118 CXXIIIc. MORACE (Hutchinson). | Ficus. 
3 lin. long, membranous ; ovary stipitate, obovoid, minutely pitted, 
with a lateral style and large stigma. Female flowers sessile ; 
perianth as in the gall flowers but shorter ; ovary triquetrous, shining ; 
style lateral, slender, about half the length of the ovary; stigma 
small.—Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 208. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal: without precise locality, Lecard, 197! Bellamy, 
467! Northern Nigeria: Yola Province on rocky hills, Dalziel, 143! 
Cameroons: Kokumi Hills, on the River Benu, Ledermann, 4756! Garua, 
Ledermann, 3505! Lagdo Hills, Ledermann, 4371! Tschamba, Ledermann, 5238 ! 
29. F. Welwitschii, Warb. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 160. A lofty 
tree up to 130 ft. high, never seen to throw out aérial roots (Wel- 
witsch); trunk always straight, moderately thick; head dense, 
ovoid-oblong ; branches suberect, repeatedly divided ; young leafy 
shoots mostly softly tomentose but sometimes quite glabrous and 
always becoming so when mature. Leaves ovate or ovate-elliptic, 
long and acutely caudate-acuminate, cordate or rounded at the 
base, 24-64 in. long, 14-3} in. broad, entire, rigidly chartaceous or 
rarely submembranous, glabrous and closely reticulate on both 
surfaces, sometimes slightly shining, often finely punctate on the 
lower surface ; midrib slightly more prominent below than above, 
glabrous ; lateral nerves about 10 on each side, arising from the 
midrib at an angle of about 65°, looped well within the margin, like 
the veins prominent on both surfaces ; petiole 1}-23 in. long, slender, 
subterete, glabrous; stipules very caducous, linear, acute, 14-2 im. 
long on the newly opened shoots, membranous, pubescent outside 
on the lower part. Receptacles axillary, sessile, solitary or in pairs, 
subglobose, obtusely mammillate at the apex, 3-4. lin. in diam., 
thinly pubescent or nearly glabrous when ripe. Basal bracts 3, 
imbricate, broadly ovate, rounded at the apex, about 1} lin. long 
and broad, coriaceous, finely and rather thinly pubescent outside, 
glabrous within. Outer ostiolar bracts about 3, imbricate, spreading 
horizontally over the mouth of the ostiole, suborbicular, the remainder 
also spreading horizontally, ovate or oblong-ovate, rounded oF 
truncate at the apex, membranous. Male flowers several, near the 
ostiole, subsessile ; perianth-segments 4, obovate-elliptic, rounded 
at the apex, 3 lin. long, membranous ; stamen solitary ; filament 
+ lin. long; anther } lin. long. Gall flowers numerous, scattered 
amongst the female, pedicellate ; perianth-segments 4-5, oblanceolate, 
subacute, membranous. Female flowers sessile: perianth more oF 
less as in the gall flowers; style lateral, subpersistent.—Hiern 0 
Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 998; Mildb. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 
208 ; De Wild. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 235. F. Welwitschui, vat. 
beroensis, Hiern, l.c. 999. F. Pireiri and F. urophylla, Welw. eX 
Mildbr. & Burret, l.c. 209, names only. F. malangensis, Warb. eX 
Mildbr. & Burret, l.c. 209, name only. 
Lower Guinea. Belgian ae Lower Congo, Smith, 42! Pechuel-Lische ! 
Angola: Ambriz ; Quibanga, Welwitsch, 6355! Libongo ; in the more elevated 
