Ficus. | CXXIIIc. MORACE (Hutchinson). 117 
3-3 in. long, purplish, glabrous. Receptacles axillary, crowded 
towards the ends of the branchlets, shortly pedunculate or subsessile, 
globose, 34—4 lin. in diam., spotted, glabrous ; peduncle up to 1 lin. 
long, terete, glabrous. Basal bracts 3, whorled, ovate-orbicular, 
about $.lin. broad, glabrous. Ostiole only slightly protruded, with 
3 or 4 broad bracts visible from the outside and spreading across 
the mouth, glabrous or slightly puberulous; inner bracts rather 
fleshy, curved into the receptacle, glabrous. Male flowers sessile ; 
perianth-segments 3, ovate, obtuse, slightly fleshy, glabrous ; anther 
solitary, sessile. Female flowers subsessile; achene brightly 
shining; style longer than the achene, slender. Gall flowers 
pedicellate—F. salicifolia, Balfour, Botany of Socotra, 282 ; 
Warb. in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. ©. 162, partly; Mildbr. & Burret 
in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 206, partly; not of Vahl. F. salicifolia, 
var. australis, Warb. in Viertelj. Naturforsch. Ges. Ziirich, li. 
139. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Ahl Mountains, Hildebrandt, 1460! and without 
precise locality, Drake-Brockman, 418! 427! 435! 
Mozamb. Dist. Kilimanjaro: Lake Chala, Volkens, 1787! Portuguese 
East Africa: Ressano Garcia, Schlechter, 11909 ! 
Occurs also in Socotra and South Africa ; this species is the famous ‘‘ Wonder- 
boom ” of Pretoria. 
28. F. Lecardii, Warb. in Warb. & De Wild. Fic. Fl. Congo, 24, 
t. xi. figs. 1-2. A tree; leafy branchlets terete, softly pubescent 
when young, at length becoming glabrous or nearly so. Leaves 
thomboid-elliptic or ovate-rhomboid, gradually and obtusely 
acuminate, shortly cuneate at the base, 2$-4} in. long, 14-23 in. 
broad, entire, coriaceous, strongly reticulate and slightly shining on 
both surfaces, glabrous ; midrib slightly more prominent below than 
above, gradually tapered to the apex ; lateral nerves 9-12 on each 
side, looped near the margin, the loops forming an irregular semi- 
circle, like the veins prominent on both surfaces; petiole 1-2 in. 
long, very narrowly grooved on the upper side, softly pubescent when 
young, soon becoming quite glabrous; stipules very caducous, 
linear-lanceolate, acute, about } in. long, softly pubescent or 
puberulous outside. Receptacles axillary, in pairs, sessile, globose, 
shortly mammillate at the apex, about 4 lin. in diam., at first finely 
whitish-pubescent, at length glabrous, often brown-spotted when 
dry. Basal bracts broadly-ovate, rounded at the apex, nearly 
3 lin. long, slightly membranous, glabrous, brown when dry, 
Ostiolar bracts spreading horizontally across the ostiole, subreniform, 
emarginate, membranous, glabrous, the lower oblong, obtuse, 4 in. 
long. Male flowers few, near the ostiolar bracts ; perianth-segments 
elliptic-obovate, subacute, membranous ; stamen solitary ; filament 
Short and thick; anther small, with distinct cells. Gall flowers 
numerous, pedicellate ; perianth-segments 3, lanceolate, subacute, 
