Ficus.| CXXIlIc. MORACEH (Hutchinson). 121 
margin. Ostiole closed with transverse bracts; outer bracts hori- 
zontal, suborbicular, about 1 lin. broad, minutely puberulous, 
inner bracts gradually descending into the receptacle, a little more 
fleshy than the outer ones. Male flowers shortly pedicellate, with 
membranous perianth-segments and a solitary stamen. Female 
flowers sessile; perianth-segments membranous; style lateral, 
slender. Gall flowers pedicellate. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 1562! 
33. F. ingens, Mig. in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iii. 288. A tree or 
shrub ; young branchlets stout, with dull grey bark. Leaves ovate 
or oblong-ovate, rounded at the apex, deeply cordate or rounded- 
truncate at the base, 31-6 in. long, 2}4 in. broad, entire, chartaceous, 
glabrous, slightly shining above, finely warted between the veins 
below, finely reticulate on both surfaces, light glaucous-green when 
dry ; midrib flat above, prominent below, about 2 lin. broad at the 
base, gradually tapered to the apex; lateral nerves 8-9 on each 
side of the midrib, nearly equally prominent on both surfaces, 
diverging from the midrib at a very wide angle, prominently bifurcate 
3-j in. from the margin; tertiary nerves lax and reticulate, very 
slender like the veins; petiole 1-14 in. long, sulcate, glabrous ; 
stipules deciduous, not seen. Receptacles axillary, mostly in pairs, 
shortly pedunculate, globose, rounded at the base, 4-5 lin. in diam., 
warted when dry, glabrous or slightly pubescent ; peduncle 1-3 lin. 
long or shorter, stout, very slightly puberulous. Basal bracts 2, 
ovate, rounded at the apex, subpersistent, coriaceous. Ostiole closed 
with about 3 visible imbricate bracts spreading horizontally across it, 
hot conspicuous. Male flowers subsessile, with a solitary stamen. 
Female flowers sessile ; ovary smooth ; style slender. Gall flowers 
pedicellate-——Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 191; Warb. in Engl. 
Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 161. Urostigma ingens, Mig. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 
Bot. vi. 554. U. xanthophyllum, Miq. in Hook. Lc. U. caffrum, 
Mig. Afr. Vijge-Boom. 31. U. zanthophyllum, var. ovatocordatum, 
Sond. in Linnea, xxiii. 136. F. schimperiana, Hochst. ex A. Rich. 
Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 266, and in Ferr. & Galin. Voy. Abyss. Atlas, 
Bot. t. ii. F. axanthophylla, Steud. ex Mig. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 
Bot. vi. 554. F. caffra, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. ili. 288. F. 
pondoensis, Warb. in Viertelj. Naturforsch. Ges. Ziirich, li. 140. 
- magenjensis, Sim, For. Fl. Port. E. Afr. 99, t. xciii. fig. B. F. 
cordata, Sim, l.c. 99, not of Thunb. F. lutea, Mildbr. & Burret 
m Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 209, not of Vahl. F. Albersi, Warb. ex 
Mildbr. & Burret, l.c. 210, name only. 
. i : iver; Manpalago, Chevalier ! 
Gold Coast, Evans, oy tose  eeeetebalo, Kerating, 4311 Basari, Kersting, 
401! Northern Nigeria: Badegi, Lamb, 45! near Zaria, Lamb! . Southern 
Nigeria : Lagos, Foster, 25! Cameroons: Garua ; hills south of the Benue. 
Ledermann, 3472 | 3479 ! Dodo, Lederman, 2995 | 
