Ficus.'] MOKACE.^ (Hutchinson). 535 



pei'iantli enveloping the solitary subsessile anther; female flowers 

 subsessile ; perianth-segments acutely acuminate, membranous, 

 glabrous ; achene ellipsoid, smooth ; style slender, about half as 

 long as the achene ; stigma oblong, thick, as long as the style ; gall- 

 flowers pedicellate, w^ith obtuse perianth-segments and almost sessile 

 stigma ; receptacular scales f lin. long, flat, triangular, subacute. 

 Gibbs in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 470; Mildhr, & Burret in EmjL 



vi. ii. 169. 



Sycamorus liirsuta, Sond. in Linnvea^ xxxiii. 137. Ficns Helnnanni^ 

 Warlj, in ScJiinz, Viertelj. Natnrforsch. Ges, Ziirich, \l 136, F. Beh- 

 maiinii, vars. ovatifolia and villosa^ Warh, I.e. F. monfana, Sim, For. 

 FL Port. E, Aft. 101, t, xcv. A. F. glumosa, Mildbr. tt Burret in 

 Enyl. Jahrh. xlvi. 217, imrtly^ not of Delile. F. Engleri, Warb. ex 

 Mildhr, d Burret, lx\ 219, riame only, F. Kitaba, Be Wild, in Ball. 

 Soc. Bot Belg. Hi. 215. 



Kalahari Region: Transvaal; Target Yalley, Barbertoii, Thorncroft, 6611 J 

 G61-4 1 6615 1 Houtbosh, Rehmann, 6486! betweeu White Tliver and Nelspruit, 

 Burtt-Davif^ 1515 ! Mod Drift, Leendertz, 2117 ! between Nylstroom and Springbok 

 Flats, Uuvtt-Davy, 1726! near KyLstroom, Burtt-Dary, 2091! Warnibath, Burtt- 

 Davy, 2349 1 



Eastern Regiox : Natal ; Durban, GneinziuSy 415 1 Inanda, Wood, 1361 ! 

 Inclianga, Sim, 7127! Euf/ler, 2670! Camperdowu, Rehmann^ 7711! Zulaland ; 

 Port Durnford, Sim^ 71291 and without precise locality, Gerrard, 1577 ! 



Occurs also in Rhodesia and East Africa. 



11. F. Nekbudu (Warb. in Warb. & De Wild. Fie. Fl. Congo, 6, 

 t. iv.) ; a buge forest tree ; young branchlets stout, at first 

 aclpressed-pubescent, at length glabrous ; leaves spreading horizon- 

 tally, elliptic or obovate-elliptic, rounded at both ends or rarely 

 slightly cordate at the base, 6-15 in. long, 3^-8 in. broad, entire, 

 coriaceous, glabrous on both surfaces ; lateral nerves about 6 on 

 each side of the midrib, spreading from it at a wide angle, prominent 

 below, looped within the margin ; tertiary nerves rather lax, forming 

 with the veins a close network below ; petiole stout, 3-6 in. long, 

 covered with a flaky epidermis ; stipules caducous ; receptacles 

 axillary, sessile, paired, about J-j in. in diam., at first woolly-pilose, 

 at length adpressed-pilose ; basal bracts densely villous outside ; 

 ostiole small, pore-like, with the bracts all descending into the 

 receptacle; male flowers with a single stamen. Mildbr. d Burret in 



Emjl. JahrL xlvi. 239: 



ISO. 



Af 



Ah 



2420! and in Ihrl. Wood, 



Marques, 5/^,6125! Burti'Dary, 10556! 



12851 1 Delagoa Bay ; Lorenzc 



F. Nekbu<lu is grown as a street tree in Durban. It is also gro\TO in the Royal 

 Botanic Garden and at the Sierres Coloniales, Brussels, where specimens were seen 

 in 1913. A specimen of what seems to be the same species in the Kew Herbarium 

 labelled *^from Grahamstown *' was cultivated in the Royal Botanic Gardens, 

 Kew, ill 1876, 



According to Sim the plant described by him under the name F. utiVis oocuv^ 

 throughout Portuguese East Africa; I have compared his type specimen, 6125, 

 from Lorenzo Marques with the type of F. Kthbudu from the Congo and they 

 seem to be identical. Sim states that his plant is the source of all the native 

 cloth in the M'Chopes district. 



