Ficus.] CXXIIIc. MORACE (Hutchinson). 139 
slender, # in. long, finely puberulous. Basal bracts small, deciduous, 
their bases connate into a flat one-sided plate-like body closely 
adpressed to the receptacle. Ostiole very small, slightly sunken, 
2-lipped ; bracts all descending into the receptacle. Male flowers 
with a solitary stamen. Female flowers sessile. Gall flowers 
stalked—Th. & Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 506; Mildbr. & 
Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 229. 
td Guinea. Lower Congo: Stanley Pool district ; Kimuenza, Gillet, 
! 
60. F. polybractea, Warb. in De Wild. & Durand, Relig. Dewevr. 
216. Branchlets stout, leafy, those bearing the leaves and receptacles 
terete, 4-5 lin. in diam., glabrous, covered with light brown bark 
and prominently marked with scattered lenticels. Leaves oblong, 
gradually and very obtusely acuminate, acumen }3 in. long, 
rounded at the base, 5-74 in. long, 2-3} in. broad, entire, rigidly 
chartaceous when dry, dull on both surfaces, closely and minutely 
verruculose on the upper surface, very minutely puberulous on the 
midrib and lateral nerves below, otherwise glabrous, 5—-7-nerved at 
the base, remaining lateral nerves 9-11 on each side, subopposite, 
diverging from the midrib at an angle of about 80°, looped, the 
loops forming a deeply crenate line 14 lin. within the margin, 
slightly immersed above, prominent below; tertiary nerves wavy, 
distinct below; veins rather close, but not prominent below ; 
petiole 1-2 in. long, about 2 lin. thick, very minutely puberulous ; 
Stipules (or are they bracts ?) ovate-lanceolate, subacute, about 
4 lin, long, membranous, brown when dry, very minutely puberulous 
or nearly glabrous. Receptacles fasciculate, supra-axillary, peduncu- 
late, ellipsoid, 4 in. long (mature ?), } in. in diam., reddish-puberu- 
lous ; peduncles about 3 in. long, minutely reddish puberulous ; 
basal bracts small, caducous.—Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. 
xlvi. 225, partly. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Equateur district, Dewevre, 1168a! Eastern 
Province ; near Stanley Falls, Dewévre. 
61. F. ulugurensis, Warb. ex Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. 
xlvi. 226, «. 4. A tree; two- or three-year-old branches terete, 
Tings the receptacles, very prominently warted with large fay 
protuberances ; young branchlets purplish when dry, art chews 
faves elliptic, obtusely caudate-acuminate, rounded il slig a 
narrowed at the base, 4-6 in. long, 24-3} in. long, entire, glal ae na 
on both surfaces ; midrib prominent below, about 1 lin. ia ' 
stad ually tapered to the apex; lateral nerves 9-11 on each side Z 
” haidrib, diverging from it at an angle of about 65°, the snes tee 
pair Opposite, looped near the margin, nearly equally eyentra . 
th surfaces ; tertiary nerves following the direction of the lateral 
ones and dividing the space between them, somewhat Zig-2ag ; 
