Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden Calcutta. Appendix

The entire period from the first appearance of the buds of a crop of galreceptacles to the escape of the fig-insects ranges between four and five months varying somewhat according to the character of the season ; two months intervening between until them full t their first appearance and the attainment of the stage of develop. [...] The inner surface of the stratum of galflowers was no longer composed of the stigmata but of the summits of the projecting cupolas of the ovaries and the cavity of the receptacle was full of fluid. [...] The main determinant of the change is the excessive growth of the gall-flowers in the peripheral area of the ostiolar aspect of the cavity for while the basal area of the male flowers remains almost unaltered that of the gall-flowers is very greatly increased and the accumulation of dense masses of enlarged ovaries in the deeper part of the concavity where the ostiolar and lateral faces of the [...] The interior of the cavity was of a pele umber tint over the area of the ostiolar bracts and the male flowers and dark umber over the rest of the surface due to the deep tint of the dry stigmata and styles. [...] or drying of the styles and stigmata which with the exception of the bases of the styles remain persistent up to the period of full maturation and after the perianth has dried up and the outer coats of the ovary and of great part of the axis of the flower have undergone gelatinous degeneration.