112 CXXIIIc. MORACE2 (Hutchinson). [ Ficus. 
at the base, or pinnately 3—5-lobed and then cuneate at the base, 
2-4 in. long, 14-2 in. broad, rigidly chartaceous, scabrous on both 
surfaces; midrib slightly raised above, prominent beneath, about 
i lin. broad at the base, gradually tapered to the apex; lateral 
nerves 6-8 on each side of the midrib, arcuate, looped very close to 
the margin, prominent below ; tertiary nerves very lax and branched, 
distinct below ; veins rather close, impressed above, distinct below; 
petiole 4 in. long, thickened towards the base, slightly pubescent ; 
stipules deciduous, linear-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, 3 lin. long, 
about 1 lin. broad, finely puberulous on the outside, with a distinct 
midrib. Receptacles axillary, solitary or in pairs, pedunculate, 
globose or obovoid-globose, about 5 lin. in diam., scabrous, with a 
prominent ostiole ; peduncle }-4 in. long, rather slender, puberulous. 
Bracts scattered on the peduncle, and a very few small ones on the 
receptacle, broadly ovate, hairy. Ostiole with numerous bracts 
visible from the outside, spreading horizontally across the orifice, 
more or less broadly ovate, the outer slightly puberulous, the rest 
glabrous. Male flowers not seen. Female flowers subsessile ; 
perianth-segments linear, acute, slightly ciliate; achene obliquely 
ellipsoid ; style lateral, slender, with a reddish stigma.—Miq. in 
Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 564, t. 15, fig. B.; Mildb. & Burret 
in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 202; De Wild. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. Ii. 
200. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Tano River, Chipp, 342! Southern Nigeria: 
Abo, Vogel, 47! Epindo, Foster, 327! Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 
135! Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 1940! mouth of the Bange River, Mildbraed, 
4474 ! forest between Lokomo, Bumba and Bange, Mildbraed, 4420! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Kamba, Laurent! Bombata, Allard! 
A specimen without figs collected by Scott Elliot (5130) near Musaia in the 
Talla Hills, Sierra Leone, is probably this species. 
22. F. storthophylla, Warb. in Warb. & De Wild. Fic. Fl. 
Congo, 32. Ashrub about 8 ft. high or a small bushy tree ; branchlets 
terete, scabrid-pubescent. Leaves alternate, obovate-oblanceolate, 
narrowly caudate-acuminate, 3-64 in. long, 14-24 in. broad, rigidly 
chartaceous, pinnately and laciniately lobed or repand-dentate, 
scabrous and dull above, very roughly scabrous and pubescent 
below; midrib slightly prominent but very narrow above, much 
more prominent and broader below, 3-3 lin. thick at the base, 
gradually tapered to the apex of the acumen ; lateral nerves about 
6 on each side of the midrib, diverging from it at an angle of about 
45°, in the lobed leaves continued to the tips of the lobes, in the 
toothed leaves faintly looped and branched very close to the margin, 
prominent and straw-coloured below; tertiary nerves slender and 
more or less flexuous, rather lax and prominent below; veins very 
slender and lax; petiole }-4 in. long, strigose-pubescent ; stipules 
early deciduous. Receptacles axillary, mostly solitary or sometimes 
paired, shortly pedunculate, globose, about 44 lin. in diam., rather 
