128 CXXIIIc. MORACE (Hutchinson). | Ficus. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Welle district; near Poko, Seret, 650! 
Kwango district ; Madibi, Lescrauwaet, 98! Limbuta, Laurent, 1355! Lake 
Foa, Sapin! Bombe, Gentil! and without precise locality, Body! 
Described chiefly from living plants in the Brussels Botanic Garden and at 
Kew ; the receptacles were collected by Sapin. According to Body the leaves 
are employed in native medicine as a cure for plague. 
42. F. elegans, Mig. in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iii. 288. A 
tree about 40 ft. high ; young branchlets rather stiff, leafy towards 
the apex, very minutely puberulous. Leaves obovate or obovate- 
elliptic, very shortly and obtusely pointed at the apex, slightly 
narrowed to a very obtuse base, 3-44 in. long. 13-2} in. broad, entire, 
thinly chartaceous, dull and glabrous on both surfaces, finely dotted 
above ; midrib flat above, very prominent below, about ? lin. broad 
at the base, gradually tapered to the apex ; lateral nerves about 11 on 
each side of the midrib, diverging at an angle of about 75°, slender, 
distinct on both surfaces, slightly raised below, looped about 1 Jin. 
from the margin, the loops forming a distinct crenate intramarginal 
nerve; veins very fine, fairly distinct below; petiole 4-1 in. long, 
about 3 lin. thick, with a broad channel on the upper side, glabrous, 
straw-coloured when dry ; stipules deciduous, not seen. Receptacles 
fasciculate on the branchlets of a few seasons’ growth, 4—5 in a fascicle, 
pedunculate, globose or ellipsoid-globose, 3-1 in. in diam., shortly 
pubescent ; peduncle 3-1 in. long, 3-1 lin. thick, shortly but rather 
sparingly pubescent. Basal bracts small, connate at the base, soon 
falling off. Ostiole small and 2-lipped; bracts all descending into 
the receptacle, linear-lanceolate, subacute, glabrous. Male flowers 
shortly pedicellate, with a solitary stamen. Female flowers sub- 
sessile. Gall flowers long-pedicellate——Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. 
Jahrb. xlvi. 230. Urostigma elegans, Miq. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 
vi. 557, vii. 563, t. xiii. A and in Hook: Niger Fl. 521. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Cape Coast Castle, Vogel, 25! 87! Krobo 
Plains, Johnson, 559! Togo: east of Nyande, Doering, 228! Southern 
Nigeria: common in and around Lagos, Millen, 23! Cameroons: N orth-west 
Cameroon Company's Collector (in Herb. Berlin) ! 
43. F. Buntingii, Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 320. with fig- 
Anepiphyte; stem 3 ft. in circumference; young branchlets elongated; 
tapered to the apex, ribbed, glabrous. Leaves elongate-oblong, 
gradually and obtusely acuminate, rounded or obtuse at the base, 
4-6} in. long, 1-1} in. broad, entire, shining above, dull and glabrous 
below; midrib flat above, prominent below, gradually tapered t0 
the apex of the blade ; lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the 
midrib, diverging from it at an angle of about 75°, arcuate, looped 
near the margin, prominent below ; tertiary nerves reticulate ; vel® 
forming a close network below; petiole about 4 in. long, glabrous: 
sulcate above; stipules early caducous, very small, acute. 
ceptacles borne in fascicles on very short leafless lateral branchlets 
