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densely setose and with a very few scattered bracts disposed here and 
there over the surface ; peduncle about 1 lin. long, hispid, with 2 
or 3 small scattered bracts disposed upon it. Bracts very small, 
ovate, pubescent. Ostiole large and slightly protruding, with 
numerous bracts exserted from the mouth ; ostiolar bracts spreading 
across the orifice, most of them slightly ascending, with their tips 
inflexed or the outer suberect, all more or less oblong-elliptic, rounded 
at the apex, membranous. Male and gall flowers in one receptacle, 
the former numerous, pedicellate ; perianth-segments 5 or 6, unequal, 
oblanceolate-linear, obtuse, membranous, glabrous ; anther solitary ; 
filament very short. Female flowers in separate receptacles, 
pedicellate ; perianth more or less as in the male but more fleshy and 
not ciliate; achenes oblique, smooth; style nearly as long as the 
achene, slender. Gall flowers pedicellate; perianth-segments 6, 
oblanceolate-linear, obtuse, minutely ciliate in the upper part, 1} lin. 
long. Receptacular scales small and hair-like, white —F. paludicola, 
Warb. in Warb. & De Wild. Fic. Fl. Congo, 32, t. xii.; De Wild. Etudes 
Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 236; Th. & Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. 
Congol. 507. F. urceolaris, Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 
201, partly, not of Welw. 
Nile Land. Niamniam: Atoboroo River, Schweinfurth, 2834! Uganda: 
Ruwenzori; Yeria, Scott Elliot, 7760! Mubuku Valley, 5000 ft., Scott Elliot, 
7625! Kampala, Scott Elliot, 7329! 7497! east side of Lake Albert Edward, 
Scott Elliot, 8049! Entebbe, Mahon! Bagshawe, 708! Busiro, Dawe, 
111! North Kitontogolo, Ussher, 75! Nyanza Basin, Moon, 587! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Fort Beni, Mildbraed, 2387! 2403! 
west side of Lake Albert Edward, Mildbraed, 1954! : : 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Wau Island in Lake Kivu, Mild- 
braed, 1159! Ruanda, Kandt, 137! Lake Mohasi, Mildbraed, 570! 571! 
Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 1140! 1511! 3636! 
Mildbraed and Burret have united this species with F. wurceolaris, 
Welw.; the specimens quoted above differ from that species in the more 
coriaceous, more deeply divided and rougher leaves, and densely setose 
receptacles. 
23. F. variifolia, Warb. in Warb. & De Wild. Fic. Fl. Congo, 
30, t. xv. Branches hanging (Schweinfurth); branchlets finely 
longitudinally sulcate, thinly pilose, at length glabrous, reddish- 
brown when dry. Leaves variable, some quite entire, oblong or 
oblong-elliptic, shortly cordate at the base, obtusely ca.date- 
acuminate, 6-8 in. long, 2}-34 in. broad, others 3-lobed in the upper 
third, lobes spreading and forming a wide sinus, gradually obtusely 
acuminate, scabrous and with a few scattered setose hairs on the 
upper surface, scabrous below and pilose only on the midrib and 
teral nerves, 5-nerved at the base; midrib flat above, prominent 
below, about 2 lin. broad at the base, gradually narrowed to the 
apex of the leaf ; lateral nerves 9-14 on each side, diverging from the 
midrib at an angle of about 75°, slightly arcuate, those running into 
the lobes slightly more prominent than the others, looped quite close 
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