526 MORACE^ (Hutchinson). [Ficns. 



Lateral nerves 8-9 on each side of the 

 midrib ; ostiole large and umbonate ; 

 receptacles often stipitate at the base (17) natalensis. 



Lateral nerves 9-12 ; ostiole small ; recep- 

 tacles not stipitate (18) gurichiana. 



Lateral nerves about 5 ; venation close and 

 delicate on the lower surface of the 

 leaves; ostiole small, not umbonate (19) Burtt-Davyi. . 



1. r. Sycomoriis (Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 1059); a large tree with 

 spreading crown ; young branchlets with a circle of long slender 

 hairs just below the node, otherwise glabrous or nearly so; leaves 

 suborbicular or ovate-orbicular, rounded or obtuse at the apex, 

 cordate or rounded at the base, 2-5 in. long, 1t-3| in. broad, sub- 

 entire or slightly undulately toothed, dull and glabrous on both 

 surfaces or minutely puberulous below, sometin:ies slightly scabrous, 

 palmately nerved at the base ; midi'ib prominent below, continued 

 to the apex of the blade ; principal pair of basal nerves ascending 

 to above the middle of the leaf-blade, with 8-10 lateral nerves on 

 their lower sides; remaining lateral nerves about 3 on each side 

 of the midrib, diverging from it at an angle of about 40^, distinct 

 on both surfaces, prominent below, bifurcate near the margin ; 

 tertiary nerves very slender, wavy between the lateral ones ; veins 

 very delicate and close ; petiole relatively short, f-lf in. long, at 

 first finely papillose and pilose, at length glabrous ; stipules 

 deciduous, those surrounding the terminal bud lanceolate, villous ; 

 receptacles in leafless panicles produced on the main branches or on 

 the stem, obovoid-globose, sometimes stipit^ate at the base, about 

 1 in. in diam., with a conspicuous ostiole, softly tomentose ; basal 

 bracts 2, opposite, ovate, subcoriaceous, pubescent outside; ostiole 

 with numerous exserted suberect bracts ; outer bracts ovate- 

 triangular, subacute, coriaceous, finely puberulous or glabrescent 

 outside, inner ones spreading horizontally across the ostiole, the 

 imiermost lunger and descending into the receptacle, glabrous ; male 

 flowers sessile near the ostiole ; perianth membranous, covering the 

 1-3 stamens ; anther-cells free at the base ; female flowers shortly 

 pedicellate ; style quite lateral, reddish, with an oblong yellow 

 stigma. Miq. in Ann. Mas. BoL Liigd.-Bat. iii. 282; Oliv. in Trans, 

 Linn. Soc. xxix. U9, /. 99 ; Enjl & Dritde, Veget. Erde, ix. i. pt i- 

 46, Jig, 3S;MiMbK d^ Burret in Engl Jahrb. xlvi. 191, Jig. 1, -B; 

 Hutchinson in Prain, FL Trap. Afr. vi. ii. 95. F. Sycomoriis vera^ 

 ForsJc, FL ^gypt-Arah, 180. F/Chanas, Forsh. Ic. 219. F. integri- 

 folia, Sim, For. FL Port. E. Afr, 101, t, Ixxxix. F. Jlavidoharha, 

 WarK, F. palUdolarba, Wcn% F, uTcambensis, Warb., and F. Ue})lia- 

 roplioray Warb. ex Mildbr. d Burret in EngL Jahrb. xlvi. 192, 

 names only. Sycoraonis antiquorum, Gasp, BicercJi, Caprif, Fie. 8G ; 

 Miq, in Hooh, Lond, Journ, BoL vli. 109 and Afr. Yijge-Boom, 10, 

 /. 1, fig. A; KotscJiy, Plantse Binderianse. 4. Sycomonis rigida, Miq- 

 inHooTc. Lond, Journ. Bot, vii. 110, and Afr, Vijge-BoomAO, t.l, 

 Jig. B ; Kotschjy Ic. 



