Ficus] cxvii. MORACE^. 997 



at the somewhat unequal base, 3- or 5 -nerved at or near the base, 

 coriaceous, somewhat glossy and deep green abov'e, paler beneath, 

 smooth, glabrous or nearly so, 4 to 7 in. long by 2 to SJ in. broad ; 

 principal lateral veins about 10 to 12 on each side in addition to 

 the basal nerves, slender ; reticulation minute; interspaces minutely 

 scaly-papillose ; petioles robust, shortly pubescent, H to 2^ in. 

 long ; stipules caducous, broad-based, apparently rather small ; 

 receptacles axillary, subsessile, subglobose, about ^ in. in diameter, 

 shortly pubescent, solitary or two together, the one examined 

 containing male flowers and barren female ones; basal bracts 

 puberulous on the back, united into a small shortly cleft cup ; 

 ostiole small; male flowers with a hyaline unequally 3- to 

 5 -partite or -cleft perianth ; stamen solitary, the filaments united 

 below to an abortive pistillode ; barren female flowers with a 

 short hyaline 4- or 5 -cleft perianth or similar to that of the 

 male flowers. 



Bumbo. — In the more elevated forests of Serra da Xella (Chao da 

 Xella) ; male fl. and unripe fr. Oct. 1859. No. 6365. 



This belongs to the section Pal^omorphe of King. 



The following No. should be compared with this species, but I 

 have not had the opportunity of examining the structure of the 

 receptacle : — 



GoLUXGu AltC). — A strongly lactescent tree of moderate size ; 

 branches spreading, also nearly horizontal ; branchlets smooth, 

 glabrous ; leaves alternate, oval or broadly ovate, entire or slightly 

 sinuous-repand, very shortly and obtusely or abruptly acuminate at 

 the apex, broadly and unequally or slightly hollowed at the 5-nerved 

 base, coriaceous, smooth, glabrous, glaucescent-green above, light green 

 beneath, 9 to 11 in. long by 5^ to 7 in. broad ; principal lateral v^eius 

 6 to 12 on each side in addition to the basal nerves, in clear relief 

 beneath ; tertiary and net-veins close, in relief beneath ; interspaces 

 minutely scaly-pulverulent beneath, minutely pitted above ; petioles 

 stout, smooth, glabrous or puberulous, 2^ to 3f in. long ; receptacles 

 large, the size of a pigeon's egg, 1 J in. long by f in. thick, ellipsoidal, 

 puberulous, subs(issile, dusky, laterally bracteate at the base. In 

 shady forests around Bango, Quilombo, and Canguerasange, not un- 

 common ; also on sunny declivities ; fr. Nov. 1854. No. 6398. 



The fungus n. 74, Phyllachora reiJens Sacc, A. L. Sm. in Journ. Bot. 

 1898, p. 178, grew on the leaves of a species of Ficus, probably this 

 plant, at Sange in Nov. 1854 and July 1856. 



The following three Nos. apparently differ in various particulars 

 and by having large stipules ; the two last of them were con- 

 sidered by Welwitsch as possibly varieties of his F . pseudo-elastica ; 

 the foliage and stipules suggest F. syringifolia Warb. in Engl. 

 Bot. Jahrb. xx. p. 170 (1894), non F. syringcefolia Kunth and 

 Bouche Ind. Som. Berol. (1846) p. 35, but the lateral veins of the 

 leaves are rather more numerous : — 



A glabrous, parasitical tree, 30 to 50 ft. high ; trunk dimor- 

 phous, the young ones flattened and confluent with the mother 

 plant, the older ones cylindrical and emancipated from the matrix, 

 patently branched, suddenly becoming round and thick and then 



