Ficus.) CXXIIIc, MORACE2 (Hutchinson). 165 
Upper Guinea. Without precise locality, Thonning! Senegambia: shore 
between Mbidgem and Dakar, Chevalier! and without precise locality, Talmy / 
Sierra Leone: Sugarloaf Mountain, Scott Elliot, 5754! and without precise 
locality, Vohsen! French Guinea: Sareya, Chevalier, 454! Los Islands, 
Pobéguin, 1234! Kindia, Pobeguin, 1269! Konakry, Maclaud! Dybowski ! 
Liberia: Sinoe, Sim, 13! 17! Johnston! Ivory Coast: Cavally basin, 
Chevalier, 20067! Gold Coast: without precise locality, Burton & Cameron ! 
Togo: various localities, Warnecke, 337! Kersting, 97! A 337! A 394! 429! 
Mellin, 89! Doering, 97! Zech, 14! Northern Nigeria: Bassa Province ; Dekina, 
Lamb, 19! Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 2427! Neu-Tegel, Winkler, 206! 
221! Fernando Po: Musola, above San Carlos, Mildbraed, 6986 ! 
Nile Land. Niamniam: on the Linduku River, Schweinfurth, 3259! 
Mansilli River, Schweinfurth, 3882! British East Africa: 5 days’ march from 
Lubwas, Whyte! Uganda: Mkakawe, Scott Elliot, 7271! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Malange, Marques, 2! 7! Gossweiler, 1010! 
Loanda, Griindler ! Soba Bango, Buchner, 547! 672! : 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Monbuttu; Kussumbo River, Schwein- 
furth, 3673! Munza, Schweinfurth, 3439! various localities, Sapin! Laurent, 
1075! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 1605! Kifu- 
mbiro, near Bukoba, Mildbraed, 69! Buanjai Mission, Mildbraed, 50! Ugalla 
River, Bohm, 123a! Ujiji, Lake Tanganyika, T'rotha, 139! 
Var. octomelifolia, Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 244. Leaves below 
and petioles more or less pilose-pubescent.—F. octomelifolia, Warb. in Warb. 
& De Wild. Fic. Fl. Congo, 1. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: without precise locality, Cabra! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Central Urundi, Trotha, 74! 
According to Dr. Mildbraed, this species produces an inferior bark-cloth. 
101. F. mallotoides, Mildbr. & Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 
334. A large epiphyte ; branchlets rather stout, closely longitudinally 
Sulcate, finely pubescent. Leaves broadly ovate, cordate, slightly and 
very obtusely pointed at the apex, 54-64 in. long, 3}—5 in. broad, 
entire, chartaceous, dull and glabrous on both surfaces; midrib flat 
above, very prominent below, about 1 lin. broad at the base, gradually 
tapered to the apex of the blade; lateral nerves 10-12 on each side of 
the midrib, diverging from it at an angle of 50°-70°, the lowermost 
pair with from 4-5 secondary ones radiating from the base on their 
lower side, all distinct on both surfaces, rather slender but prominent 
below, branched and looped some distance from the margin ; ter- 
tiary nerves about half as prominent as the lateral and following 
their direction, but somewhat zig-zag; veins rather lax, distinct 
below , petiole 14-3 in. long, about 1 lin. thick, glabrous ; stipules 
subpersistent, lanceolate, acutely acuminate, } in. long, about 4 lin. 
broad, thinly papyraceous, finely puberulous outside, shortly tomen- 
tose within. Receptacles axillary, sessile, green with small reddish- 
town spots when fresh, depressed-globose, $-1 in. in diam. minutely 
Ssubadpressed-pubescent on the outside, yellowish-brown and wrinkled 
When dry. Basal bracts soon deciduous. Ostiole 2-lipped, not 
Prominent ; bracts not visible from the outside, all descending into 
the receptacle, the two nearest the mouth much larger than the 
others, rigid, thick, oblong, truncate at the apex, 3 lin. long, glabrous, 
