214 CXXIIIc. MORACE (Hutchinson). | Fieus. 
pedunculate, glabrous, about the size of a grape, involucrate at 
the base. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: near Mai Gouagoua, Quartin Dillon ; near Adowa, 
Petit! : 
Mildbraed and Burret knew this plant only from description, and suggested 
that it might be identical with F. salictfolia, Vahl. 
174. F. elasticoides, De Wild. in Fedde, Repert. xi. 302. A tree 
with thick fissured lenticellate bark. Leaves obovate or obovate- 
elliptic, shortly and subacutely acuminate, cuneate at the base, 
5-10 in. long, 23-4 in. broad, entire, coriaceous, glabrous on both 
surfaces ; midrib slightly convex above, prominent below, about 
3 lin. broad at the base, gradually tapered to and very slender at 
the apex of the blade; lateral nerves very numerous, about 25 on 
each side of the midrib, diverging from it at a wide angle, nearly 
straight, looped about 1} lin. from the margin, the loops forming 
a crenate intramarginal nerve distinct on both surfaces; tertiary 
nerves only slightly less prominent than the lateral and following 
their direction ; veins rather lax and somewhat indistinct ; petiole 
longitudinally wrinkled, 14-23 in. long, glabrous ; stipules not seen, 
probably early deciduous. Receptacles in axillary pairs, peduncu- 
late, globose, greenish-yellow with white spots, slightly more than 
4 in. in diam., glabrous ; peduncle 24 lin. long, puberulous. Basal 
bracts soon falling away and leaving behind a large circular finely 
tomentose portion. Ostiole 2-lipped, not prominent ; bracts all 
descending into the receptacle. Male flowers with a solitary stamen, 
nny oa in a perfect condition—De Wild. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 
n. 207. 
Upper Guinea. Ivory Coast: Aboisso, Chevalier, 16293! Cameroons : 
Molundu district ; old French frontier between 3.35° and 4° N., Mildbraed, 
4768 ! between Lokomo, Bumba and Bange, Mildbraed, 4357! 4444! 
Lower Guinea. Belgian Congo: Illongonga, Sapin ! Lukulela, Laurent ! 
Imperfectly known species. 
175. F. Afzelii, Don in Loud. Hort. Brit. 416, name only. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone. 
This is probably F. eriobotryoides, Kunth & Bouché. 
176. F. argentea, Mig. in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iii. 220. 
Described from a garden plant, West Africa being suggested as the native 
country ; evidently closely allied to F. eriobotryoides, Rant & Bouché. I 
have not seen a specimen. ; 
177. F. Cabre, Warb. in Warb. & De Wild. Fic. Fl. Congo, 9. 
A tree. Leaves elliptic or oblong-elliptic, shortly and obtusely 
acuminate, rounded at the base, 9-10 in. long, 4-43 in. broad, 
