212 CXXIIIc, MORACEZ (Hutchinson). | Ficus. 
looped near the margin ; tertiary nerves and veins distinctly reticu- 
late below, often impressed above ; petiole slender, }-2} in. long 
with a single very narrow groove on the upper side, glabrous ; 
stipules deciduous, ovate-lanceolate, subacute, about { In. long, 
membranous, densely ciliate, otherwise glabrous, reddish-brown 
when dry. Receptacles axillary, often crowded together on the 
young shoots, mostly in pairs, pedunculate or nearly sessile, globose 
or ovoid-globose, 3-4 lin. in diam., glabrous or very obscurely 
puberulous ; peduncle 1-2 (rarely up to 4) lin. long, angular, glabrous 
or nearly so. Basal bracts 3, connate at the base, ovate, obtuse, 
about } lin. long, finely puberulous outside. Ostiole small, 2-lipped, 
with no bracts visible from the outside ; bracts all descending into 
the receptacle, the middle pair nearest the orifice larger than the others 
and oblong, rounded at the apex, membranous, about + lin. long, 
the others subulate-lanceolate, acute, membranous, all glabrous. 
Male flowers few; perianth-segments oblong-lanceolate, acute. 
Stamen solitary. Female flowers subsessile; perianth rathet 
short, membranous. Achene smooth; style lateral, slender, about 
as long as the achene, with an oblong thickened stigma.—Mildbr. & 
Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 255. F. T'sjela, Hochst. ex Mig. in Hook. 
Lond. Journ. vi. 558 (spelt Tjiela). F. acrocarpa, Steud. ex Miq. Lc. 
557. F. saligna, Hochst. ex Miq. l.c. 558. F. Bequertii, De Wild. 
in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 200. Urostigma Dekdekena, Miq. in Hook. 
Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 558. U. aerocarpum, Miq. 1.c. 557, t. xxii. b, 
incl. var. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast, Hvans, 4! Northern Nigeria: Yola, Dalziel, 
148! Maigana, near Zaria, Lamb, 62! Cameroons: Musgu, Vogel, 54! 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Anseba River, near Keren, Schweinfurth, 761! gorge 
of the Degerra River, Schweinfurth & Riva, 887! Abyssinia: Sholoda Moun- 
tains, Schimper, 220! near Mai Dogale, Schimper, 627! 629! near Ferrokoba, 
Schimper, 709! Mennewa, Schimper, 264! Sudan: Roseires, Cienkowsky, 130! 
Muriel, 21! Kordofan: Fazokl, Kotschy, 473! Singukai, Muriel, 151! Khor 
Ganna, near Dilling, Brown, 1313! 1314! Uganda: Entebbe, Bagshawe, 689! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: between Gambos Fort and the Mission station, 
Pearson, 2455! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Elizabethville, Bequaert, 449 ! 
171. F. Mildbredii, Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 344. A 
large epiphytic shrub ; branchlets angular, about } in. in diam. neat 
the apex, glabrous. Leaves oblong or oblong-oblanceolate, caudate- 
acuminate (acumen obtuse or subacute, }-4 in. long), narrowed to 
an obtuse base, 464 in. long, 14-2} in. broad, entire, rigidly corla- 
ceous, dull and glabrous on both surfaces; midrib flat above, vety 
prominent and straw-coloured below, 1} lin. broad at the base, 
gradually tapered and fading away towards the apex of the blade ; 
lateral nerves 9-11 on each side of the midrib, diverging from it almost 
at right angles, slender, distinct below, looped about 14 lin. from the 
margin ; tertiary nerves and veins forming a close somewhat straw- 
coloured reticulation below; petiole 3-1} in. long, fairly stout, 
