534 MORACEiE (Hutchinson). [Ficics. 



minutely puberulous ; basal bracts 4, ovate, rounded at the apex, 

 about 1 lin. long and broad, coriaceous, reddish-brown when dry, 

 glabrous; ostiolar bracts all descending yertically into the recep- 

 tacle, lanceolate, subacute, f-H lin. long, reddish, with rather 

 narrowly membranous margins, glabrous ; male flowers very few 

 near the ostiolar bracts, shortly pedicellate ; perianth enclosing the 

 solitaiy subsessile anther ; female flowers sessile, scattered amongst 

 the gall flowers ; perianth-segments 4, linear, subacute, about 1 lin. 

 long, hyaline ; achene ellipsoid ; style lateral, longer than the 

 achene j stigma bifid; gall-flowers pedicellate; pedicel stout, 1^ lin. 



long, glabrous ; ovary as in female flowers, but with a larger 



subsessile stigma ; scales of the receptacle subulate, acute, |- lin. 

 long, with veiy narrowly membranous margins. Hutchinson in PraiUy 

 FL Trop, Afr. vi. ii. 176. F. alutilifoUa, Mlq. Ann. Nus. BoL 

 Lugd.'BaL iii. 288, partli/. R picta, Sim, For, FL Port. E, Afr. 99, 

 f. xciv. fig, J3. Urostigma abuUUfolium, Miq, in Hook, Lond. Jonrn, 

 BoL vi. 551, parthj. 



South Africa: -witliout precise locality, Zeyher^ 1548 ! 1856 ! 



Kalah vni Regio>' : Transvaal ; MagaUesberg Range, Burke, 273 ! Englcr, 

 2795 ! Bartt-Davij, 7161 ! Wonderboompoort, MidS Leendertz, 449 ! Kudus Poort, 

 Rehmann, 4684 1 4686 1 Crocodile River, Burtt-I)avy, 225 ! Singerton, near 

 Hector Spruit, Bartt-Davy, 8007! near Nylstroom, Burtt-Bavy, 2362 1 Breslau, 

 Limpopo River, Legat, 51S3 ! 



Occurs also in Tropical Africa. 



10. F. Sonderi (Miq. in Ann. Mas. Bot. Liigd.-Bat. iii. 295); a 

 tree 20-30 ft., with a milky juice; branchlets twiggy, very shaggy- 

 villous with tawny hairs when young, at length shortly pubescent ; 

 leaves ovate-orbicular or suborbicular, rounded at the apex, slightly 

 cordate at the base, 2-4 in. long, l^-S:!^ ^'^^ broad, entire, rigidly 

 coriaceous, long-pilose or hirsute on both surfaces chiefly on the 

 midrib and lateral nerves, about 5-nerved at the base ; midrib f lin. 

 broad at the base, gradually tapered to the apex, flat above, pro- 

 minent and very hairy below; lateral nerves 4—5 on each side of 

 the midrib (excluding the basal nerves), diverging at an angle of 

 about 45"", arcuate, looped near the margin, distinct on both surfaces, 

 prominent below ; tertiary nerves much-branched, wavy, scarcely 

 visible above, prominent below ; petiole ^-1 In. long, densely hirsute- 

 pilose ; stipules persistent during the flowering period, ovate- 

 triangular, acutely acuminate, about | in. long and \ in. broad, 

 reddish when dry, thinly chartaceous, villous outside, glabrous and 



striate within ; receptacles crowded at the ends of the young 

 branchlets, axillary, geminate, sessile, subglobose, slightly umbonate, 

 nearly i in. in diam., villous; basal bracts 2, suborbicular, about 

 3 lin, broad, membranous, villous with yellowish hairs outside, 

 glabrous within; ostiole bilabiate, slightly projecting and a little 

 gaping when dry, about 1 lin. broad; bracts all descending into 

 the receptacle, the middle two a little larger than the others, oblong- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, 1^ lin. long, rather fleshy, glabrous, the othei^s 

 subacute and more membranous ; male flowers shortly pedicellate ; 



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