164 CXXIIIc. MORACEZ (Hutchinson). [ Ficus. 
flowers subsessile; stamen solitary. Female flowers subsessile, 
scarcely sufficiently developed on the type for description. 
Nile Land. Uganda: Buddu, 4000 ft., Dawe, 286! 
Mr. Dawe states that this tree yields an inferior bark-cloth, and it is planted 
only when other varieties are unobtainable. 
100. F. ovata, Vahl, Enum. 1. 185. A large tree with a very 
broad crown ; young branchlets very stout, leafy, ribbed, purplish, 
minutely puberulous. Leaves oblong-elliptic or elongate-ovate, 
shortly and obtusely acuminate, rounded or cordate at the base, 
7-103 in. long, 24-5} in. broad, entire, chartaceous, glabrous and 
dull on both surfaces or finely puberulous below, finely reticulate 
below, often yellowish-brown when dry ; midrib slightly impressed 
on the upper surface, very prominent below, about 1 lin. broad at 
the base, gradually tapered to the apex ; lateral nerves 8-14 on each 
side of the midrib, diverging from it at an angle of 45° or slightly 
more, the lowermost pair opposite, the others either opposite or 
subalternate, slender, bifurcate }-3 in. from the margin, distinct on 
both surfaces, prominent below ; tertiary nerves wavy, less prominent 
than the lateral and more or less following their direction ; veins 
close and distinct on the lower surface ; petiole 14-2 in. long, longi- 
tudinally sulcate, glabrous; stipules caducous, lanceolate, long- 
acuminate, up to 2} in. long, glabrous. Receptacles in axillary pairs, 
sessile or very shortly pedunculate, subglobose or ellipsoid, 1-2 im. 
in diam., finely puberulous, enclosed while young by a reddish finely 
puberulous coriaceous calyptra. Basal bracts small, connate at the 
base. Ostiole small, pore-like; bracts all descending into the 
receptacle, glabrous. Male flowers pedicellate: perianth-segments 
ovate-acuminate, membranous, glabrous; anther solitary, obtuse. 
Female flowers sessile, with slender styles. Gall flowers long- 
pedicellate.—Pers. Syn. ii. 609; Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. 1. 
502; Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 178; Brunner in Flora, 1840, Beibl. 1. 
72; Mig. in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iii. 288; Mildbr. & Burret | 
in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 243. F. calyptrata, Vahl, 1.c., from descrip- 
tion. F. spectabilis, Kunth & Bouché, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 
1846, 15. F. africana, Hort. Berol. apud Kunth & Bouché, 
le. F. Vohsenti, Warb. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 155, partly. £ 
Buchneri, Warb. l.c. 157; De Wild. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. li. 
201. F. megaphylla, Warb. in Warb. & De Wild. Fic. Fl. Congo 1. 
incl. var. glabra, Warb. lc. 2. F. laurifolioides, Warb. ex A. 
Cheval. in Compt. Rend. Acad. Paris, exxxv. 443, name only. F. 
Johnstonii, Stapf in Johnston, Liberia, ii. 652, t. 265. F. Gruendlert, 
Warb. ex Mildbr. & Burret, |.c., name only. F. Sapini, De Wild. in 
Fedde, Repert. xii. 302; De Wild. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 227. 
Urostigma ovatum, Mig. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 553. . 
calyptratum, Miq. 1.c. 
