Sycidium.—Flowers unisexual; male and gall flowers in one set of receptaclea,
fe-rlih female flowers in a óhiinct set of receptacles; male flowers xcith 1
slamen {sometimes 2 in Nos. 83, 93, 99, and 102) ; leaves alternate; receptacles
sviall, mare or less scabrid, aañllary or in a few species in fascicles from
the stem; shrubs, small trees, or climbers, rarely epiphytal.
Leaves variable in shape, more or less ooate, often irregularly hbed.
Aa erect shrub, receptacles pyrifonn. in axillary fascicles . . . . S2. F. purpiiytiscens.
„ ovoid-globose, in paii'S, axillary . . . . 83. F. Bholanica.
Small grouud creepers.
Receptacles half an inch or mora in diameter 84. J^. heterophylla.
ReceptaclüS le^^s tliaa half aa inch ia diameter, never pyriform . 85. F. querci/oUa.
Leaves more or kss ovate or elliptic, not lobed, nor much contracted in the lower third, mostly ambrid.
A creeping shrub 86. P. nitjrescem.
Trees or erect shi'ubs.
Leaves equally cordate at the base 87. i^. hderopoda.
Leaves unequally cordate at the base 8S. f . semicordata.
Leaves not cordate at the base.
Softly tomectose on the lower, scabrid on tlie upper snrface. 89. F. conjiigata.
Pubescent on the lower, lepidote on the upper surface; receptacles
1-5 inch in diameter 90. P. conspicobilis,
Scabj-id-hispid on both surfaces.
Receptacles '5 inch or more in diameter, lateral primary
nerves asceuding 91, F. asperrima.
Receptacles less than -o inch in diameter, nerves
transverse 92. J'. SicüJwei.
Leaves elongate, ovale, or ohovate, conspicuously nairowed in the hicer third.
Leaves very inequilateral; receptacles axillai'y or in fascicles from
tlic stem 93. P. ohcura.