Ficus. | CXXIIIc. MORACEZ (Hutchinson). 127 
about 1 lin. thick at the middle, broader towards the base, slightly 
grooved when dry; stipules caducous, lanceolate, acuminate, 
about 23 lin. long. Receptacles on the 2-5-year-old branches and also 
on the trunk, 2 or 3 or even 6 to 8 together, but mostly in fours, 
pear-shaped, 1-14 in. long, 3-1} in. in diam., green or yellowish, 
smooth, densely beset with small whitish scarcely elevated spots ; 
peduncles slightly flattened, 3-1 in. long, narrowly sulcate, finely 
puberulous. Basal bracts soon deciduous. Ostiole sunken, 2-lipped, 
with small bracts. Male flowers not seen. Female flowers with long 
slender styles. Gall flowers long-pedicellate—Mildbr. & Burret 
in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 223 ; De Wild. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 201. 
F. Marquesti, Warb. ex Mildbr. & Burret, l.c., name only. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; forests of Quisuculo in Sobate 
Bango and in Sobato Quilombo, Welwitsch, 6338! 6419b! Lunda-Kassai 
_ : Malangi, Marques, 65! between Cammondai and Prototypo, Gossweiler, 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Kapalumba, Sapin ! 
41. F. dryepondtiana, Gentil in Rev. Hort. Belg., 1906, 85, with 
Stem simple, terete. Leaves spreading or slightly drooping, 
oblong, gradually or subcaudately acuminate, cordate at the base, 
9-13 in. long, 34-4 in. broad, chartaceous, with undulate entire 
margins, dark green and slightly shining on the upper surface, purple 
below, minutely puberulous on the midrib and lateral nerves below, 
otherwise glabrous, 5-nerved at the base, remaining lateral nerves 
about 7 on each side, subopposite, looped and branched some distance 
from the margin, prominent below ; veins rather lax, distinct below ; 
petiole 13-3 in. long, terete except for a shallow groove on the upper 
surface, glabrous; stipules persistent, linear from a broad base, 
very acute, with recurved folded margins, 1-1} in. long, about } in. 
broad at the base, dark brown, glabrous. Receptacles fasciculate 
on short very thick cushion-like branchlets borne on the older leafless 
branches, about 9 in each fascicle, pedunculate, globose, 14-1} in. 
m diam., covered with greenish-white spots, densely tomentose when 
quite young, becoming pubescent ; peduncle 4-5 lin. long, rather 
stout, glabrous or very minutely puberulous ; basal bracts 2, broadly 
ovate, obtuse, subcoriaceous, about 1} lin. long, puberulous outside. 
Ostiole inconspicuous, circular, 2-lipped ; bracts all descending into 
the receptacle, linear-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, 3-34 lin. long, 
lin. broad, subcoriaceous, keeled, glabrous. Male flowers not seen. 
Female flowers shortly pedicellate ; perianth-segments lanceolate, 
subacute, glabrous. Achene smooth ; style lateral, longer than the 
achene, with a large fleshy stigma.—Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. 
Ixvi. 262 ; De Wild. in Fedde, Repert. xii. 303 and in Bull. Soc. Bot. 
Belg. lii. 205. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Molundu district, Mildbraed, 4388! 4430! 
4447! Bumba, Mildbraed, 4506 ! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Libreville, Klaine, 576! 1277! 
