Ficus.] CXXIIIc. MORACEZ (Hutchinson), 141 
lateral nerves 10-11 on each side of the midrib ; veins distinct below ; 
petiole 1-13 in. long, about $ lin. thick, glabrous ; stipules caducous. 
Receptacles fasciculate on the older branches, up to 16 in a fascicle, 
pedunculate, ellipsoid, about } in. long, brown with black spots when 
dry ; peduncle 4-3 in. long, thickened towards the apex. Basal 
bracts small, connate at the base into an expanded disc-like body 
with an irregular margin. Ostiole 2-lipped, with the bracts all 
descending vertically into the interior of the receptacle. Male 
flowers with a single stamen.—De Wild. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 
li. 230. 
Aco Central. Belgian Congo: Umangi Island, in the River Congo, 
urent | 
Var. Laurentii, De Wild. in Fedde, l.c., and in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. l.c. Lateral 
nerves slightly more numerous than in the type; receptacles about I in. long. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Eala, Laurent, 1350! 
64. F. Scheffleri, Warb. ex Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. 
xlvi. 225. A tree 20-25 ft. high ; branchlets longitudinally sulcate 
when dry, purplish, very minutely puberulous. Leaves oblong- 
lanceolate, gradually and obtusely acuminate, cuneate at the base, 
3-5} in. long, 1-2 in. broad, entire, slightly warted on the upper 
surface, glabrous and very finely reticulate with a purplish venation 
below ; midrib impressed above, prominent below, about 4 lin. 
broad at the base, gradually tapered to the apex of the blade, purple 
when dry ; lateral nerves 10-13 on each side of the midrib, diverging 
from it at an angle of 45°-60°, distinct above, prominent but slender 
below, looped well within the margin, the loops forming an intra- 
marginal deeply crenate nerve about 1} lin. from the margin ; 
tertiary nerves not prominent ; petiole $-1} in. long, blackish- 
purple when dry, glabrous; stipules caducous, not seen. Recep- 
tacles produced in fascicles on the trunk or on the older branches 
Temote from the leaves, pedunculate, oblong-ellipsoid, nearly 2 in. 
long, a little over 4 in. broad, slightly verrucose and minutely 
Pubescent ; peduncle } in. long or slightly more, curved, almost 
glabrous. Basal bracts deciduous, connate at the base. Ostiole 
very small and inconspicuous, 2-lipped ;_ bracts all descending into 
the Teceptacle, numerous, acute, with narrowly membranous margins. 
ale flowers with 3-4 perianth-segments and a solitary stamen ; 
anther-connective thickened at the back. Female flowers not seen. 
Gall flowers pedunculate, numerous. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara mountains, north-west 
of Derema, Scheffler, 215! 
65. F. fasciculiflora, Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 324, with 
Jig. A tree 50-65 ft. high; crown broad; branches bearing eg 
ceptacles terete, covered with a grey bark ; young branchlets re 
glabrous, blackish when dry. Leaves obovate or obovate-oblanceolate, 
