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Ficus^ MORACE.E (Ilufcchinson). 529 



sessile ; acliene brightly shining ; style longer than the achene, 

 slender; gallHowers pedicellate. Hatchinson in Prain, Fl. Trop. 

 Afr. vi. ii. 116. F. salici folia, Balfour, Bot. of Socofrn, 282, not of 

 Vald. F. sallcifoUa, Warh. In Engl Pfl. Od-Afr. C. U'l, parthi, 

 not of Vahl; Mildhr. d: Burret in Engl Jahrh. xlvi. 206, parfli/, not 

 of Vahl. F. sallcifoUa, var. australis, Warh. in Viertelj. NaturforscU. 

 Ges. Ziiricli, li. 139. 



Kalahari Regiox : Transvaal ; "Wonderboom Poorfc, near Pretoria, Miss 

 Leendertz, 1501 Atherstonel Galpin, 6973! Burtt-Davij, 26451 7147! 8066! 

 S915 ! Schonland, 16G7 ! Wonderboom Farm, Bartt- Bar jj, 665! 2S06 I 2276 ! 

 Wonderfontein, Marico District, Bartt-Darg, 7549 ; Kopjies near Pretoria, Bartt- 

 ^ctf^, 2750 1 Daspoort Road, B artt- Bar ij , 2383 ! Mosilikatses Nek, Burtt-Davy, 



Eastern- Regio:^: Natal; without precise localityj Gerravd, 1185! Portuguese 

 East Africa ; Ressano Garcia. Schleehter, 11909 I 



F. Pretorue is the famous " "Wonderboom'' tree of Pretoria, an account of uhich 

 was given by J. Bartt-Davy in the Trans, of the Royal Soc. of South Africa for 

 1912. According to him '*the tree spreads in a peculiar manner. Some of the 

 branches from the centre spread out laterally iii a radial direction and gradually 

 droop tovvurdii the ground. At a distance of about 30 ft. thev come in contact 

 With it and send out roots from which new groups of stems arise. From these 

 other branches may be ^ixen off, still in the same direction, and these coming in 

 contact with tbe ground may become rooted in their turn and send up a third 

 group of stems, , . . The whole forms a large hemispherical mass covered with 

 evergreen leaves and small figs. Its diameter from N.X.E. to S.S.W. is 162^ ft. 

 «ind from E. to W. 141 J ft. Its height . . . was 67 ft." 



A photograph of the Pretoria ^- Wonderboom " was presented by the late Hon. 

 ^. Ellis to Sir William Thiselton-Dyerj who in tui-n presented it to the Royal 

 botanic Gardens, Kew. 



The species is also found in Tropical Africa and Socotra. 



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4. F, ingens {Miq. in Ana. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. iii. 288) ; a tree 

 or. shrub; young brauclilets stout, with dull grey bark; leaves 

 ovate or ublou^-ovate, rounded at the apex, deeply cordate or 



rouiided-traacate at the base, 3^-6 in. long, 3^-4 m. broad^ entire, 

 <^hartaceous, glabrous, slightly shining above^ finely warted between 

 the veins below, finely reticulate on both surfaces, light glaucous- 

 ffreen when dry ; midrib flat above, prominent below, about f lin. 

 broad at tlie base, gradually tapered to the apex ; lateral nerves 

 8-9 on each side of the midrib, nearly equally prominent on both 

 surfaces, diver^dnif from the midrib at a very wide angle, pro- 



I'n fr.nn fhc martrin : tertiarv nerves lax 



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long, 



sulcata, glabrous ; stipules deciduous, not seen ; receptacles axillary, 

 mostly in pairs, shortly pedunculate, globose, rounded at the base, 

 4~-5 lin. in diam., warted when dry, glabrous or slightly pubescent ; 

 peduncle 1-3 lin. long, or shorter, stout, very slightly puberulous ; 

 basal bracts 2, ovate, rounded at the apex, subpersistent, coriaceous ; 

 ostiole closed with about 3 visible imbricate bracts spreading 

 horizontally across it, not conspicuous ; male flowers subsessile, with 

 a solitary stamen; female flowers sessile; ovary smooth; style 



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