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becoming fleshy, and forming a dense oblong mass half a foot long on 
a cylindrical receptacle, of which few of the ovaries pass into fruits. 
Jacquier. 
1. BOSQUIEA, Thouars. 
Flowers male and female crowded on a small open receptacle, many 
males without any perianth, consisting of a single stamen only, round 
a single central female flower, consisting of a membranous lacerated 
perianth or circle of bracts, a 1-celled 1-ovuled ovary immersed in 
the receptacle with a single ovule pendulous from its apex, and a style 
with two subulate forks stigmatose on the inner side. — Trees, with 
alternate entire leaves, caducous fig-like stipules, and receptacles on 
short peduncles in the axils of the leaves. Distrib. Two other species 
in Madagascar. Baillon Adansonia iii. p. 338, tab. 10. 
1. B. gymnandra, Baker. A tree, 15-20 feet high, glabrous in all 
its parts, with slender terete branchlets. Leaves obovate-oblong, dis- 
tinctly cuspidate, deltoid at the base, subcoriaceous, glossy on both 
sides, with 15-16 pairs of erecto-patent main veins, which anastomose 
in abrupt arches just within the border ; petiole £ in. long ; sti- 
pules small, glutinose, lanceolate, caducous. Keceptacles plate-shaped, 
\ in. broad, with an obscurely lobed limb, and short peduncle obconi- 
cally dilated at the top. Stamens without any bract or perianth ; 
filament and connective slender, the former as long as the oblong 
anther. Female flower surrounded by about four lacerated lanceolate 
membranous scales. 
Seychelles, at low elevationsjin all the islands, but not common, Horne , 417 ! 
and perhaps also 578 ! of which we have no flowers. Endemic. 
2. FICUS, Linn. 
Flowers monochlamydeous, monoicous, placed inside a hollow recep- 
tacle with a small orifice at the top, usually a few males at the top and 
the rest females. Perianth in the Mauritian species 2-3-cleft with 
lanceolate divisions. Stamens 1-2, with adnate 2-celled anthers 
and a stout filament. Ovary oblique ; style simple or forked, subulate. 
Fruit consisting of the enlarged receptacle ; achenes minute, surrounded 
by the persistent perianth. — Trees or climbing shrubs with copious 
milky juice, clasping stipules, alternate leaves, and receptacles sessile 
or ped'uncled in the axils of the leaves, or on barren branches. Dis- 
trib. Cosmopolitan in the tropics. Species 300-400. 
Sect. Sycomorus (Gasp.). Receptacles large, turbinate, 
usually produced on leafless branches. 
Leaves toothed, pilose beneath 1. F. mauritiana. 
Leaves entire, glabrous from the beginning. 
Leaves cuneate at the base 2. F. sapotoides. 
Leaves cordate at the base 3. F. ayresii. 
Sect. Urostigma (Miq.) Receptacles small, globose, produced 
on leafy branches. 
