530 MORACE.^ (Hutchinson), ^ [Fims. 



slender ; ^all-flowers pedicellate. EnqL Hocltgehirgsjl, Trap, Afr. 

 191 ; Wark in Engl Pfi. O^t-Afr. C. 161 ; Eutcldnson in Prain, FL 

 Trop, Afr. vi. ii. 121. Urosfigma ingens, Miq. in Hook, Lond. Journ, 

 Bot, v3. 554. Z7. xantTiOpTiyUuuu ^iq- ^n HooJc. I.e. Z7. caffritm, Miq. 

 Afr. Vijge-Boom. 31. Z7. xantliophjllum^ var, ovato-cor datum, Sond. 

 in Linmea, xxiii. 136. Ficus schimperiana, Hochst ex A. Bich. Tent, 

 FL Abyss, ii. 266, and in Ferr. & Galin, Voy, Abyss, Atlas, /. ii- 

 jP. xantliophylla, Steiid. ex Miq, in Hooh Lond. Journ, Bot, vi. 554, 

 F, caffra, Miq. Ann. Mus, Bot. Liigd.-Bat, iii. 288. F, j^ondoensis, 

 Warb, in Vierelj. Naturforsch, Ges. Zurich^ li. 140. F, magavjensisy 

 Sim, For. FL Port, E, Afr, 99, L xciii. Jig, B. F. cordata, Siu), 

 For. FL Cape Col 308, t.'lod, not of Thunh. F, lutca, Mildbr. d' 

 Barret in Engl. JaJirh, xlvi. 209, not of VaJd. 



Var. Qj tomentosa (Hutchinson) ; mature receptacles softly tomentose. 



South Africa: without precise locality, Zeyhcr, 1540 ! 



Coast Hegiox : Albany Div. ; Blauw Krantz, near Grahamstown, Burtt-Dai'ify 

 7814 ! Alicedale Poort, Salisbunj, 442 ; Stutterheim Div. ; Fort Cunninghame, 

 Sim, 252S ! King Williams Town Div. ; Mount Coke, Sim, 1528 ! Komglia Div. ; 

 among rocks between Komgha and Keimouth, Flanagan, 850 ! var. /S ; Queens- 

 town Div, ; Zwartkei River Yalley, Junction Farnj, Galpin, 8173 ! 



Kalahari Regiox : Transvaal; near Pretoria, Reiimann, 4434! 4435! Miss 

 Leendertz, 150 I BurU-Davy, 2883 I 7787 ! 14613 ! Magaliesberg Range, BurU 1 

 Lydenburg district, Wihns^ 1318 I between Spitzkop and Konxati River, Wdntity 

 1847 1 Houtboseh (\Yoodbush), Behmann, 641)0 ! Limpopo Valley, IfutcJdiis, 12 i 

 near Mbabane, Bolus, 12299 ! Jeppes Town Ridges, near Johannesburg, Gilfillan 

 in Ilerh. Galjpin, 6248 ! kopje above Geldenhuis Mine, Ommanney, 148 ! Vi^t 



Potgieters Rust, Miss Leendertz, 1263 1 Komati Poort, Bayers, 2617! Majatas 

 Nek, Burtt-Davy, 142 1 



Eastern Rkgion : Griqualand East ; Mount Fletcher, Sim, 2407 ! Pondoland ; 

 Umsibaka, Baclimann, 425 ! 429 ! Xatal ; Umgeni, Sim, 7126 ! Bushmans River, 

 Sim, 7124 ! Klipp River, Rehmann, 7284 ! Ifafa Valley, Budatis, 1010 ! and 

 without precise locality, Coojter^ 1142 I Gerrard, 1857 ! 



Widely spread in Tropical Africa. 



5. P. cordata (Thunb. Diss. Fie. 8, with figure) ; brandies some- 

 Avliat elongated and straight, covered with yellowish-brown pube- 

 rulous grooved bark ; young lateral branchlets short and twiggjr 

 densely and softly tomentose ; leaves ovate-elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 

 rounded or very slightly subcoi-date at the base, acutely acuminate^ 

 H-4| in. long, ^-2 in. broad, rigidly coriaceous, equally strongly 

 reticulate on both surfaces, glabrous ; midrib continued to the apex 

 of the leaf-blade; lateral nerves 5-7 on each side of the midrib,, 

 looped and much-branched well within the margin, somewhat 

 flexuous, equally prominent on both surfaces; petiole i-1^ in. long, 

 grooved when dry, glabrous ; stipules caducous, acutely acuminate, 

 softly tomentose ; receptacles axillary, sessile or very shortly 

 pedunculate, mostly in pairs, slightly depressed-globose, about \ in. 

 in diam., spotted, minutely puberulous; basal bracts rounded, hairj 

 outside, about one-third as long as the receptacles ; ostiole with 2 or 

 3 overlapping rounded bracts visible from the outside ; male flowers 

 feWj near the ostiolar bracts ; perianth membranous ; stamen solitary ; 

 female flowers subsessile, numerous; achene smooth. Thunh, FL 



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