286 more a;. [Ficus. 
J-f in. thick, with 3 minute roundish reddish-brown basal bracts. 
TJrostigma terebrata, Miquel in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 558. 
Mauritius, in the forests of the Ponce, Grand-port and Savanne. Also Comoros 
and East Tropical Africa, and very near F. retusa of Tropical Asia. La Fouche 
bdtard. 
8. F. consimilis, Baker. A small tree, sometimes epiphytal, 
glabrous in all its parts, with slender terete branches. Leaves oblong, 
3-4 in. long, subcoriaceous, deltoid at the base and apex, with about 20 
pairs of distinct ascending main ribs ; petiole \-l in. long; stipules 
\ in. long, lanceolate, deciduous. Eeceptacles glabrous, globose, in. 
thick, clasped by 2-3 minute rounded bracts and supported on a { in. 
peduncle. 
Seychelles, common in all the islands, Wright ! Horne , 565 ! Closely resem- 
bling the East Indian F. nitida , Roxb. ; Wt. Icon. t. 642, except for its distinctly 
peduncled receptacles. Horne, 566, common in the Seychelles, has leaves similar 
in shape, texture, and veining, hut larger, reaching sometimes a foot in length. Mr. 
Horne describes it as a large tree, with useful timber, the receptacle of which is | in. 
thick, and much eaten by flying foxes ; and Dr. Balfour has a plant from Rodriguez 
precisely like this so far as leaves go, but of which the receptacle is not known. 
9. F. Bojeri, Baker. A small tree, glabrous in all its parts, with 
slender terete branches. Leaves membranous, green on both surfaces, 
ovate or oblong, acute, rounded or slightly cordate at the base, 4-6 in. • 
long, obscurely repand, with 6-8 distant pairs of main veins ; petiole 
1-1J in. long ; stipules minute, lanceolate, caducous. Eeceptacles 
globose, glabrous, in. thick, on a slender £ in. peduncle. 
Seychelles, in the woods of Mahe, at an elevation of 2000 feet, Horne , 342 ! 
564 ! Also Johanna Island, Bojer ! Dr. Meller ! 
I cannot make out that there is any ground for regarding Morns australis, Poir. 
Encycl. iv. 380, as a Mauritian plant. A specimen so labelled from Bourbon is not 
Broussonetia papyrifera, to which the synonym is referred by Bureau, but the common 
Mulberry of Tropical Asia, Morns indica, Linn., now regarded as a variety of M. 
alba. 
Order LXXXY. MONIMIACEiE. 
Flowers usually monoicous. Perianth saccate, that of the male flower 
splitting up into 4 sometimes 5 or 6 lobes, that reach down nearly to 
the base when the anthers are mature. Stamens indefinite, spread over 
the whole face of the perianth, all fertile or some abortive (staminodia) ; 
anthers 2-celled, with longitudinal dehiscence. Ovaries many in each 
flower, 1-celled, 1-ovuled ; style simple ; stigma capitate. Fruits dry or 
fleshy, crowded within the accrescent perianth-tube. — Trees or shrubs ; 
leaves entire, usually opposite ; inflorescence various. Distrlb. 
Tropical American and Asian, none Continental African. Species 
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