184 CXXIIIc. MORACEZ (Hutchinson). [Ficus. 
Stamen solitary ; filament short; anther nearly $ lin. long, obtuse. 
Female flowers with a short stout pedicel; perianth-segments 3, 
lanceolate, acute, ? lin. long, membranous; achene obliquely 
obovoid, smooth ; style inserted laterally, about one and a quarter 
times the length of the achene, with a unilateral stigma. Recepta- 
cular scales subulate-lanceolate, acute, 3-1 lin. long, membranous. 
Gall flowers with pedicels 3 lin. long, otherwise similar to the female. 
—De Wild. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. li. 229. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Eala, Laurent, 1357! 
130. F. annobonensis, Mildbr. & Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 
337. A shrub; branches terete, nearly glabrous; young branchlets 
finely puberulous. Leaves ovate-elliptic or oblong-elliptic, shortly 
and very obtusely acuminate, rounded or subcordate at the base, 
24-4 in. long, 14-1? in. broad, entire, chartaceous, finely verrucose 
on the upper surface, glabrous below ; midrib slightly raised above, 
prominent below, gradually tapered to the apex of the blade; lateral 
nerves 6-7 on each side of the midrib, diverging from it at an angle 
of 45°, arcuate, looped some distance from the margin, slightly 
prominent on both surfaces; veins fairly close and prominent below ; 
petiole 3-3 in. long, rather slender, glabrous; stipules caducous, linear- 
lanceolate, acutely acuminate, 5 lin. long, glabrous, minutely ciliate. 
Receptacles in axillary pairs, sessile, globose, 4 lin. in diam., glabrous. 
Basal bracts 2, connate at the base, ovate, obtuse, soon splitting into 
two unequal parts, 2 lin. long, coriaceous, minutely puberulous out- 
side. Ostiole slightly protruded, 2-lipped ; bracts not visible from the 
outside, all descending into the receptacle, the two nearest the orifice 
oblong, obtuse, longer and thicker than the others. Male flowers 
subsessile; perianth-segments 3-4, oblong-elliptic, membranous, 
glabrous; stamen solitary. Female flowers subsessile; perianth- 
segments asin the male. Achene ellipsoid, glabrous ; style about as 
long as the achene, slender, with a rather wide flattened stigma. 
Lower Guinea. Annobon Island; on dry hills in the north of the island, 
above the Palé village, Mildbraed, 6639 ! 
131. F. Lujw, De Wild. in Fedde, Repert. xii. 196. Branchlets 
glabrous, sulcate when dry, with more or less deciduous bark. ‘Leaves 
oblong-elliptic or oblanceolate-elliptic, gradually acuminate, sub- 
acute, subcordate and slightly unequal-sided at the base, 7-11 i. 
long and 54 in. broad, entire, coriaceous, dull and glabrous on both 
surfaces ; midrib flat above, very prominent below, about 2 lin. 
broad at the base, rounded in section, gradually tapered to the 
apex of the blade; lateral nerves about 11 on each side of the 
midrib, the lower subopposite, diverging from the midrib at an angle 
of 50-65°, thick and fairly prominent below, forming loops about 
2 lin. distant from the margin ; tertiary nerves lax, much branched 
and slender ; veins forming a delicate close network below ; petiole 
