^icus.] MOEACE.E (Hutcliinson). 527 



Kalahari Region: Transvaal; Blaii Berg, Zoutpansberg Range, Bxirtt'Davy, 

 2988! llidihiwd, Burtt'Dary^ 2895 a! near Barberton, Legat, 13091 24511 Bar- 

 "berton Mountains, Burtt-Davy, 283 ! 323 ! 3488 ! 3503 ! 8043 ! Target Valley, 

 Thorncroft^ 6612 ! Swaziland ; Em Babaan, Burtt-Dary, 2890 1 Meintjies Kon. 

 Pretoria, Burtt-Davy, 5054 ! 



Eastern Region: Natal; without precise locality, Gcrrard, 1632! 

 ■ Occurs also in Tropical Africa and Arabia. 



y" 2. F. capensis (Thunb, Diss. Fie. 13); a shrub or small cauli- 

 florous tree ; branchlets glabrous or softly pubescent, with pointed 

 more or less villous buds ; leaves ovate or ovate-elliptic, obtuse or 

 shortly acuminate, rounded, slightly cordate or shortly cuueate at 

 the base, 2|— 9 in. long, H-5 in. broad or sometimes more, usually 

 coarsely repand and obtusely dentate, chartaceous or thinly coria- 

 ceous, glabrous or softly pubescent especially on the midrib and 

 lateral nerves ; midrib prominent below, gradually narrowed to 

 the apex of the blade ; lateral nerves usually about 6-7 on each 

 side of the midrib, diverging from the midrib at an angle of about 

 45^, arcuate, gradually fading towards the margin and branched ; 

 veins rather closely reticulate below ; petiole variable, up to 3 in. 

 longj sulcate, glabrous or pubescent ; stipules oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute, villous or nearly glabrous outside, caducous ; receptacles 

 borne in leafless simply branched panicles on the maiu stem or when 

 shrubby towards the base of the branches ; panicles up to nearly 

 1 ft. longj ijlabrous or nearlv so ; peduncles .^-4 in, long, glabrescent ; 



receptacles obovoid or obovoid-globose, subrounded or stipitate at 

 the base, |-1 in, long, with a usually prominent mammillate ostiole, 

 glabrous; basal bracts whorled, 3, ovate triangular, often slightly 

 hairy; ostiole prominent, with numerous often hairy bracts 

 spreading transversely across the orifice ; male flowers subsessile ; 

 perianth hyaline, enveloping the 2 subsessile anthers ; female 

 flowers very shortly pedicellate ; perianth-segments oblong-lanceo- 

 late, acute, membranous, glabrous ; achene obliquely ellipsoid, 

 shining; style laterally inserted. Thunh. FL Cap. ed. Schdt. 34; 

 Mildbr. dt Barret in En<jh Jahrb. xlvi. 195, jmrtly and excL var. 

 mallatocarpa, MiJdhr, (t Barret, Ic. 198; Sim, For, FL Cape 

 Col 307, /. 135; Hutcldnson in Prain, FL Trop. Afr. vi. ii. lOl. 

 F. Llchtcnsteinii, Linlc, Emm. ii. 451 ; Drege, Zivei Pfl. Docii- 

 mente, 133. F. Brassii, B, Br. in Trans. Hort Soc. Loud. v. 

 448. F. tJionningianaj M!q. in Ann. 3Iu8. Bot Lurjd.-Bat iii. 295. 

 F. capensis, var. gidneensis, Miq. le. F. capensis, var, ^ tri- 

 choneura, Warh. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 153, and var. pubescens, Warb. 

 in De Wild. & Durand, Beliq, Dewevr. 215. F. Sycomorus, var. 

 prodigiosan Welw. ex Siern in Cat Afr. PI Welw. I lQV2,and var. 

 alnea, Hiern, and var. polybotrya, Hlern, I.e. 1013 and 1014. 

 F. plafeiocarpa, Warb. in Engl Jalirh. xxx. 292. F. steUulata, 

 var. glahrescens, Warb. in Warb. <t Be Will Ficus FL Cong. vi. 

 27. >. vilhsipes, Warb. Ic. 28. F. erubescens, Warb. Ic. 29, t. vi. 

 F. Munsse, Warh. I.e. 29, t. xvii. F. guineensis, Stapf in Johnston,, 

 Liberia, ii. 652. F. Jciboschensis, Warb., F, hcaiensis, Wark, 



