Ficus. | CXXIIIc. MORACEZ (Hutchinson). 95 
acuminate, rounded or slightly cordate at the base, 4-8 in. long, 
13-5 in. broad, rather coarsely undulate-dentate, thinly chartaceous 
or almost membranous, glabrous above except for a few hairs some- 
times on the midrib, long-pilose with rust-coloured hairs chiefly on 
the midrib and lateral nerves beneath ; midrib slightly raised above, 
prominent below, scarcely } lin. broad at the base; lateral nerves 
€-7 on each side of the midrib, the basal pair opposite, the others 
subopposite to alternate, diverging from the midrib at an angle of 
45°, slightly arcuate, looped close to the margin, distinct above, 
prominent below ; tertiary nerves subparallel, 2-3 lin. apart, linking 
the lateral nerves at right angles, prominent below; veins rather close 
but rather indistinct below ; petiole 3-23 in. long, at first pubescent, 
at length glabrous or nearly so ; stipules subpersistent, lanceolate or 
ovate-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, about 4 in. long,submembranous, 
glabrous. Receptacles paniculate, mostly at the base of the trunk 
(Vogel) ; panicles long and slender, leafless, up to 2 ft. long ; lateral 
branches up to 24 in. long, glabrous or slightly pubescent. Recep- 
tacles somewhat obovoid, a little more than } in. in diam., setose- 
pilose with yellowish hairs. Basal bracts 2, slightly connate at the 
base, ovate, about 13 lin. long and broad, pilose. Ostiole prominent ; 
bracts spreading horizontally across the ostiole, rounded, membranous, 
glabrous, the innermost ones descending into the receptacle, linear. 
Male flowers sessile, near the ostiole; perianth-segments unequal, 
membranous, enclosing the pair of stamens like a cloak. Female 
flowers subsessile with long slender styles. Gall flowers pedicellate.— 
Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 193. F. stellulata, Warb. 
in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 152. Sycomorus vogeliana, Miq. Afr. Vijge- 
Boom. 13 and in Hook. Niger Fl. 522. 
Upper Guinea. Ivory Coast: between Kassigne and Atteou, Chevalier, 
17087 ! Southern Nigeria : River Niger, Vogel! Oban, Talbot, 89 ! Cameroons: 
Ambas Bay, Mann, 702! Bipinde, Zenker, 1704! Barombi, Preuss, 550! Victoria, 
Preuss, 1323 ! Neu Tegel, Winkler, 194 ! near Dipika, Ledermann, 442! Batanga, 
Dinklage, 381! Fernando Po: San Carlos, Mildbraed, 6794! Bokoko, Mild- 
braed, 6967! and without precise locality, Vogel, 179! 
Lower Guinea. Spanish Guinea: on the Abea River and near Uelleburg, 
Tessmann, 11! 392! 
Var. latifolia, Hutchinson. Leaves rounded-elliptic, about 9 in. long and 
6 in. broad. 
Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria: near Lagos, Rowland, 18! : 
One of Vogel’s sheets in the Kew Herbarium is marked “St. Vincent, Cape 
Verde,” but this is probably an error, as the specimen seems to be part of his 
179 from the Fernando Po. 
3. F. Sycomorus, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 1059. A large tree with 
spreading crown; young branchlets with a circle of long slender 
hairs just below each node, otherwise glabrous or nearly so. Leaves 
suborbicular or ovate-orbicular, rounded or obtuse at the apex, 
cordate or rounded at the base, 2-5 in. long, 1#-3} in. broad, 8 
entire or slightly undulately toothed, dull and glabrous on bot 
