198 CXXIIIc. MORACE# (Hutchinson). [ Ficus. 
8-9 on each side, bifurcate some distance from the margin, looped, 
diverging from the midrib at an angle of about 75°, flat but distinct 
above, prominent below; tertiary nerves parallel. fairly close, 
spreading from the lateral nerves at right angles, rather slender ; 
veins very fine and close, visible only on the lower surface ; midrib 
flat above, very prominent below, about 2 lin. broad at the base, 
gradually narrowed to and bifurcate near the apex of the leaf; 
petiole 3-5 in. long, 13-3 lin. thick, shortly and softly pubescent ; 
stipules deciduous, coriaceous, triangular, 4 lin. long, about 3 lin. 
broad, softly tomentose outside. Receptacles axillary, 2-3 together, 
pedunculate, subglobose, about 5 lin. in diam., densely pilose or 
glabrous and then often warted; peduncle 3-? in. long, densely 
pubescent ; basal bracts 2, connate at the base, ovate, about 1} lin. 
long, membranous towards the margin, puberulous. Ostiolar 
bracts all descending, linear, obtuse, 14-1? lin. long, } lin. broad, 
membranous, glabrous. Male flowers few, near the ostiole, with 
a very short thick stalk; perianth membranous, enclosing the 
solitary sessile stamen. Gall flowers numerous, pedicellate. Female 
flowers shortly stalked; perianth-segments ovate-lanceolate, sub- 
acute, } lin. long, membranous, glabrous; ovary obovoid, ? ln. 
long, glabrous ; style lateral, inserted between the middle and the 
top of the ovary ; stigma rather thick, oblong—Mildbr. & Burret 
in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 212. F. kotschyana, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Bot. 
Lugd.-Bat. iii. 288; T. Thoms. in Speke, Nile Journ. Append. 
647; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 149. F. lateralis, Warb. in 
Warb. & De Wild. Fic. Fl. Congo, 5. F. wmbrosa, Warb. ex Mildbr. 
& Burret, l.c., name only. Urostigma kotschyanum, Miq. in Hook. 
Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 553, and Afr. Vijge-Boom. 27, t. iv. B. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia : forests of Bafing River, Lécard, 191! between 
Mopti and Djenne, Chevalier! Gambia: banks of the Gambia River near 
Sukuta Village, Denton! Gold Coast: Shai Plains ; Agomeda, Johnson, 522! 
Togo: Kete Kratschi, Zech, 340! 342! Sokode, Kersting, 25! Basari, 
Kersting, 417! Kirikiri, Kersting, 54! Northern Nigeria: Katagum district, 
Dalziel, 214! Bornu, Vogel, 73! Yoruba, Dudgeon, 65! and without 
precise locality, Yates, 8! Cameroons: Adamaua; Garua, Ledermann, 3282 ! 
Dodo, Ledermann, 2914! 
Nile Land. Nubia: Meroe, Cailliaud. Sudan: Kordofan; Jebel Ghulfan, 
Broun, 1317! Bahr el Ghazal, Chaltin! Sennar: Fazokl, Kotschy, 527! 
Mount Tira, Kotschy, 407! Dinka: near Tekk, Schweinfurth, 1309! Sobat 
River, near Amot, Muriel, 102! Jur: Ghattas’ Seriba, Schweinfurth, 1288! 
1328! 2124! 138! Mittu: Kaffulukku, on the Gulu River, Schweinfuth, 
2811! Uganda: Madi, Speke & Grant, 636! expedition to the source of 
the White Nile, without further locality, D’Arnauld ! Sabatier ! 
Rubber is obtained from this species on the West Coast. 
49. F. zambesiaca, Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 341. A tree 
70-80 ft. high, 24 ft. in girth at 5 ft. from the ground (Scott) ; branch- 
lets stout, with rather short internodes, velvety-tomentose when 
young. Leaves oblong or oblong-elliptic, shortly cordate at the 
base, obtuse at the apex, 3-8 in. long, 14-34 in. broad, entire, rigidly 
