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9. Frovs ($ Sycamorvs) Sycamorvs, L.—Sycamorus antiquorum, Gasp.; Miq. Monog. 
Ficuum, in Hook. Journ. Bot. 1848, 109. Arbor; ramulis petiolisque tomentoso-hir- 
tellis, demum glabriusculis ; foliis late ovatis v. ovato-rotundatis, obtusis v. late acutatis, 
basi cordatis 3-5-nerviis, integris, repandis v. lobato-angulatis, supra scabriusculis demum 
glabratis, subtus in costis hirtellis v. brevissime tomentosis ; “ receptaculis supra ramulos 
aphyllos е trunco vel ramis vetustioribus protrusos racemosis, pedunculatis, turbinatis, 
junioribus molliter tomentellis.”—App. Speke’s Journ. 647. 
Folia 4-6 poll. longa, 3-6 poll. lata; petiolus 4-2 poll. longus. 
Hab. Found along the whole route, Col. Grant! Abundant in the Lower Nile valley. 
Occurs also in Abyssinia. 
[This is called the genuine fig-tree by our men, the © m’kooyoo,” “ m’weela” (Kin.)—m’kooyoo being the 
generic name given by natives to all fig-trees. Found from 5° 8. lat. to Egyptian territory. Leaves glossy, 
soft, limp, with dark green surfaces, and numerous at the tips of the branches. Fruit, unripe in December, 
growing on the main stem and branches in clusters of two to five. It is now pear-shape, the size of a large 
marble; the surface dull in colour and spotted with green : there are five purple marks along its length.— 
J.A.G.] 
Plate XCIX. fig. 1. Female flower; fig. 2. Longitudinal section of young fig; fig. 3. 
Single fruit; fig. 4. Mature fig. 
3. Ficus no. 8, App. Speke’s Journ. 647. 
I cannot satisfactorily identify this species, though the leaves resemble those of a plant distributed by 
Dr. Schweinfurth from Matamma as Urostigma luteum, Miq. (Ficus lutea, V.). Col. Grant’s Ficus is a 
large tree, glabrous—excepting the annual shoots, which are thinly pubescent, and the pale shortly tomen- 
tose stipules. The leaves are oblong-lanceolate acute from a subcordate 3-nerved base. The fig is glo- 
bose, glabrous, pale, } inch in diameter, shortly pedicellate, and apparently from a short lateral common 
peduncle. 
- Hab. Madi, Jan. 1868, Col. Grant ! 
[The “ millæandægæ ” (Kis.) fig-tree. Trunk 12 feet in circumference at 4 feet from the ground, found 
by a pool of water, over and under which its thick bare roots were growing. In January the foliage was 
dense and autumn-tinted; the leaves thin, tender, 4 inches long, and growing in terminal tufts. The 
fruit grows from and below the leaf-axils, has the three sepal-marks and a circle at its flattened tip, is 
- pear-shape when unripe, and half an inch in diameter. We eat its fruit on the Nile in February, and con- 
sidered it richer than any fig we had tasted in Africa.—J. A. б.) 
4. Ficus ($ Urostiema) Korscuyana ?, Miq. Monog. Ficuum, in Hook. Journ. Bot. 
1847, 553; App. Speke’s Journ. 647. 
A single leaf only. 
Hab. Madi, Dec. 1862, Col. Grant! 
[The *imkoo ” fig-tree, found from 5° $. to 3° 15! N. lat. Several noble specimens were observed ; 
one measured 12 feet in circumference 5 feet from the ground; another was 20 feet. Planks 10 feet 
long might have been cut from them ; here it branched into two or three immense boughs. Bark grey, 
scaly, like that of old sycamores. The boughs were tortuous, round, and red-barked. Smaller trees have 
their young branches marked by rings on the bark, which is much used in making bark sheets and ropes. 
Leaves single, 9 by 3 inches, broadly ovate, and pointed. The fruit grows from the tips of the branches, - 
globular, half an inch in diameter, pink, glossy, thick, with a crisped pubescence, many-seeded, and 
sweet. The milk is used by bird-catchers.—J. A. С.) 
