Ficus. | CXXIjIc. MORACEZ (Hutchinson). 125 
entire, membranous or subchartaceous, glabrous and dull on both 
surfaces, 5-nerved at the base; midrib flat on the upper surface, 
prominent below, about 1 lin. broad at the base, gradually tapered to 
the apex of the blade; lateral nerves about 7 on each side of the 
midrib, diverging from it at an angle of about 45°, slender, prominent 
on both surfaces, bifurcate about $—3 in. from the margin ; lowermost 
pair and the pair above opposite, the others alternate or subalternate ; 
veins very close and slender, forming a delicate reticulation below ; 
petiole slender, up to 43 in. long, finely sulcate, very minutely 
puberulous ; stipules early deciduous, lanceolate-acuminate, 5 lin. 
long, subcoriaceous, glabrous. Receptacles arranged in fascicles 
on thick woody outgrowths from the old wood, pedunculate, sub- 
globose, about 14 in. in diam. when dry, wrinkling like a dried plum, 
glabrous or very minutely and sparingly pubescent; peduncle 
3-3 in. long, 1 lin. thick, glabrous. Basal bracts 3, broadly triangular. 
Ostiole slightly impressed, with the bracts all descending into the 
receptacle. Male flowers with 3-4 lanceolate perianth-segments 
and a solitary stamen. Female flowers with 3 ovate-lanceolate 
obtuse perianth-segments; style long and slender with a short 
slightly oblique stigma.—Pers. Syn. ii. 608; Roem. & Schult. Syst. 
1.499 ; Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 778 ; Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. 
xlvi. 222. Urostigma politum, Mig. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 
553. F. syringifolia, Warb. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 170, not F. syringe- 
folia of Kunth & Bouché. F. pseudo-elastica, Welw. ex Hiern in Cat. 
Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 996. F. niamniamensis, Warb. in Warb. & De Wild. 
Fic. Congo, 14, t. xx. F. umbrosa, Sim, For. Fl. Port. E. Afr. t. 
Ixxxviii. excl. fig. of receptacles. F. barombiensis, F. stenosiphon, 
F, syringoides, F. pachysarca, Warb. ex Mildbr. & Burret, l.c. 
222-223, names only. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal: by the River Casamanze, Chevalier, 2662! Iton, 
Chevalier, 2663! without locality, Isert. French Guinea: Los Islands, Pobé- 
guin, 1233! Konakry, Dybowski,6! Ivory Coast: Basin of the Cavally River 
at Beriby, Chevalier, 20008! Gold Coast: Krepi Plains, Johnson, 549! 551! 
Togo : Ndsolo, Baumann, 561! Kete Kratschi, Zech,4! Northern N igeria : 
Zungeru, Dalziel, 568! Katagum district, Dalziel, 321! Southern Nigeria : 
erri district, Sherriff! Cameroons: Barombi, Preuss, 409! Victoria 
botanic garden, Winkler, 428! Neu-Tegel, Winkler, 207! 
North Central. Central Shari: Koulfé, Chevalier, 8784 bis! 8832! 9002! 
‘Nile Land. Mittu: near Mvolo, Schweinfurth, 2826! Niamniam: by the 
Linduku River, Schweinfurth, 3134! ; : 
wer Guinea. Angola; Golungo Alto; near the River Cuango, Welwitsch, 
6344! Chella Mountains, Welwitsch, 6365! Sange, Welwitsch, 6396, 6397 ! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: south bank of the Kassai, Luja, 212! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: without locality, Stuhlmann! 
Portuguese East Africa : Magenja da Costa, Sim, 5549! 
Loar persiicarpa, Hutchinson. Receptacles shortly stipitate, 24 in. in diam., 
Spotted. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Molundu district ; between Lokomo, Bumba 
and Bange, Mildbraed, 4421 ! 
Sim’s figure of his F. wmbrosa shows the receptacles sessile and stipitate, 
but in his type specimen they are long-pedunculate and rounded at the base. 
