Treculia. | CXXIIIc, MORACE& (Hutchinson). 227 
glabrous. Seeds numerous, embedded in the synearp, according 
to Welwitsch sometimes more than 1500 in a single fruit, ellipsoid, 
about 4 lin. long and 3 lin. in diam., with thin and smooth coats.— 
Walp. Ann. i. 658 ; Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t.5986; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, 
272; Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. x. 162; Engl. Monogr. Morac. 
Afr. 32, tt. xii.—xiv. fig. B; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 1022. 
Myriopeltis edulis, Welw. ex Hook. f. l.c., name only. Ficus Welwit- 
schit, Mig. ex Hook. f. l.c., name only, not of Warb. Treculia 
affona, N.E.Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 360, and in Hook. Ic. Pl. 
t. 2353. TT. africana, var. nitida, Engl. lc. 33. T. Dewevrei, De 
Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 54, and Ill. Fl. Congo, 139, t. 
Ixx. Ficus Whytei, Stapf in Johnston, Liberia, ii. 650; Mildbr. & 
Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 269. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot. Sierra Leone: Scarcies Valley ; 
woods near Tawia, Scott Elliot, 4477! Liberia: Sinoe Basin, Whyte, 21! 
Southern Nigeria : Onitsa, also with a range from the Niger Delta to 30 miles 
above the confluence of the Niger and Benue Rivers, Barter, 432! Oloke Meji, 
Forster, 150! Yoruba, Millson! Cameroons: Ambas Bay, Mann, 773! 
y inde, Zenker, 3404 ! Batanga, Dinklage, 1411! and without precise locality, 
mbach, 3a. 
Nile Land. Niamniam: near Kulenjo, Schweinfurth, 2869! Uganda: 
Busiro, Dawe, 145! Buvuma Island, Victoria Nyanza, Bagshawe ! : 
Lower Guinea. Princes Island, Barter, 2001! St. Thomas Island, Quintas, 
169! W, elwitsch, 2589! Gaboon: probably introduced from St. Thomas 
Island, Klaine, 2097 ! Angola: Barra do Dande ; cultivated on Fazenda do 
Bombo, on the right bank of the River Dande, Welwitsch, 2588! Golungo 
Alto: Alto Queto Mountains, Welwitsch, 2587 ! : : 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Niamniam ; on the Yuru River, Schwein- 
furth, 3340! Assika River, Schedevafurth, 3318! Monbuttu; Bumba River, 
Schweinfurth, 3586; Umangi, Dewevre. ‘ : 
Mozamb. Distr. Nyasaland: west shore of Lake Nyasa, Kirk ! 
De Wildeman (Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 55) has laid considerable stress on the 
value of the number of stamens as a specific character, having found only 2 in 
the plant described by him as 7’. Dewevrei, pointing out that the type specimen 
of 7. africana from Senegambia was described as having 3-4 stamens. The 
number of stamens seems to be of little account, for in the same head may be 
found flowers with either 2 or 3 stamens, one of the anthers bein, often smaller 
than the others, whilst in other heads there are some flowers with 3 and others 
with 4 stamens. 
According to Barter, 7’. africana is the “ Bread-tree ” of the Lower Niger ; 
the fruit weighs from 18 to 30 lbs.; the seeds are ground by the natives and 
used as meal. 
Forster on his label states that the ‘‘ fruits are poisonous to horses. fe 
According to Millson the fruits are placed in heaps and fermented ; = see 
are afterwards gathered, ground into a paste and cooked by frying in pa : - : 
Although the fruits are regarded as poisonous to horses, sheep and goats, they 
are, according to Millson, the favourite food of elephants. — 
In Prince’s Island Barter states that the plant is known as Ogue by the e 
OW itech (cf. Hiern, l.c. 1023) states that in Angola the seeds are “‘ edible 
When cooked, as large as Pinus Pinea, L., and not dissimilar in taste, sometimes 
iled, sometimes roasted or prepared like sweetmeats and so eaten by ri at 
especially by the Mahungos and also by the colonists, and used in the —— ae 
of a kind of almond-milk which is truly refreshing drink in these hot rae tam an 
alleviates in a very great degree the thirst of those striken down with fever. 
