Ficus.] CXXIIIc. MORACEZ (Hutchinson), 145 
membranous, reddish-purple when dry, longitudinally striate, glabrous. 
Receptacles axillary, solitary, pedunculate, shortly stipitate, sub- 
globose, about ? in. in diam., with a very long and somewhat woody 
beak about } in. long, beset with conspicuous warts about $ lin. long, 
strigillose-pubescent ; peduncle } in. long, fairly stout, glabrescent. 
Basal bracts 2, connate at the base, ovate or ovate-orbicular, about 
2} lin. broad, membranous, glabrous or nearly so. Ostiole 2-lipped, 
very small; bracts few, all descending into the receptacle, linear- 
lanceolate, acute. Male flowers pedicellate ; pedicel stout, 1 lin, 
long, glabrous ; perianth-segments 3, lanceolate, acute, membranous, 
about 1 lin. long, glabrous ; anther solitary, with a short filament, 
2 lin. long, each cell shortly mucronate at the apex. Gall flowers 
becoming large. Female flowers pedicellate; perianth-lobes 3, 
oblong ; style slender. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara ; Nquelo, Frau Kummer, 
25! Derema, Scheffler, 198! 216! Amani, Zimmermann, 963! 2633! Engler, 
3383! Sakare, Engler, 940! 
A species with remarkable receptacles, which have a very long woody beak 
and are covered with prominent warts. 
70. F. praticola, Mildbraed & Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 325, 
with fig. An epiphytic shrub; branchlets rather sharply angular, about 
1} lin. in diam., glabrous, covered with a grey smooth bark. Leaves 
oblong-elliptic, long-acuminate (acumen narrowed to a subobtuse 
apex, 1-1} in. long), obtuse or slightly rounded at the base, 6-74 
in. long, 13-21 in. broad, entire, coriaceous, dull on both surfaces, 
with a reddish midrib below (Mildbraed), light green above when dry, 
pale yellow below; midrib prominent below, sharply keeled in the 
lower part, about $ lin. broad at the base, gradually tapered to the 
apex of the blade ; lateral nerves about 11 on each side of the midrib, 
Spreading from it almost at right angles, prominent below, looped 
about 13-2 lin. from the margin; tertiary nerves slightly less prominent 
than the lateral and following their direction, slightly flexuous ; 
velns scarcely visible above, thick and prominent below; petiole 
3-1 in. long, rather slender, with a single deep groove on the upper 
Surface, spotted with small black lenticels, glabrous; stipules 
persistent, intrapetiolar, encircling the branchlets, narrowly lanceo- 
te, acutely long-acuminate, 3-1 in. long, membranous, reddish- 
purple when dry, glabrous. Receptacles axillary, quite sessile, 
hot stipitate, slightly depressed-globose, with a protruding glabres- 
Cent ostiole, 4 to nearly 3 in. in diam., beset with large very prominent 
tongue-like glabrous warts, strigillose-pubescent. Basal bracts 2, 
“onnate at the base, closely adpressed to the receptacle, suborbicular, 
lin. broad, membranous, glabrous. Ostiole 2-lipped; orifice 
about # lin. wide ; bracts not visible from the outside, all descending 
into the receptacle, linear, membranous, glabrous. _Receptacular 
wall about 1 lin. thick, fleshy. Male flowers subsessile ; perianth- 
Segments 3, ovate-lanceolate, membranous, glabrous, about j lin. 
FL. TROP. AFR. VI. SECT. Il. PART I. L 
