Ficus.] CXXIIIc. MORACEZ (Hutchinson). 161 
the midrib, diverging from it at an angle of about 45°, slightly 
arcuate, distinct above, very prominent below, looped close to 
the margin; tertiary nerves wavy and reticulate; venation close 
and forming a neat distinct network on both surfaces; petiole 
1-23 in. long, about 2 lin. thick, at first densely shaggy-villous with 
hairs, yellowish when dry, which eventually fall off and leave the 
petiole merely furfuraceous; stipules ovate-lanceolate, acutely 
acuminate, 1-14 in. long, shortly and rather densely pubescent, 
deciduous. Receptacles axillary, sessile, globose or obovoid-globose, 
up to 13 in. in diam., densely villous with yellow hairs. Basal bracts 
suborbicular, membranous, large, villous outside, glabrous towards 
the margin. Ostiole small and inconspicuous, pore-like; bracts all 
descending into the receptacle, glabrous. Male flowers rather 
numerous, pedicellate ; perianth-segments linear-lanceolate, acute. 
Stamen solitary ; anther oblong, } lin. long. Female flowers sessile ; 
style rather short with a thick stigma. Gall flowers very numerous, 
pedicellate.—Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iii. 288; Mildbr. & 
Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 241 ; De Wild. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 
li. 209. F. Afzelii, Hort. Berol. ex Kunth & Bouché, Ind. Sem. 
Hort. Berol. 1846, 14, name only. F. lanigera, Warb. in Engl. 
Jahrb. xx. 162. Urostigma eriobotryoides, Mig. Afr. Vijge-Boom. 39. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: near Duunia, Scott Elliot, 5017! near 
Sulimania, Scott Elliot, 5330a ! and without precise locality, Vogel, 139! French 
Guinea: Kindia, Chevalier, 12774! Ivory Coast: Alépé, Chevalier, 17891! 
Gold Coast : Kumassi, Cummins, 120! Krobo Plains, Johnson, 581! Aburi, 
Johnson, 930! Southern Nigeria : Asaba district ; Ogodo, Unwin! Cameroons : 
Dipika, Ledermann, 453 ! Mungo, Bucholz, 80! Neu-Tegel, Winkler, 213! 222! 
Paes: eg be forests, Thollon, 1125! 
er : : f ! 
Mocamb, Distr. Gorman Best Afiea: Wen leland, in Lake Kiva, Mié- 
braed, 1170! Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 1449 ! 
Var. Caillei, A. Chev. ex Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 242. Differs 
om the type in the leaves being permanently and rather densely pubescent 
with gold-coloured hairs on the lower surface.—F. monbuttensis, Warb. in Warb. 
& De Wild. Fic. Fl. Congo, 11, t. xxv. 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea: Bed of the River Ditiun, Chevalier, 12989! 
Haig Nigeria : Owerri district, Sherriff! Northern Nigeria: Ankpa, 
South dectegl Belgian Congo: Monbuttu; Munza, Schweinfurth, 157! 
3335! Gumbari, Seret, 464 ! 
ee latifolia, Hutchinson. Leaves broad and rounded or subcordate at 
€ base, 
Lower Guinea. Island of Annobon, Mildbraed, 6517! 6523! 
96. F. Dawei, Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 332, with fig. A 
tree up to 50 ft. high, with a spreading habit ; young branchlets leafy 
at the apex, very stout, villous. Leaves large, elongate-elliptic or 
hatrowly oblong-elliptic, shortly and obtusely acuminate (acumen 
+4 in. long), rounded and emarginate at the base, 9-12 in. long, 236 
in. broad, entire, chartaceous or thinly coriaceous, glabrous, finely 
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