110 CXXIlIc. MORACEZ (Hutchinson). [ Ficus. 
1010. F. colpophylla, Warb. in Warb. & De Wild. Fic. Fl. Congo, 
31. F. scolopophora, Warb. |.c. 33. F. xiphophora, Warb. l.c. 34, 
t. ix. and x. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Lomie; near the River Jah, Mildbraed, 
5405! Molundu; Old French frontier, Mildbraed, 4785! near Victoria, 
Winkler, 449! Fernando Po: Musola, upper part of San Carlos, Mildbraed, 
7010! Bokoko, Mildbraed, 6900! 
North Central. Shari district: Ndelle, Chevalier, 7932! 
Nile Land. Niamniam; on the Nabambisso river, Schweinfurth, 2999! 
British East Africa: Nyanza Basin; Malama’s, Baitiscombe, 680! Uganda: 
Buddu, Scott Elliot, 7436! : 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 222! Belgian 
Congo: Kinsuka, Vanderyst! Kisantu, Gillet, 169! 433! 1294! Imese, 
Laurent! Angola: Golungo Alto; mostly near streams in various localities, 
Welwitsch, 6336! 6390! 6394! 6402! 6403! Cazengo district, Gossweiler, 
703 ! 4438 ! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa; Walegga district, Stuhlmann, 
2922! Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 982! 1594! 
Described partly from living plants in the Brussels Botanic Gardens, kindly 
placed at my disposal for study by Dr. E. De Wildeman. 
20. F. exasperata, Vahl, Enum. ii. 197. A tree up to 70 ft. 
high, with spreading branches and soft grey smooth bark; sap 
watery, viscid; branchlets twiggy, slender, scabrid-pubescent. 
Leaves elliptic or obovate-elliptic or rarely suborbicular, rounded 
or slightly cuneate at the base, up to 54 in. long, 1}4 in. broad, 
finely denticulate, rarely crenate or 3-lobed, chartaceous, very 
scabrous on both surfaces ; midrib prominent below ; lateral nerves 
3-5 on each side of the midrib, the lowermost pair ascending to the 
middle or beyond the middle of the blade, with numerous looped 
side-nerves connecting it with the margin; tertiary nerves numerous 
subparallel, prominent, spreading at right angles across the blade; 
petiole 4-1 in. long, scabrous ; stipules early deciduous. Receptacles 
axillary on the young shoots or towards their base, solitary or M 
pairs, pedunculate, obovoid or subglobose, up to } in. in diam., 
roughly scabrous; peduncles 1-33 lin. long, densely scabrous; 
with the basal bracts scattered along it and also sometimes here and 
there on the receptacle; bracts ovate, obtuse, small, sometimes 
all towards the base of the peduncles but never arranged in a regular 
whorl. Ostiole slightly prominent, with numerous imbricate bracts 
spreading across the mouth and visible from the outside ; ostiolar 
bracts subequal, the lower curving into the receptacle, linear-oblong; 
obtuse, membranous and translucent, 1-nerved, very finely ciliate 
around the upper part, otherwise glabrous. Male flowers few, 
subsessile; perianth-segments 4—6, linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, 
2 lin. long, membranous, pubescent in the upper part. Stamen 
solitary, sessile, about }]lin.long. Female flowers shortly pedicellate ; 
perianth-segments similar to the male; ovary smooth; style 
lateral, about as long as the ovary, 2-fid—Miq. in Hook. Lond. 
Journ. Bot. vii. 231, t. 14, fig, C; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 161; Hiern 
