538 MOKACE.'E (Hutchinson). [Fietts, 



below ; tertiary nerves and veins usually nearly as prominent as 

 the priucipal lateral ones, more or less straw-coloured ; petiole up 

 to H in, long, glabrous; stipules caducous; receptacles axillary, 

 paired or solitaiy, pedunculate, globose or ovoid-globose, 4-5 lin. 

 long, brownish, pubescent when dry, sometimes woolly-pubescent ; 

 peduncle 1-2^ lin. long, shortly pubescent ; basal bracts cadu- 

 cous, pubescent ; ostiole pore-like, protruded, with the bracts 

 descending vertically into the receptacle, glabrous ; male flowers 

 with a membranous glabrous perianth and a single stamen ; female 

 flower sessile ; style slender ; gall-flowers staked. 3Iildbr. d' Barret 

 in Engl, JaJtrL xliv. 262 ; Rafchinson in Prain, FL Trap. Afr, vi. ih 

 202. _F. Erid-Rosenii, B. E. Fries in Wiss. Ergch. Scliwed. Ehod- 

 Kongo-Exped. i. 15, Jig, I, Urostigma BurJcet, Miq, in HooJc. Loud, 

 Jonrn, Bot. vi. 555. 



Kalahari Regiox : Transvaal ; Maoalisberg Range, Burhe I near the Won- 

 derboom, Burtt-Bary, 2652 ! 7154 ! "Wonderboom Poort, Miss Leeaderiz, 

 625 1 Kelly's Store, BufFels, Barti-Davy, 2S60 ! between the Oliphants and Steel- 

 poort Rivers, Transvaal Estate & Bcielo]^, Co, \ Woodbush, liatchhis \ Modjajie 

 Moinitain, 'Burtt-Baiy, 26-i6 ! near ^'ytstroom, Bartt-Davy, 2088! between 

 Tzaneen and Medenjer, Burtt-Dary, 5249 I 



Occurs also in South Tropical Africa. 



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16. F. depauperata (Sim, Tor. Fl Port. E. Afr. 98, t. xc. fig. B.) ; 



branchlets tAviggy, slender, very minutely puberulous ; leaves oblan- 



ceolatej rounded at tlie apex, gradually narrowed to the base, 1-1 {> 



in. long, 4-7 lin. broad, entire, thinly chartaceouSj glabrous and dull 



on both surfaces ; midrib slightly prominent on both surfaces, not 



continued quite to the apex of the blade ; lateral nerves about 5 on 



each side of the midrib, visible on the upper surface, very numerous 



and more or less flabellate beluw, prominent ; petiole slender, 2-3 



lin. long, glabrous ; stipules early deciduous ; receptacles in axillary 



pairs, pedunculate, globose, 2 lin. in diam., laxly reticulate when 



dry, glabrous; peduncle 1-1^ lin. long, slender, softly puberulous; 



basal bracts 3, persistent, broadly ovate, rounded at the apex, ^- lin. 



long, coriaceous, minutely puberulous outside ; ostiole depressed, 



wrinkled outside^ bilabiate ; bracts all descending, the two next to' 



the ostiole longer than the others, linear, the others subulate, 



glabrous ; male flowers small, sessile ; perianth-segments reddish, 



with membranous margins ; anther solitary, subsessile ; female 



flowers slightly larger than the male ; style scarcely exserted, 



several stigmas often cohering. Hatchimon in Prain, FL Trop, Afr, 

 vi, ii. 204. 



Eastkkn Regiox : Delagoa Bay ; Lorenzo Maniues, Sim, 5031 I 

 Occui^ also in Eastern Tropical Africa. 



17. F. natalensis (Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 88) ; a shrub or small 



tree ; branchlets covered with greyish glabrous bark ; leaves 

 oblanceolate or obovate-oblanceolate, obtusely pointed or rounded 

 at the apex, narrowed to the base, l|-34 in. long, \-l\ in. broad. 



