The anatomy of the syconia and flowers in the sycomore fig (Ficus sycomorus) has been studied. The developmental course of the ovules and pollen grains and their ultimate structure were found to be ...

Forty-two leaf epidermal features in 20 Nigerian species of Ficus, representing three of the four subgenera and four of the seven sections of the genus found in Africa have been examined.

The fruit of Ficus sycomorus, or “Egyptian fig,” seems to be invariably infested with the insect Sycophaga crassipes, Westw.; which I am informed by Rev. T. F. Marshall, who has kindly given ...