134 CXXIIIc. MORACEZ (Hutchinson). [Ficus. 
in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 1003, not of Miq. FF. sterculioides, Warb. in 
Engl. Jahrb. xx. 175; Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 229. 
F. Dewevrei, Mildbr. & Burret, l.c. 225, partly not of Warb. F. 
longipedunculata, De Wild. in Fedde, Repert. xii. 195, and in 
Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 217. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 3652! between Sangmelima 
and Ebolowa, Mildbraed, 5560! between Ebolowa and Nkomakak, Mildbraed, 
5822! 
Nile Land. Uganda: without precise locality, Scott Elliot, 7515! South 
Buddu, Dawe, 296! Kipayo, Dimmer, 713! 
Lower Guinea. Spanish Guinea: Nkolentangan, Tessmann, 335! 
Velleburg, Tessmann, 66! 439! Angola: Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 6391! 
6392! 6393! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Bomaneh, Laurent, 1352! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 1019! Wau 
Island, in Lake Kivu, Mildbraed, 1157! 
52. F. ottoniefolia, Mig. in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iii. 288. A 
tree up to 30 ft. high (Chipp); stems twiggy (Vogel) ; branchlets 
smooth, covered with glabrous straw-coloured bark. Leaves oblong 
or oblong-elliptic, shortly and obtusely or caudately long-acuminate, 
when long-acuminate then the acumen somewhat oblique (in the 
dried leaves), rounded or very slightly cuneate at the base, 24-6 in. 
long, 1-2} in. broad, thinly chartaceous or almost membranous, 
glabrous on both surfaces, mostly much darker coloured above, very 
finely reticulate below ; midrib slightly impressed above, prominent 
but rather slender below, scarcely # lin. broad at the base, gradually 
tapered to and almost fading away at the apex; lateral nerves 
7-10 on each side, spreading from the midrib at an angle of about 
65° or almost at right angles, slender, looped, the loops forming 4 
rather deeply crenate line about 1 lin. from the margin ; veins very 
slender and rather close, not visible above, distinct (but only very 
slightly raised) below; petiole 3-13 in. long, glabrous, about ? lm. 
thick; stipules very caducous, present only at the apex of the 
newly opened shoots, linear-lanceolate, very acutely acuminate, 
about $ in. long, glabrous. Receptacles in axillary pairs, or perhaps 
sometimes also fasciculate on the older branches, pedunculate, sub- 
globose when ripe, stipitate at the base when young, at length 
rounded, } in. or slightly more in diam., very finely rusty-puberulous 
when young, at length glabrous. Basal bracts soon falling of, 
connate at the base into a persistent circular plate closely applied 
to the receptacle. Ostiole small and 2-lipped ; bracts all descending 
into the receptacle, subacute, glabrous. Male flowers shortly 
pedicellate ; perianth-segments lanceolate, membranous, glabrous. 
Stamen solitary. Female flowers subsessile. Gall flowers shortly 
pedicellate, numerous.—Urostigma ottoniefolium, Miq. in Hook. 
Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 557. F. Buttneri, Warb. in Engl. Jahrb. x*- 
157; Mildbr. & Burret, l.c. xlvi. 224, incl. var. glolncarpa, Warb. 
F. Gillet, Warb. in Warb. & De Wild. Fic. Fl. Congo, 19, t- } 
