Ficus. | CXXIIIc. MORACE (Hutchinson). 119 
forests, Welwitsch, 6404! Zenza do Golungo ; at the River Chiche and among 
the Mongolo and Calumguembo Mountains, Welwitsch, 6356 ! Cerone? ; borders 
of forests near Cacula, Welwitsch, 6354! Pungo Andongo; near aghuy and 
at the River Casalalé, Welwitsch, 6364! Mossamedes; River Bero, Welwitsch, 
6379! 6381! Loanda district, Gossweiler, 422! Malange district. Gossweiler, 
1004! 1008! Buchner, 548! Kisolle, Buchner, 553! Kakulo, Buchner, 
558 ! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Lake Tumba, Laurent! 
30. F. cordata, Thunb. Diss. Fic. 8, with figure. Branches 
somewhat elongated and straight, covered with yellowish-brown 
puberulous grooved bark ; young lateral branchlets short and twiggy, 
densely and softly tomentose. Leaves ovate-elliptic or oblong- 
elliptic, rounded or very slightly subcordate at the base, acutely 
acuminate, 14-43 in. long, 3-2 in. broad, rigidly coriaceous, equally 
strongly reticulate on both surfaces, glabrous ; midrib continued to 
the apex of the leaf-blade; lateral nerves 5-7 on each side of the 
midrib, looped and much-branched well within the margin, somewhat 
flexuous, equally prominent on both surfaces ; petiole 4-1} in. long, 
grooved when dry, glabrous ; stipules caducous, acutely acuminate, 
softly tomentose. Receptacles axillary, sessile or very shortly 
pedunculate, mostly in pairs, slightly depressed-globose, about } in. 
in diam., spotted, minutely puberulous. Basal bracts rounded, 
hairy outside, about one-third as long as the receptacles. Ostiole 
with 2 or 3 overlapping rounded bracts visible from the outside. 
Male flowers few, near the ostiolar bracts ; perianth membranous ; 
Stamen solitary. Female flowers subsessile, numerous. Achene 
smooth.—Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 33; Drége Zwei Pfl. Docu- 
mente, 97, 147, 148; Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 207. 
Urostigma Thunbergii, Mig. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. Vi. 556. 
F. glawcophylla, Desf. Tabl. 209, and Cat. Plant. Hort. Paris, ed. 3, 
346. F. tristis, Kunth et Bouché, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1846, 19. 
F. atrovirens, Hort. Berol. ex Mildbr. & Burret, lc., name only. 
F. cordata, var. Marlothii, Warb. in Schinz, Viertelj. Naturforsch. 
Ges. Ziirich, li. 137. 
Lower Guinea. Damaraland: Okahandya, Dinter, 275! 
Occurs also in South Africa. 
31. F. dicranostyla, Mildbr. in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 204. A small 
tree ; branchlets terete, softly and densely shortly tomentose when 
young, at length becoming puberulous or nearly glabrous. Leaves 
elliptic or oblong-elliptic, obtusely or subobtusely caudate-acuminate, 
Tounded at the base, 441-7 in. long, 2-3 in. broad, acumen about # in. 
long, entire, thinly and rigidly chartaceous, dull and very finely 
Scabrous on: both surfaces; midrib flat above, prominent below, 
about ? lin. broad at the base, minutely puberulous on both surfaces ; 
lateral nerves subopposite, 6-9 on each side of the midrib, distinct 
on both surfaces, more prominent beneath, looped three or four 
