Ficus.) CXXIIc. MORACE (Hutchinson). 215 
entire, subcoriaceous, dull on both surfaces, glabrous and closely 
reticulate above, shortly pubescent on the veins beneath; midrib 
flat above, very thick below, about 2} lin. broad at the base, gradually 
narrowed to the apex ; lateral nerves 9-10 on each side, spreading 
at an angle of about 60°, looped, prominent below, distinct above ; 
tertiary nerves wavy ; veins very close and prominent below, of the 
same colour as the epidermis of the leaf; petiole about 2 in. long 
on the specimen seen but probably longer, about } in. thick, 
minutely puberulous. Further characters not known. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Sigmate village, Cabra, 36! 
“SSA by the author from two leaves only; evidently allied to F. Bubu, 
arb. 
178. F. citharexifolia, Kotschy ex Mig. in Ann. Mus. Lugd.- 
Bat. iii, 232. 
Described from a garden plant, Africa being suggested by Miquel as its place 
Of origin, 
179. F. lutea, Vahl, Enum. ii.185. A rather tall tree, spreading ; 
branches sparse or somewhat whorled; branchlets glabrous. 
Leaves Sparse, ovate-oblong, acuminate, submarginate at the base, 
4-8 in. long, coriaceous, with whitish nerves, finely reticulate, pale 
green below, glabrous ; petiole about one-third the length of the 
leaves. Receptacles axillary, paired, globose, sessile, scarcely the 
Size of a cherry, with a bifid umbo at the apex, yellow. Basal 
bracts 4. : 
Upper Guinea: without precise locality, Thonning. 
The type of this species appears to have been lost. 
180. F. rugosa, G. Don in Loud. Hort. Brit. 416, name only. 
Africa suggested as native country. 
181. F rupium, Dinter, Deutsch. Siidw. Afr. 54. A tree up to 
40 ft. high with grey-white stem. Leaves like those of a cherry, 
but long-acuminate, drooping. Two-year-old wood often thickly 
Covered with edible figs the size of a strawberry. 
Lower Guinea. Damaraland: Salem,'Loakop River, Okahandja and other 
Places, Dinter. Z 
No specimen seen at Berlin and not accounted for in Mildbraed & Burret’s 
"evision ; probably one of the group Fasciculate. 
9. BOSQUEIOPSIS, De Wild. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me 
sér. i. 839; Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. li. 435. 
Flowers moneecious, inserted inside a globose-campanulate open 
androgynous or unisexual receptacle. Male flowers crowded, mixed 
