210 CXXIIIc. MORACE (Hutchinson). [ Ficus. 
broad circular persistent base closely appressed to the base of the 
receptacle. Ostiole smal] and pore-like ; bracts all descending into 
the receptacle, glabrous. Male flowers with a solitary stamen.—f. 
Leprieuri, Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 246, partly, not 
of Miq. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 838! 1541 partly! 2428! 
Ebolowa district ; between the River Jah and Sangmelima, Mildbraed, 5471! 
and without precise locality, Buchholz, 174! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Limbareni, Buchholz, 180! 
168. F. persicifolia, Welw. ex Warb. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 162. 
A singular tree, “ with very bright flowers ” (Welwitsch), when young 
parasitical after the fashion of Visewm album, Linn., growing on 
Adansonia, when adult throwing out its own roots close to the trunk 
of its host and becoming a tree, embracing with the lower flattened 
reticulate part of its trunk that of its host and somewhat confluent 
with its surface, but above separated from it and forming a cylindrical 
trunk ; head dense, with its branches and glossy leaves emulating 
the form of its host ; bark from whitish to grey, like that of the 
Adansonia. Leaves narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, gradually sub- 
acutely or obtusely acuminate, gradually narrowed to a broadly 
obtuse base, 13-53 in. long, 3-1} in. broad, entire, thinly chartaceous 
or submembranous, glabrous and dull on both surfaces, often darker 
coloured above ; midrib often slightly impressed above, prominent 
below, about $ lin. broad near the base, becoming very slender 
towards the apex ; lateral nerves about 15 on each side of the midrib, 
arising from the latter almost at right angles, distinct on both 
surfaces, slightly prominent below, looped near the margin ; velDs 
slender, distinct but not prominent below, rather close; petiole 
3-1 in. long, channelled above, glabrous ; stipules often persistent 
on the young leafy sterile shoots, caducous on the flowering ones, 
linear-lanceolate, acute, about 2 in. long, submembranous, striate, 
glabrous, brown when dry. Receptacles axillary or in the axils of 
fallen leaves, usually two together, crowded, pedunculate, globose, 
resembling very small peas, 2-23 lin. in diam., glabrous ; peduncle 
rather slender, 14-3 lin. long, very minutely puberulous. Basal 
bracts 3, connate at the base, broadly ovate, rounded at the apex, 
coriaceous, glabrous or nearly so, at length falling off and leaving an 
orbicular plate closely appressed to the receptacle. Ostiole small, 
not at all prominent ; bracts few and small, all descending into the 
receptacle. Male flowers subsessile; perianth-segments obovate. 
membranous, glabrous. Anther solitary, subsessile. Female flowers 
sessile ; perianth short. Achene subglobose, smooth ; style shorter 
than the achene, with a large oblong stigma—Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 
C. 162, t.8 G-J; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 1007; Warb. 
Warb. & De Wild. Fic. FI. Congo, 15, t. xiv. figs. 1-4, incl. vars. 
glabripes and angustifolia, Warb. l.c.; Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. 
