base, on petioles of from 5 to 9in. Peduncles long 

 as the petioles. Eeceptacles with the margins irregularly lobed. — -Lodd. Bot. 

 Cab. t. 999 ; Brazil. Fl. iv. 1, page 166, t. Ix. 



Hab.: Brazil. 'Becoming a weed in many bushhouseg. 



This genus is given on account of the species mentioned having become a weed in several 

 bushhouses, and probably in a few years may become naturalised in the damp scrubs. 



7. FICUS, Linn, 



(Old Latin name for the Fig-tree). 



(Urostigma and Covellia, Gatp.) 



Flowers unisexual, minute, enclosed in a hollow globular ovoid or pear shaped 



receptacle called a. fig or ayncecium; the minute orifice closed by bracts turned 



inwards, or the first rows erect outwards. Male flowers usually near the mouth 



of the receptacle, very rarely in separate receptacles and often very few. Perianth 



