Ficus.] CXXIIIc. MORACE (Hutchinson). 99 
numerous and pointing into the receptacle, somewhat fleshy, glabrous. 
Male flowers not seen.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 1015 ; Mildbr. 
& Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 193. F. corylifolia, Warb. in Warb. 
& De Wild. Fic. Fl. Congo, 27, incl. var. glabrescens, Warb. l.c. 28 ; 
De Wild. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 203. 
Upper Guinea. Ivory Coast: Bingerville, Chevalier, 17348! Gold Coast : 
Prahsu, Cummins, 5! Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 1623! 3832! Johann- 
Albrechtshéhe, Biisgen, 172! Victoria, cultivated in the botanic garden, 
Winkler, 24! Molundu; between Lokomo, Bumba and Bange, Mildbraed, 
4385 ! 
Nile Land. Uganda: Usoga, Dawe! Toro, Bagshawe, 1022! Buddu, 
Dawe, 309 ! 
Lower Guinea. St. Thomas Island, Quintas, 167! Spanish Guinea, 7'ess- 
mann, 13a! Gaboon, Klaine! Lower Congo: Kisantu, Gillet, 815! 12591! 
1309! and without precise locality, Smith! Angola: Golungo-Alto ; banks of 
the River Cuango, Welwitsch, 6389 ! 6416! : 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Monbuttu; Munza, Schweinfurth, 3377 ! 
3452! Kwa Muera, north-west of Fort Beni, Mildbraed, 2325! New Antwerp, 
Seret, 16! and without precise locality, Dewévre, 681! : 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara Mountains; Amani, 
Engler, 736! Zimmermann, 64! Dar-es-Salaam, Holtz, 2565 ! 
Cultivated specimens seen in the Brussels Botanic Gardens. 
According to Dawe, this is a large spreading tree from which canoe-like troughs 
used in making banana beer are obtained. 
7. F. sidifolia, Welw. ex Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i, 1018. 
A large tree 30-70 ft. high; trunk 14-23 ft. in diam., divided a 
little above the base into tortuous twisted branches, clothed with a 
reddish ferruginous bark; branchlets stout, purplish, glabrescent 
in their lower parts, densely villous with dark brown hairs in their 
upper parts. Leaves rounded-ovate, cordate at the base, slightly 
unequal-sided, shortly acuminate, 33-10 in. long, 23-8 in. broad, 
chartaceous, repand crenate-dentate, setose-pilose on both surfaces, 
more densely so below; lateral nerves 4-6 on each side of the 
midrib, diverging from it at an angle of 45°, slender ; petiole 13-7 in. 
long, densely hispid’; stipules caducous, broadly ovate, cuspidate, 
s+ in. long, hispid at the base and on the midrib, otherwise glabrous. 
Receptacles (according to Welwitsch) as large as the common fig 
(F. Carica), smooth when ripe, peach-coloured, paniculately clustered 
on their own branchlets produced on the trunk and thicker branches. 
Male flowers with a 3-partite perianth ; segments broad, imbricate 
and enveloping the two stamens; filaments short. Perianth- 
Segments of the female 3, linear-subulate; style lateral, rather 
long.—Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 262; De Wild. in 
Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 229. 
L i : lungo Alto; near Sange, Welwitsch, 6421! 
foireata of pore as nee and Bote de Quilombo, Welwitsch, 6345! near 
Canguerasange, Welwitsch, 6348 ! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Lukombe, Sapin ! 
