carica_; ♀-plants, which have only seed-flowers, and bear the edible Figs, and ♂-plants (called “Caprificus”), which bear inedible fruits, and have ♂-flowers at the upper part of the Fig, but gall-flowers at the base. [The Caprificus, at Naples, bears three crops of inedible Figs each year, viz. _Mamme_ (April), _Profichi_ (June), _Mamnoni_ (August). The ♂-flowers are produced especially in June, the first Figs being almost entirely ♀, and the last having but few ♂-flowers. Each crop produces a new generation of Fig-wasps. The female wasp enters the Figs on the Caprificus, and lays one egg in each flower, with the result that the flower developes into a kind of gall. The mother-wasp dies within the Fig. The male wasp is wingless; it bites a small passage into the ovaries containing the female wasps, and impregnates them; the female wasps then escape from the Fig, those in the _Profichi_ carrying pollen away with them as they pass out. They then enter another Fig, lay their eggs, and die. The edible Fig-tree similarly has three crops in the year, _Fiori di fico_, _Pedagnuoli_, _Cimaruoli_. The wasps, entering these Figs, are unable to lay their eggs in the ovary, but, nevertheless, they effect cross-pollination on entering the _Pedagnuoli_, which bear fertile seeds.]~ [Illustration: FIG. 345.--A Fig in longitudinal section.] The flowers of _Brosimum_ are the most reduced. The perianth is wanting, and the ♂-flower has only 1 stamen. _Cecropia_ (Trumpet-tree), in S. Am., has its pith divided into chambers; these are inhabited by ants, which feed upon small food-bodies formed on the swollen base of the petioles. The leaves are petiolated, often shield-like, fringed or lobed, and sometimes with white felted hairs. They serve as food for _Bradypus_ (the Sloth). _Sorocea_; _Castilloa_.