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ULMACEJS. 
[Sponia. 
broad in the axils of the leaves, dichotomous with spreading main 
branches ; bracts lanceolate, persistent, as long as the buds. Perianth 
in. long, green and naked on the outside, pilose within. Drupe ovoid, 
glabrous, in. long, surrounded by the persistent perianth. S. Wightii, 
Planch. ; Wight , leones , 1. 1971. 
Var. S. Commersonii, Pecne.; Planch, in PC. Prod. xvii. 198. 
Leaves not so firm in texture and the pubescence of the under surface 
less abundant and not white, sometimes vanished when the leaf is 
mature. S. guineensis, Schum. ; Plawch. in PC. Prod. xvii. 197. Trema 
Commersonii, Blume. 
Var. S. aefinis, Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. 1848, 329 ; PC. Prod. xvii. 
198. Leaves as coriaceous and scabrous as in the type, clothed below 
with thicker softer grey pubescence. Celtis madagascariensis, Bojer. 
Sort. Maur. 296. 
Seychelles, in Mahe,in elevated rocky woods, Perville! Wright ! Horne , 322 ! I can- 
not draw any clear line of demarcation between these four species of Dr. Planch on’s. 
The wild Seychelles plant is a connecting form between vars. 1 and 2. We have 
typical specimens of vars. 1 (Sieber, 250 ! Carmichael !) and the extreme glabrescent 
form of var. 2 (Carmichael !) from Mauritius, where it is probably introduced only. 
Bojer says var. 3 is established on the heights of Plaines Wilhelms and round 
the Mare aux Yacouas. Through Tropical Asia, Tropical Africa and Matal. 
Andaraise. 
Order LXXXIY. MOREJE. 
Flowers monochlamydeous, rarely achlamydeous, polygamo-monoi- 
cous or dioicous. Perianth calyx-like, 3-0-merous, polyphyllous or 
gamophyllous, rarely absent. Stamens 1-6 ; filaments subulate, 
usually indexed in bud ; anthers 2-celled, dehiscing longtitudinally. 
Ovary 1-celled ; ovule solitary, basal or lateral ; style subulate, simple 
or forked. Fruit dry or fleshy. Seed usually albuminous. — Trees or 
shrubs, often climbing, with milky juice, alternate petioled leaves, 
stipules rolled together in vernation, and leaving an annular scar when 
they fall, and copious minute flowers variously arranged, one or both 
sexes spicate or clustered, or inserted on an open or closed discoid 
receptacle. Distrib. Warmer regions of both hemispheres. 
Species 800. 
Flowers in unisexual masses outside a cylindrical receptacle . * Artocarpus. 
Flowers many males round one female on a plate-shaped 
receptacle 1. Bosquiea. 
Flowers of both sexes crowded inside the same hollow recep- 
tacle 2. Ficus. 
* Artocarpus integrifolia , Linn. Suppl. 412 ; Eoxb. Cor. PI. t. 250 ; 
Bot. Mag. tab. 2833-4, the Jack-tree, a native of Tropical Asia, is culti- 
vated and casually wild in Mauritius, the Seychelles and Kodriguez. 
It is a tree, with large coriaceous caducous clasping stipules, large 
usually entire obovate-oblong alternate petioled coriaceous penni- 
nerved leaves, monoicous flowers congested in dense unisexual spikes, 
male perianth 2-3-cleft, stamen 1, and fusiform concrete fruit-perianths 
