206. CXXItc. MORACEA (Hutchinson), | Ficus. 
undulate intramarginal nerve 1 lin. distant from the margin ; tertiary 
nerves often only slightly less conspicuous than the secondary and 
parallel with them ; veins delicate and often straw-coloured. below ; 
petiole short for the size of the blade, 4-14 (rarely 2) in. long, about 
1 lin. thick, glabrous. Receptacles axillary, mostly in pairs, pedun- 
culate, depressed-globose, 5-6 lin. in diam. when ripe, orange- 
coloured, glabrous ; peduncle 4-5 lin. long, about ? lin, thick, glabrous. 
Basal bracts: soon deciduous, connate at the base, membranous, 
glabrous. Ostiole pore-like, small, all the bracts descending vertically 
into the receptacle. Male flowers very few near the ostiole, witha 
solitary stamen. Female flowers sessile. Gall flowers pedicellate— 
Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlyi. 231, partly; De Wild. in 
Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 200. F, Laurentit, Warb. in Warb. & De 
Aen Fic. Fl. Congo, 21; Mildbr. & Burret, l.c. 231, partly ; De Wilds 
c. 214. oa adhe 
Upper Guinea. Liberia: Sinoe, Sim, 10! Grand Bassa, Dinklage, 1834! 
Dahomey: near Zagnanado, Poisson, 38! near Sagou, Poisson, 23! Southern 
Aigeie : Onitsa, Barter, 294! Eppah, Barter, 3311! Bonny, Kalbreyer, 
9! 
Lower Guinea. Spanish Guinea: Uelleburg, T’essmann, 440! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Lusambo, Laurent! between Niangara 
and Dungu, Seret, 696! Hala, Pynaert, 1494! Laurent, 765! 
Grown at Kew from plants collected at Old Calabar by Mr. J. H. Holland ; 
cultivated also in the Serres coloniales, Laeken, Brussels. 
162. F. cyathistipuloides, De Wild. in Fedde, Repert. xii. 194. 
Branchlets longitudinally sulcate, glabrous. Leaves oblanceolate, 
very obtusely and gradually acuminate, narrowed to. the base, 
3-5 in. long, 1-1} in. broad, entire, coriaceous, dull and glabrous 
on both surfaces; midrib prominent on the lower surface, about 
1 lin. broad at the base, gradually tapered to the apex of the leaf- 
blade ; lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, diverging 
from it at an angle of 45°, looped some distance from the margin, 
prominent below ; tertiary nerves lax and slender, much branched ; 
venation rather close and delicate, fairly evident below ; petiole 
3-# in. long, about 3 lin. thick, with a narrow V-shaped groove oD 
the upper surface, glabrous ; stipules deciduous, short. Receptacles 
axillary, solitary, pedunculate, globose, about 1} in. in diam., col- 
tracted into a cylindrical stipe about 2} in. long and 1} lin. thick, 
glabrous ; peduncle about 4 lin. long and 1} lin. thick, glabrous. 
Basal bracts 2, deciduous. Ostiole slightly protruded, 2-lipped ; 
orifice scarcely 1 lin. long. Bracts all descending into the receptacle. 
those nearest the orifice larger and more fleshy than the others, gla 
brous. Male flowers pedicellate ; perianth-segments linear-lanceolate, 
acute, 1} lin. long, membranous, glabrous. Stamen solitary ; fila- 
ment broadly winged ; anther-cells distinct, 1 lin. long, connective 
produced into a mucro above the anther, ‘Female flowers few, sessile. 
