Ficus. } " OXXIIIc, MORACE (Hutchinson). 115 
caducous, lanceolate, acutely acuminate, about } in. long, finely 
puberulous or nearly glabrous, closely striate. Receptacles axillary, 
solitary or in pairs, pedunculate, globose, 3-44 lin. in diam., glabrous 
or minutely pubescent towards the ostiole, often reddish-purple when 
dry ; peduncle 1-3 lin. long, finely puberulous. Basal bracts 3, 
connate at the base, more or less ovate, obtuse, small, puberulous 
or nearly glabrous, ciliate. Ostiole slightly prominent, with several 
broad imbricate puberulous or glabrous bracts visible from the 
outside, the inner of these spreading horizontally across the orifice. 
Male flowers sessile; perianth-segments reddish, for some time 
enclosing the solitary obtuse anther. Female flowers sessile ; styles 
lateral, slender, with narrow stigmas. Gall flowers pedicellate.— 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 1004; Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. 
Jahrb. xlvi. 205. F. preruptorum, Hiern, l.c. ' F. palustris, Sim, 
For. Fl. Port. E. Afr. 99, partly, excl. figure. F. angolensis, 
Warb., F. Buchanani, Warb., F. chariensis, Warb., F. ndellensis, 
Warb., ex Mildbr. '& Burret, l.c. 206, names only. 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 1317! Kontagora, in 
marshes, Dalziel, 80! Cameroons: Korowal Plateau, in brooks, Ledermann, 
3865! Bakari, on the Mao Jerendi River, Ledermann, 2276! 
North Central. Eastern Shari: Ndelle, Chevalier, 6866! 7721! 8105! 
Nile Land. Uganda: Entebbe, in swamps, Bagshawe, 768! Unyoro, 
Bagshawe, 1561 ! tech 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla, Antunes, 192! Monino district, Wel- 
witsch, 6366! 6373! 6375! Longa River, Baum, 672! Bailundo district, 
Wellman! Malange district, Gossweiler, 1006 ! : 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Ruanda; Nyanza Mountain, 
Kandt, 18! Mohasi Lake, Mildbraed, 478! Nyasaland: Mlolo, Buchanan, 
125! 453! near Kankanja, Kirk! near Zomba, Cameron! Gazaland : near 
Chirinda, Swynnerton, 146b! Zona River, Swynnerton, 146a! Rhodesia : 
Barotseland ; near Sefula, Prosch, 11! forest near Salisbury, Flanagan, 3017 ! 
Portuguese East Africa: Inhambane, Sim, 5414! Ngamiland: Botletle River, 
Seiner, 192! 
Var. stipitata, Mildbr. & Burret, l.c. 206. Receptacles contracted at the base 
above the basal bracts into a short stipe. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Swamp at Garua, Ledermann, 3417! 4958! 
Mfongu, Ledermann, 5968 ! 
26. F. salicifolia, Vahl, Symb. i. 82, t. xxiii. A tree, sometimes 
somewhat climbing; branches covered with light brown bark ; 
young branchlets usually puberulous, soon becoming glabrous. 
Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, or rarely oblong, gradually 
and subacutely acuminate or obtuse at the apex, obtuse, rounded or 
slightly cordate at the base, 1-6 in. long (rarely up to 9 in. long), 
3-2 in. broad, entire, firmly chartaceous or subcoriaceous, sometimes 
purplish, equally reticulate on both surfaces, glabrous and mostly 
shining on the upper surface, conspicuously verruculose below, often 
densely so, sometimes glaucous-green when dry, distinctly 2-5-nerved 
a little above the base ; midrib flat or slightly raised above, prominent 
below, about } lin. broad at the base, gradually tapered to the apex ; 
