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ORDER CXLV. ARTOCARPACE-ffi. 



Milky trees or shrubs: leaves alternate, petioled, simple, 

 entire, or serrate, or pinnaMy or palmately lobed: stipules 

 free, caducous : flowers monoecious or dioecious, collected 

 together on fleshy, naked or involucrated receptacles, seldom 

 spiked: males rarely destitute of a perianth, stamens and 

 scales densely packed above a globose receptacle, usually with 

 a perianth placed upon a globose or club-shaped receptacle, or 

 more or less densely capitate or spiked, naked or bracteolate, 

 very often sessile on a flat or convex receptacle, surrounded by 

 a many-leaved involucre : perianth 2 — 3 — l-leaved, leaflets 

 usually connate into a tube : stamens as many as the lobes of 

 the perianth or fewer, inserted at the base and opposite them : 

 filaments filiform or linear, free or combined : anthers 2-celled, 

 dehiscing lengthwise : female fiowers solitary within an invo- 

 lucre, with or without a perianth, densely capitate or collected 

 on a globose receptacle : perianth limb 2 — 3 — 4-cleft or even 

 entire : ovary one, sessile, free, 1-celled : ovule one, style 

 terminal or lateral, often 2-cleft, lobes stigmatose, or undivided, 

 terminated by the simple lateral or radiately many-cleft 

 stigma: fruit various, surrotmded by a baccate or dry involucre, 

 or composed of fleshy consolidated calyxes, enclosing numerous 

 nuts: seed erect, parietal or pendulous; embryo with more 

 or less albumen, straight : cot;^ledons thick, fleshy, often very 

 unequal : radicle short, straight or incurved, directed towards 

 the vertex of the ovary. 



GENUS I. ANTIAEIS. 

 Monoeola Tetrandria. Sex: Syst: 



Gen. Chae. Plowers monoecious : male involucre many-flowered, 

 many-leaved, leaflets imbricated, connate at the base, surrounding 

 an orbicular, flat or convex receptacle : florets sessile, densely 

 packed : perianth 3 — 4-leaved : stamens 3 — 4, filaments very short: 

 anthers extrorse, 2-ceIled, cell opposite : female involucre 1-flowered, 

 urceolate, many-cleft at the apex : perianth none : ovary 1-celled : 

 ovule pendulous, anatropal : style terminal, 2-cleft, divisions filiform, 

 stigmatose : drupe formed from the fleshy involucre : seed pendulous. 

 — Trees or shrubs, milky : leaves alternate, very shortly petioled, 

 stipulate, imequal-sided, sub-cordate oblong, quite entire, repand or 

 denticulate, costately veined: peduncles axillary, sub-solitary, simple 

 or somewhat branched. 



