Ficus. | CXXIIIc. MORACE (Hutchinson). 153 
2 in. in diam., with very thick walls. Basal bracts 2, connate at the 
base, semi-orbicular, about 24 lin. broad, membranous, glabrous. 
Ostiole not at all prominent, not seen in a complete state, but 
very probably 2-lipped ; bracts lanceolate. Male flowers : perianth- 
segments 4, linear-lanceolate, acute. Stamen solitary; filament 
very short. Female perianth 4-partite, as in the male but longer ; 
style elongated, filiform, with a subclavate stigma.—Warb. in Warb. 
& De Wild. Fic. Fl. Congo, 10, t. xviii.; Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. 
Jahrb. xlvi. 237; De Wild. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 223. F. 
Staudtii, Warb. ex Mildbr. & Burret, l.c., name only. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Barombi, Preuss, 454 ! : 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Lukolela, Dewévre, 843! Kwilu, Sapin! 
Lufuku, Sapin! Eala, Laurent, 706! 717! Pynaert, 872 ! 
82. F. pringsheimiana, J. Braun & K. Schum. in Mitteil. Deutsch. 
Schutzgeb. ii. 162. Branchlets rather sharply angular, somewhat 
slender, glabrous. Leaves elliptic or obovate-elliptic, obtusely 
caudate-acuminate, acumen 3-1 in. long, cuneate at the base, 
33-63 in. long, 14-3 in. broad, entire, rigidly coriaceous, dull and 
glabrous on both surfaces, yellowish-brown below when dry ; midrib 
prominent and often slightly keeled below when dry, about 1 lin. 
broad at the base, gradually tapered to the apex ; lateral nerves 
8-10 on each side of the midrib, diverging from it at a wide angle 
(about 75°), prominently looped, the loops forming a crenate intra- 
marginal nerve about 14 lin. distant from the margin, prominent 
on the lower surface ; tertiary nerves fairly prominent and flexuous 
on the lower surface, like the lateral nerves light-coloured ; petiole 
comparatively short, 4-1 in. long, deeply grooved on the upper surface, 
glabrous ; stipules persistent, lanceolate, subacute, about 3 in. long, 
More or less membranous, reddish-purple when dry, with narrow 
hyaline margins. Receptacles axillary, solitary (?), sessile below the 
basal bracts, obovoid-globose, stipitate at the base, with a very 
small wart-like ostiolar protuberance at the apex, glabrous ; stipe 
stout, about 2 lin. long. Basal bracts 2, connate at the base, ovate, 
obtuse, about 1} lin. broad, thinly chartaceous, glabrous. Ostiole 
2-lipped, minute, slightly protruding, with no bracts visible from the 
outside ; orifice } lin. long; channel very narrow, 3 lin. long ; bracts all 
descending, rather few, subulate, 1 lin. long, glabrous. Receptacular 
wall about 2 lin. thick, soft. Male flowers with a single stamen. 
Female flowers pedicellate ; perianth-segments 3 or 4, linear, reddish, 
with hyaline margins, about 3 lin. long, glabrous ; achene oblong- 
ellipsoid, pitted, shining ; style slender, nearly as long as the achene. 
—Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 234. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: without precise locality, Braun, 142! 
Differs from F. cyathistipula, Warb., in its more shortly cuneate leaves and 
Sessile receptacles with very small ostioles. 
83. F. cyathistipula, Warb. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 173. A small 
