208 CXXIIIc. MORACEZ (Hutchinson). [ Ficus. 
slightly protruded, 2-lipped ; bracts all descending into the recep- 
tacle, glabrous. Male flowers pedicellate; perianth-segments 3; stamen 
solitary. Female flowers with a slender style. Gall flowers pedicel- 
late —F. Chevalieri, Warb. ex Mildbr. & Burret, l.c. 235, name only. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Sasseni, Scott Elliot, 4522! French Guinea : 
Casamanze River, Chevalier ! 
165. F. natalensis, Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 88. A shrub or small 
tree; branchlets covered with greyish bark, glabrous. Leaves 
oblanceolate or obovate-oblanceolate, obtusely pointed or rounded 
at the apex, narrowed to the base, 13-3} in. long, 4-1} in. broad, 
entire, chartaceous, glabrous and dull on both surfaces ; midrib 
flat above, prominent below, gradually tapered to the apex of the 
blade ; lateral nerves 8-9 on each side of the midrib, diverging from 
it at an angle of 45° or less, looped near the margin, prominent but 
rather slender below ; tertiary nerves only slightly less prominent 
than the lateral and parallel with them; petiole comparatively 
short, 4-1 in. long, glabrous; stipules caducous, linear-lanceolate, 
acuminate, about 2 lin. long, coriaceous, glabrous. Receptacles 
axillary, mostly in pairs, pedunculate, obovoid-globose, stipitate at 
the base, about } in. long, with a very large smooth ostiolar prom 
nence, the rest wrinkling like a dried plum when dry ; peduncle 2-32 
lin. long, rather slender, glabrous. Basal bracts early caducous, 
leaving behind the small persistent unilateral base, glabrous. Ostiole 
small and pore-like ; bracts few, all descending into the receptacle, 
glabrous. Male flowers with a solitary stamen. Female flowers 
sessile. Gall flowers stalked.—F. Columbarum, Hochst. l.c., name only. 
F. Volkensii, Warb. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 167; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. 
Welw. i. 1007; Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 249. F. 
Durbanii, Warb. in Viertelj. Naturforsch. Ges. Ziirich, li. 142. 
chrysocerasus, Welw. ex Warb. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 167; Hiern 10 
Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 1005. F. Dekdekena, Mildbr. & Burret, Le. 
255, partly, not of A. Rich. F. natalensis, var. pedunculata, Sim, 
For. Fl. Port. E. Afr. 98, t. xc. fig. A. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Kwahu, Johnson, 639! near Aburi, Brown, 
— ne ace New Tegel, Winkler, 205! Fernando Po: on the beach, 
ann, ! ' 
Nile Land. Uganda: Entebbe, Dawe, 108! Buddu; Sango, Dawe, 319: 
962! Toro; near Mpanga, Bagshawe, 1186 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Libongo, in woods, Welwitsch, 6357! Golungo 
Alto: near Sange, Welwitsch, 6346 ! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Sacleux, 1170! German East Africa: Derem 
Volkens, 136! Scheffler, 115! Amani, Zimmermann, 902! 924' 9641 Busst 
2243! behind Sadani, Hngler, 1663! Uluguru Mountains, Stuhlmann, 894! 
Holtz, 1270! Mhonda, Holtz, 1240! Dar-es-Salaam, Stuhlmann, 63a ! Engler, 
2200! Lindi district, Busse, 2881! Kibata, Busse, 3108! Masailand, Hollis’ 
Nyasaland: Upper Shire Valley, Kirk, 5! 
Occurs also in Natal and extratropical Portuguese East Africa. ig 
According to Dawe this species, of which the vernacular name is “ Sang 
