154 CXXIIIc, MORACEZ (Hutchinson) [ Ficus. 
tree 12-20 ft. high, very much branched, evergreen; trunk and 
branches with sparing or copious milky sap; branchlets spreading, 
angular, glabrous, according to Welwitsch pendulous after the 
habit of Salix babylonica, Linn., densely clothed with the persistent 
stipules. Leaves alternate, oblanceolate or elliptic-oblanceolate, 
shortly and obtusely acuminate, mostly rather long-attenuated to 
the base, 23-54 in. long, 14-2 in. broad, entire, rigidly coriaceous, 
dull on both surfaces, distinctly reticulate below but not so above, 
glabrous ; midrib slightly immersed above, very prominent below, 
nearly 14 lin. broad at the base, smooth; lateral nerves 5-7 on 
each side, scarcely visible above, prominent below, looped, the loops 
forming an irregular line 1-2 lin. from the margin; veins forming a 
distinct network below giving the surface a spotted appearance 
in the dried state; petiole $-3 in. long, glabrous, the epidermis 
at length splitting transversely and falling away in pieces ; stipules 
persistent, imbricate, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or sub- 
acute, $-? in. long, up to 4 lin. broad, reddish, submembranous. 
Receptacles axillary, solitary or in pairs, pedunculate, very shortly 
stipitate within the basal bracts, ellipsoid, umbonate, nearly 14 in. 
long and a little more than } in. in diam., very thinly puberulous 
outside; peduncle ? in. long, sulcate, puberulous; stipe nearly 
2 lin. long. Basal bracts 2, ovate, rounded at the apex, membranous, 
glabrous. Ostiole small and pore-like; bracts all descending into 
the interior of the receptacle, glabrous. Male flowers with a soli- 
tary stamen. Gall flowers very numerous, stalked —Warb. in Engl. 
Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 161, t. x, A-E and in Warb. & De Wild.: Fic. 
Fi. Congo, 13, t. xxvii.; Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 234, 
partly ; De Wild. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 203. F. callescens, 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 1001. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Duala, Biisgen, 565! Niasoso, Bisgen, 288! 
Nile Land. Uganda: Sesse Islands, Lake Victoria, Carpenter, 13 ! Entebbe, 
Bagshawe, 691! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Kimuenza, south of Leopoldville, Mildbraed, 
3561! Kisantu, Gillet, 1245! Angola: Golungo Alto; between the Cuango 
and Quiapoze streams, Welwitsch, 6395! Quiquele-quele spring near Sange, 
Welwitsch, 6385! 6420! Amboini, near the fort of Quissaco, Gossweiler, 4481 ! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Epulu, between Irumu and Mawambi, 
Mildbraed, 2979! Bambata, Allard, 189! Eala, Laurent, 708! Gumbari, Seret 
467! Atenes, Sapin ! Lutshima, Sapin ! and without precise locality, Dewevre, 
403 ! Demeuse, 463 ! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 3237! 3645! 
3779! Lake Kivu, Mildbraed, 1155! Uluguru, Stuhlmann, 8715! Amani, 
Braun, 995! 
84. F. Rederi, Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 329. Branchlets 
and stipules more or less as in F. camptoneura. Leaves obovate of 
obovate-elliptic, subobtusely acuminate, more or less cuneate at 
the base, 33-5 in. long, 13-24 broad, entire, chartaceous, dull and 
glabrous on both surfaces, with a close pale yellow venation on the 
lower surface ; midrib flat above, prominent below, about 1 lin. 
