138 CXXIIIc. MORACE (Hutchinson). [ Ficus. 
glabrous. Male flowers with a solitary stamen—De Wild. in Bull. 
Soc. Bot. Belg. lu. 223. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Equateur district ; Eala, Pynaert, 1314! 
58. F. maculosa, Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 323. A small 
tree; branches terete, those bearing the clusters of figs $—? in. in diam., 
covered with a grey bark marked with large scattered lenticels ; 
young leafy branchlets fairly slender, glabrous. Leaves oblong or 
oblong-elliptic, obtusely acuminate, rounded at the base, 33-6} in. 
long, 2-24 in. broad, entire, thinly chartaceous, dull and glabrous 
on both surfaces ; midrib flat above, prominent below, about ? lin. 
broad at the base, gradually tapered to the apex of the leaf-blade ; 
lateral nerves 6-8 on each side of the midrib, diverging from it at an 
- angle of about 75°, prominent below, looped some distance from the 
margin, rather slender; tertiary nerves subparalled to the lateral 
ones ; veins prominent below, laxly reticulate ; petiole 1 in. long, 
slender, glabrous; stipules early caducous, linear-lanceolate, very 
acutely acuminate, ? in. long, subcoriaceous, glabrous. Receptacles 
fasciculate on the branches of several years’ growth, remote from the 
leaves, 3-5 in a fascicle, pedunculate, narrowly obovoid-ellipsoid, 
stipitate at the base, $-3 in. long, about 5 lin. in diam., glabrous, 
straw-coloured and spotted when dry, not wrinkled ; stipe 1-1} ln. 
long ; peduncles slender, ? in. long, twisting and angular, very 
minutely puberulous. Basal bracts small and caducous, their 
narrowly connate bases persistent and 1-sided. Ostiole slightly 
produced, minute, pore-like; bracts aJl descending into the 
receptacle, linear, acute, up to 2 lin. long, with membranous 
margins. Male flowers with a solitary stamen. Females subsessile, 
with large papillose stigmas.—F. polybractea, Mildbr. & Burret in 
Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 225, partly. 
“ See Guinea. Togo: Sokode; Barariruoba Tamberna village, Kersting, 
59. F. kimuenzensis, Warb. in Warb. & De Wild. Fic. Fl. Congo, 
23. Young branchlets glabrous. Leaves oblong or oblong-elliptic, 
obtusely acuminate, slightly cordate at the base, 2-3} in. long, 14-2 in. 
broad, entire, chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces ; midrib flat 
above, prominent and rounded below, gradually tapered to the apex 
of the blade; lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, 
diverging from it at a wide angle, nearly straight, looped near the 
margin ; tertiary nerves scarcely less conspicuous than the lateral 
ones and parallel to them; veins moderately close below, blackish 
when dry ; petiole }-1} in. long, black when dry, glabrous ; stipules 
caducous. Receptacles fasciculate on the old wood, pedunculate, 
oblong-ellipsoid, flattened at the top, about 2 in. long, straw-coloured 
and covered with scattered brown spots when dry, glabrous ; peduncle 
