Ficus. ] CXXIIIc. MORACE (Hutchinson). 133 
long, deeply grooved on the upper surface, glabrous, about 1} lin. 
thick; stipules early caducous. Receptacles fasciculate on the 
older branches remote from the leaves, pedunculate, obovoid- 
globose, 1-14 in. in diam., wrinkling like a desiccated plum when 
dry, finely pubescent ; peduncle about ? in. long, thicker towards the 
apex, glabrous. Basal bracts very small. Ostiole minute, 2-lipped ; 
bracts few, all descending into the receptacle, glabrous. Male 
flowers pedicellate ; perianth oblong-linear, obtuse, membranous, 
glabrous. Stamen solitary; filament } lin. long; anther oblong, 
obtuse, 3 lin. long. Female flowers subsessile. Gall flowers long- 
pedicellate—Th. & Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 504; Mildbr. & 
Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 229. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo, Gillet, 2014! : 
ae Central. Belgian Congo: Eala, Laurent, 731! 764! Lie, Laurent, 
! : 
(51. F. lukanda, Welw. ex Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, 269. A tree 20-35 ft. 
high, but usually met with as a much-branched shrub of 5-6 ft., 
and then (according to Welwitsch) closely resembling in its foliage a 
young erect plant of ivy, glabrous, exuding a watery viscid sap ; 
branches patent, very crowded ; bark dusky-grey or ashy ;_ branch- 
lets spreading, ascending or somewhat erect, pale green or somewhat 
dusky towards the apex, shining and slightly angular when dry. 
eaves elliptic or oblong-elliptic, sometimes slightly oblique, sub- 
caudately or gradually obtusely acuminate, slightly rounded and 
obtuse at the base, 3-5 in. long, 14-2} in. broad, entire, chartaceous, 
glabrous, dull on both surfaces, distinctly 3-nerved about 1} lin. 
above the base, the basal pair of nerves extending to about the middle 
of the blade; midrib slightly impressed above, prominent below, 
Scarcely 4 lin. broad a little above the base ; lateral nerves (including 
the basal ones) 4-5 on each side, minutely impressed above, prominent 
elow, rather slender, arising from the midrib at an angle of 45°, 
slightly curved, looped, the loops forming a crenate line about 1} lin. 
Within the recurved margin; tertiary nerves subparallel to the 
teral ones, wavy, distinct below; veins close, rather faint below, 
hot visible above ; petiole 1-3 in. long, slender, about 4 lin. thick, 
very narrowly channelled on the upper surface, glabrous ;] stipules 
very early deciduous, lanceolate, subacute, about in. long, glabrous. 
€ceptacles very abundant, 1-3 together on the thicker branches 
and sometimes also on the trunk where it is about 1 ft. in diam., and 
Sometimes on the green branches, at first green, afterwards turning 
Yellow, ellipsoid-globose, about } in. in diam., glabrous ; peduncle up 
bag £ in. long, rather slender, glabrous. Basal bracts caducous, 
leaving an oblique persistent basal portion closely adpressed to 
the base of the fig. Ostiole small and inconspicuous. Bracts all 
*scending into the receptacle. Male flowers sessile with a solitary 
stamen. Female and gall flowers numerous.—F. ottoniefolia, Hiern 
