Ficus.] CXXUIc. MORACEZ (Hutchinson). 171 
Ostiole 2-lipped, glabrous, scarcely produced, about 2 lin. wide. 
Bracts all descending into the receptacle, the middle two broader 
and more fleshy than the others, oblong, 1} lin. long, glabrous, the 
others lanceolate, acute, 1 lin. long or less. Male flowers shortly 
pedicellate ; perianth enclosing the solitary anther; anther-cells 
slightly superimposed. Female flowers sessile ; perianth-segments 3, 
ovate-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, glabrous. Achene ovoid- 
globose, smooth ; style nearly as long as the achene, with a rather 
broad flattened stigma. Gall flowers long-pedicellate, with a short 
style. Receptacular scales lanceolate, acute, membranous.—Mildbr. 
& Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 220, partly. F. howardiana, Sim, 
For. Fl. Port. E. Afr. 100, t. xcii. A. F. Homblet, De Wild. in 
Fedde, Repert. xii. 195, and in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 212. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Mombasa, Boivin! Sacleux, 2573 ! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Ussukuma Nyangesi, Stuhlmann, 
4141! Tabora, Trotha, 79! Portuguese East Africa: Shupanga, Kirk! Mu- 
balusi, Sim, 6262 ! Lorenzo Marques, Sim, 6368 ! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Elizabethville, Homblé, 341! 
111. F. Dar-es-salaamii, Warb. ex Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. 
Jahrb. xlvi. 221, in syn. A large much-branched shrub with several 
stems; young branchlets densely and softly villous with whitish hairs, 
becoming deeply sulcate and pubescent when older. Leaves oblong or 
slightly oblong-oblanceolate, wider above the middle, shortly and 
obtusely acuminate, rounded at the base, 4~7 in. long, 2-23 in. broad, 
entire, finely puberulous and verrucose especially near the midrib 
above, shortly pubescent on the veins and nerves below ; midrib flat 
above, prominent below, about 1 lin. broad at the base, gradually 
tapered to the apex; lateral nerves subopposite, about 9 on each side 
of the midrib, slightly arcuate and diverging at an angle of about 
45°, Tunning parallel for some distance with the margin, looped, 
Prominent on the lower surface ; tertiary nerves and veins scarcely 
Separable, forming a prominent rather lax venation below, not 
visible above ; petiole 14-23 in. long, slightly compressed, about 1 lin. 
broad, thinly pilose; stipules deciduous, not seen. Receptacles 
axillary, sessile, globose, about 4 in. in diam., thinly pubescent, with 
an inconspicuous 2-lipped ostiole. Basal bracts and receptacles 
More or less as in F. Stuhlmannii, Warb., but with the receptacles 
much less hairy. —F. nigropinctata, Warb. ex Mildbr. & Burret, Le. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Dar-es-Salaam, near the Bismarck 
Monument, Holtz, 923! Stuhlmann ! 
Closely allied to F. Stuhlmannii, Warb., but distinguished by the differently 
Shaped leaves, the nature of their indumentum, gina the less hairy receptacles. 
112. F. glumosa, Del. Cent. Pl. Méroé, 63. A large tree ; branch- 
lets twiggy, pubescent or pilose. Leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, 
cordate at the base, rounded and very obtusely and shortly acuminate, 
