182 CXXIIIc. MORACE (Hutchinson). [ Ficus. 
ovate, obtuse, silky-hairy outside. Ostiole 2-lipped; bracts all 
descending into the receptacle, the two next the mouth longer and 
more fleshy than the others, oblong-linear, obtuse, glabrous. Male 
flowers sessile ; perianth-segments 3, broadly elliptic, obtuse, reddish 
towards the base, membranous, glabrous. Stamen solitary ; anther 
oblong-ellipsoid, obtuse at both ends. Female flowers: perianth- 
segments 3, ovate-oblong, acutely acuminate, membranous, glabrous. 
Achene slightly obovoid, smooth; style slightly longer than the 
achene, slender, with a thickened stigma. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia: Casamanze River, Chevalier! Dahomey: 
without precise locality, Poisson! Togo: Basari, growing on an old Baobab, 
Kersting, A. 21! A. 221! 533! 
North Central. Shari district : Kaba Maro, Chevalier, 9091 ! 
The figs seem rather variable in size; in Kersting, 221, they are about 5 lin. in 
diam. and in Chevalier, 9091, one fig measures as much as 8 lin. In the latter 
specimen the leaves are more chartaceous than in the others, but otherwise 
it appears to agree with this species. 
127. F. Petersii, Warb. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 164. A tree up to 
60 ft. high; young branchlets crisped-pubescent, at length nearly 
glabrous, ribbed when dry. Leaves oblanceolate, elliptic-oblanceo- 
late or obovate-oblanceolate, narrowed to an obtuse base or rarely 
rounded to the base, very shortly and obtusely pointed, 13-3} im. 
long, ?-14 in. broad, thinly but rather rigidly chartaceous, glabrous 
on both surfaces; lateral nerves 6-8 on each side of the midrib, 
slightly arcuate, conspicuous on both surfaces but more prominent 
below, looped within the margin ; tertiary nerves and veins lax and 
nearly as prominent below as the lateral nerves ; petiole up to 2 i. 
long, slender, glabrous; stipules caducous. Receptacles axillary, 
mostly paired, quite sessile, ovoid, brown-tomentose when mature, 
about 44 lin. long and 34 lin. in diam., with a conspicuous pore-like 
ostiole. Basal bracts small and deciduous. Bracts of the ostiole 
descending vertically into the receptacle, glabrous. Male flowers 
with a membranous glabrous perianth and a solitary stamen.—Mildbr. 
& Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 258. F.ruficeps, Warb. in Engl. J ahrb. 
xxx. 294. F. Galpinii, Warb. in Viertelj. Naturforsch. Ges. Ziirich, li. 
140. F. Dinteri, Warb. l.c. 141. F. schinziana, Warb. l.c. 143. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: between Quihita and Gambos, Pearson, 2498! 
2534! between Gambos Mission Station and Cabama, Pearson, 2476! Mount 
_Kileba, Gossweiler, 1696! Kubango; between Colui and the River Loanga, 
Gossweiler, 2121! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Kimamba in Unyanyembe, Pritiwiiz 
& Gaffron, 269! Ssongea, Keudel, 1439! Usagara; Wumi River, Trotha, 
191! Usafu; near Utengule, Goetze, 1057! British Central Africa: Nyas@- 
land; Maravi, Peters! Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 456! 
Occurs also in the Transvaal and in German South West Africa. 
128. F. Adolfi-Friderici, Mildbr. in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 232. 
A rather tall tree; branches glabrous, longitudinally sulcate and 
