Ficus. | CXXIIIc. MORACE (Hutchinson). 97 
8429! Rhodesia : Sabi River, Swynnerton, 1002a! Chimbabava River, Lower 
Buzi River, Swynnerton, 1002 ! Kalouw, Rogers, 8204 ! 
Occurs also in Egypt, Arabia, and the Comoro Islands. 
There is a good illustration showing the habit of this tree in Karsten and 
Schenck, Vegetationsbilder, ii. t. 56. 
4. F. mallotocarpa, Warb. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 154. A tree 
10-30 ft. high or more with the habit of an Alder ; sap watery-viscid 
rather than milky ; trunk whitish, erect ; branches smooth, spread- 
ing, glabrous; branchlets numerous, spreading, softly tomentose 
towards the tips or sometimes nearly glabrous. Leaves evergreen, 
ovate or oblong-ovate, rounded, obtuse or shortly acuminate, rounded 
and often a little unequal-sided at the base, 24-11 in. long, 14-5 in. 
broad, subchartaceous, coarsely and irregularly obtusely repand- 
dentate, 3-nerved at the base, slightly pubescent on the nerves and 
veins or rarely glabrous above, rather densely pubescent with soft 
spreading hairs below especially on the midrib and lateral nerves, re- 
maining lateral nerves 5-7 on each side of the midrib, slightly arcuate, 
diverging from the midrib at an angle of about 45°, looped and 
branched near the margin, prominent on both surfaces especially 
below ; tertiary nerves lax, subparallel; reticulation minute, delicate ; 
petiole up to 32 in. long, pubescent or almost tomentose ; . stipules 
caducous, ovate-lanceolate, subacutely acuminate, about } in. long, 
coriaceous, densely adpressed-pubescent outside, glabrous within. 
Receptacles sometimes on separate crowded panicles borne on the 
lower part of the trunk, or sometimes on the same tree solitary in 
the axils of theleaves on the ultimate branchlets, pedunculate, globose, 
{+1 in. in diam., densely and softly villous-tomentose ; peduncle 
2-4 lin. long, rather stout, tomentose or shortly pubescent. Basal 
bracts 3, small, rather coriaceous, becoming glabrous. Ostiole 
inconspicuous, or at length with the bracts considerably projecting, 
the outer bracts broadly ovate, shortly pubescent, the innermost 
descending into the receptacle, linear, obtuse, about 2 lin. long, 
glabrous. Male flowers with 1-4 stamens. Female flowers with 
narrow acute membranous perianth-segments. Gall flowers _pedi- 
cellate—Warb. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 161, t. ix. F. clethro- 
phylla, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 1017; Mildbr. & Burret 
in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 262. F. capensis, var. guineensis, Hiern, |.c. 
1016, not of Mig. F. capensis, Mildbr. & Burret, ].c. 195, partly, not 
of Thunb. F. capensis, var. mallotocarpa, Mildbr. & Burret, le. 
198. F. capensis, var. mallotocarpa, forma pubifolia, Mildbr. & 
Burret, lc. 199. F. kiboschensis, Warb., F. kondeensis, Warb., and 
F. kwaiensis, Warb. ex Mildbr. & Burret, l.c. 197-199, names only. 
PS ge Guinea. Fernando Po: Musola, above San Carlos, Mildbraed, 
t 
Ni iti ica : i, Grant in Herb. Battiscombe, 816! 
winemnar Vg rey ever Golnnge ‘Alo: various localities, Welwitsch, 6335! 
6341! 6342! 6414! 6422! 
FL. TROP. AFR. VI. SECT. Il. PART I. H 
