Freus. | CXXIIIc. MORACE2 (Hutchinson), 103 
Dewévre, 164! West side of Lake Albert Edward, Mildbraed, 1973! 
AAA Beni, Mildbraed, 2385! Monbuttu: Munza, Schweinfurth, 3426! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Stuhlmann, 797! German East Africa: 
Usambara, Engler, 904a ! Sibili, Holst, 469! 2302! 2367! Kwai, Albers, 
151! 365! Uluguru Mountains, Goetze, 218! Kibata, Busse, 3110! Bukoba, 
Mildbraed, 202! Mugarura Island, Mildbraed, 1103! Rovuma River, Kirk! 
Portuguese East Africa: Lusite Valley, Johnson, 165! Rhodesia: Matoppos, 
Engler, 2861a ! Bulawayo, Rand, 399! 
Occurs also in South Africa and the Cape Verde Islands. 
11. F. Vallis-Choude, Del. in Ann. Sci. Nat. 2me sér. xx. 94. 
A large tree; young branchlets glabrous. Leaves scattered, 
broadly ovate, rounded or slightly cordate at the base, obtuse at 
the apex, 4-8 in. long, 3-7 in. broad, very coarsely and obtusely 
repand-dentate in the upper half or rarely subentire, thinly chartaceous 
or almost membranous, dull and glabrous on both surfaces or rarely 
Shortly pubescent below; midrib flat above, prominent below, 
gradually tapered to the apex of the blade, with three principal 
herves at the base; lateral nerves opposite or subopposite, the 
lowermost pair ascending to above the middle of the lamina, with 
prominent side nerves on the side next the margin ; tertiary nerves 
subparallel, arcuate between the lateral nerves; veins slender 
and distinct below ; petiole 14-24 in. long, glabrous or nearly so ; 
stipules deciduous, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, 4-3 in. long, glabrous 
or slightly puberulous outside. Receptacles axillary, solitary, 
pedunculate, pear-shaped or subglobose, about 12 in. in diam. 
when ripe, minutely puberulous ; peduncle } to nearly $ in. long, 
Stout and woody, glabrous. Basal bracts small and soon falling 
off. Ostiole large and slightly produced; bracts numerous, the 
outer exserted and ascending, coriaceous, ovate-triangular, glabrous, 
the innermost descending vertically into the receptacle, linear, 
obtuse, l-nerved, } in. long, with membranous margins, glabrous. 
Male flowers sessile ; perianth membranous, enclosing the 2 stamens 
and a rudimentary pistil; anthers large, acutely apiculate. Female 
flowers subsessile ; style slender, with a large stigma. Gall flowers 
pedicellate—Ferr. & Galin. Voy. Abyss. Atlas, Bot. t. i; Warb. 
im Warb. & De Wild. Fic. Fl. Congo, 26, t. xxiii. ; Mildbr. & Burret 
m Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 194. Sycomorus schimpervana, Miq. in Hook. 
Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 112 and in Afr. Vijge-Boom. 12, t. 1. KF: 
Schwein furthii, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 295, name 
only, descr. in Verhandl. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, xviii. 686. F. 
annenbergii, Warb. and F. grandicarpa, Warb. ex Mildbr. & Burret 
Le. 195, names only. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Berria, Scoft Elliot, 4980! Buyabuya, 
Scott Elliot, 4289! Trandh Guinea: Middle Niger ; Bammako, Ucpent 
6! Togo: Misahéhe, Baumann, 467! Bismarckburg, Bittner, 732! So ode, 
Schroder, ~ 29 | Kersting, 34! Losso, Kersting, 351! Northern Nigeria : 
