Ficus.] CXXIlIc. MORACEZ (Hutchinson). 155 
broad at the base, gradually tapered to the apex; lateral nerves 
about 5 on each side of the midrib, diverging at an angle of 45°, 
becoming rather slender and looped towards the margin; tertiary 
nerves few and very slender, more or less zig-zag between the lateral 
ones ; veins enclosing slightly raised dark brown areas on the lower 
surface ; petiole 3-3 in. long, glabrous ; stipules as above. Recep- 
tacles axillary, pedunculate, ellipsoid-obovoid, stipitate, nearly 14 in. 
long and 1 in. in diam., glabrous; peduncle 3-4 lin. long, sulcate, 
glabrous, nearly 1 lin. thick ; stipe about 2 lin. long, stout. Basal 
bracts 2, connate at the base, ovate-orbicular, about 2 lin. long, 
submembranous, glabrous. Ostiole not prominent; 2-lipped ; 
mouth 4 lin. wide, with no visible bracts from the outside ; bracts 
very few, descending, linear, up to 3 lin. long, slightly fleshy, glabrous. 
Receptacular wall about 24 lin. thick. Male flowers not seen, but 
almost certainly with only 1 stamen. Female flowers stoutly 
pedicellate ; perianth-segments 4, oblong-ovate, obtuse, with 
membranous hyaline margins. Achene smooth ; style rather thick, 
shortly 2-lobed. Receptacular scales subulate-lanceolate, acute, 
1} lin. long, with thin membranous margins.—F. cyathistipula, 
Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 234, partly, not of Warb. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Buea, Reder, 395! Ebenda, Reder, 1503! 
This species has leaves very similar to F. camptoneura, Mildbr., and recep- 
tacles like those of F. cyathistipula, Warb. 
68. FB. mutantifolia, Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 330, with 
fig. Branchlets quadrangular, shortly brownish-tomentose, at length 
nearly glabrous. Leaves when young very different from the adult 
Stage ; young leaves narrowly oblanceolate, rounded at the apex, 
slightly narrowed to an obtuse base, 1-1} in. long, }-} in. broad, entire, 
chartaceous, becoming almost black on the upper surface when dry, 
rather finely reticulate and brown below, with about 9 pairs of lateral 
nerves; mature leaves rigidly coriaceous, oblong-oblanceolate, 
slightly truncate or rounded at the apex, obtuse at the base, 14-24 
in. long, 3-1 in. broad, entire, light green on both surfaces when dry, 
shining above ; midrib flat or very slightly immersed above, slightly 
raised below, } lin. broad at the base, gradually narrowed to the apex, 
bifureate about 1 in. from the apex ; lateral nerves 9-11 on each 
side, very slightly immersed above, slightly prominent below, 
diverging from the midrib at an angle of 45°, looped, the loops 
forming a crenate intramarginal nerve about # lin. from the margin ; 
tertiary nerves and veins very few, scarcely evident ; petiole 3-4 
n. long, of the young leaves rather slender, glabrous, of the mature 
leaves about ? lin. thick ; stipules persistent or subpersistent, ovate, 
acutely acuminate, about 2 lin. long and 1} lin. broad, membranous, 
pubescent when young, soon becoming glabrous or nearly so. Re- 
ceptacles crowded towards the apex of each shoot, sessile, ovoid- 
globose, about 2} lin. in diam., minutely and softly puberulous; 
