Ficm.] CXIX. UETICACEJ], 1465 



of 8 to 6 lobes or segments, imbricate in the bnd, rarely reduced to a single one. 

 Stamens 1, 2, or rarely more, opposite the perianth-segments; anthers 2-pelled 

 or the cells confluent at the apex, Female perianth usually with narr.o,\yer seg- 

 ments than the male and sometimes very much reduced or almost none. Styles 

 usually lateral, at least after the growth of the ovary, filiform with a terminal 

 peltate oblique or elongated and unilateral stigma. Ovule pendulous or laterally 

 attached near the top. Fruiting receptacle usually enlarged, but remaining 

 closed, the small seed-like nuts surrounded by the membranous or succulent 

 persistent perianth. Embryo curved, in a fleshy albumen usually rather scanty. 

 — Trees or shrubs with the juice usually milky. Leaves alternate or opposite, 

 entire or lobed, penniveined and usually more or less distinctly .S-nerved at the 

 base. Stipules usually very deciduous, convolute on the young buds. Recep- 

 tacles usually in pairs, or solitary by the abortion of one Of each pair, either 

 axillary or on the old wood, and then often forming clusters or racemes on short 

 leafless branchlets. Bracts usually 3, often small and scale-like either at the base 

 of the receptacle or along the pedicel below it. Bracts within the receptacle sub- 

 tending the flowers usually very numerous, varying with the perianth in con- 

 sistence and coloiir, those neai: the orifice of the receptacle usually rather larger, 

 without flowers and closing the orifice, the outermost rows sometimes exserted 

 and erect, but usually horizontal or inflexed, those subtending the flowers some- 

 times very minute or replaced by hairs or setse or obsolete. Male flowers usually 

 fewer than the females, and in the upper part of the receptaclfe, sometimes 

 numerous and intermixed with the females or in separate receptacles. 



A very large genus, spread over the tropical and subtropical regions of the New and the Old 

 World, but most abundant in the Indian Archipelago. 



Sect I. Urostig'ina. — Male perianth S-merous, rarely 5-G-meroiiit. Stamen 1 ; anther-cells 

 edistinct or confluent. Female 2)erianth i-6-merous. Htigma (in the Australian , species) 

 longated, acute. Leai-es alternate, entire, usually coriaceous. Receptacles usually, axillary. 



* Receptacle setose inside between the flowers. Male perianth 5 to Qmei'ous. Stamen exserted. 



Leaves ovate-cordate, denpely pubescent underneath 1. I'\ colosgea. 



•* Receptacle hracteate inside between the flowers. Male perianth S-merous, t longer than the 

 stamens. 



Leaves with rather distant principal jrimary veins and numerous transverse 

 reticulations, with a few smaller fine primary veins between the 

 principal ones. , . ■ 



Eeceptacles oblong, seesile. Stipules and young shoots usually hairy . 2. F. pilosa. 

 Receptacles globular or turbinate. 

 Petioles J to, lin. long. 

 Receptacles sessile or on a peduncle of 1 line, not' exceeding 5 lines 

 diameter. 



Leaves obtuse or shortly and obtusely acuminate S, F. nesqphila. 



Leaves abruptly and shortly acuminate i. F. Cuhninyhamii. 



Receptacles on pedtuicles of 2 lines, 4 to Jin. diameter 5. F. Henneana. 



Receptacles on peduncles of 4 to 5 lines, solitary or in pairs, about 



lin. diameter'' . ." . &. F. gracilipes. 



Petioles under Jin. long. Peduncles very short 1. F. validinervis. 



fj''. n!acrop/(.|/Ha and occasionally some other species of the following group, approach those 

 of the present group in venation.) ; 



Leaves with numerous parallel primary transverse veins all equal or every 

 third or fourth more prominent. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, mostly under 4in. 

 Receptacles sessile or on very short peduncles. 



Petioles, under 3 lines. tieaVes usually broad and very obtuse. 



Receptacles Jin. diameter 8. F.retuta. 



Petioles flattened, udder Jin. LeaVes oblong, 2 J to 5in. long, shortly 



acuminate. Receptacles peaVshaped more than Jin. long . . .9. F. Thynniana. 

 Petioles J to Jin. Leaves oblong-lanceolate or elliptical, scarcely; ' . .» 



acuminate. Receptacles |in. diameter 10. i''. eugenioides.i 



Petioles J to |in. Leaves ova'e-o.Mong, abruptly acuminate. 



Receptacles under Jin. diameter .,,,., 11. i*'. Hillii. 



