78 CXXIII,. MORACEH (Rendle). [Neosloetiopsis. 
14 lin. long, puberulous as in the male. Ovary with style 1} lin. 
long ; stigmas 14 lin. long. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; in deep shade of forest 
at Mombo, about 2100 ft., Engler, 3263. 
7. NEOSLOETIOPSIS, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. li. 426. 
Flowers dicecious. Male: sepals 4, concave or the two outer 
hooded. Stamens 4; filaments longer than the sepals, free, inflexed 
in bud ; anthers shortly ovate, dehiscing laterally ; a central rudi- 
mentary pistillodium is present. Female: sepals 4 (?), closely imbri- 
cate round the ovary. Ovary ovoid, contracted above into a short 
columnar style which projects above the perianth and bears a pair 
of filiform subulate stigmas; ovule solitary, pendulous from the apex. 
Fruit unknown.—A shrub, with slender branchlets which are very 
minutely hairy when young but soon become glabrous, and bear a 
thin bark when mature. Leaves shortly petioled, alternate, simple, 
somewhat stiffand leathery, oblong, acuminate. Stipules caducous. 
Male flowers borne on both sides of a linear compressed receptacle 
subtended by orbicular peltate bracts. Female flower solitary on a 
short receptacle, which is covered with scale-like ovate bracts. 
Species one, endemic. 
Scarcely separable from Sloetiopsis from which it differs in having the male 
and female flowers on distinct plants and in the reduction of the female 
inflorescence to a single flower. 
1, N. kamerunensis, Engl. l.c. fig 1. A shrub with the habit 
of a young Mesogyne or Tryphostemma, with twigs 1 lin. or less in 
thickness and internodes 14-2 in. long. Leaves 4-43 in. long, 14-14 
in. wide, abruptly acuminate with a bluntish point, 7 lin. long and 
1 lin. wide ; lateral nerves 6-7 on each side, spreading, uniting within 
the margin, prominent on the lower surface, venation remotely 
reticulate, somewhat prominent ; petiole 2-24 lin. long. Stipules 
somewhat stiff, about equal in length to the petiole, puberulous. 
Male inflorescence sessile, many-flowered, 7-10 lin. long, 13-2 lin. 
thick. Peltate bract about 4 lin. in diam. ; sepals about 4 lin. long. 
Female inflorescence very short; ovary about 24 lin. long; style 
with the 2 arms about 5 lin. long. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Molundu; forest between Lokomo, Bumba 
and Bange at about 15° 15’ E. long., and 2° 50’ N. lat., Mildbraed, 4331. 
8. FICUS, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 367. 
Flowers moneecious or very rarely dicecious, enclosed in a variously 
shaped fleshy or somewhat woody receptacle (jig). Male flower : 
perianth 2-6-lobed or -partite, lobes or segments imbricate, usually 
