1010 cxvii. MORACE^. [Ficus 



21. F. urceolaris Welw. ms. in herb., sp. n. 



A copiously lactescent shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high or rather more, 

 branched from the base, or a small tree, with the aspect of 

 Trymatococcus ; branches virgate, patent, subterete or roundly 

 angular, not pubescent, usually more or less scabrid, drab ; inter- 

 nodes mostly ^ to 2 in. long ; leaves alternate, elliptical or 

 somewhat oblong, narrowly cuspidate -acuminate at the apex, 

 very unequally contracted at the trinerved base, chartaceous- 

 coriaceous, glabrous, subglaucous green and nearly smooth or 

 slightly rough above, pale green and very rough beneath, some- 

 what toothed or repand on the narrowly re volute margin, 

 4 to 10| in. long by 1\ to 4 in. broad (or in the variety smaller); 

 the old ones and even the adult ones often nearly all pendulous ; 

 lateral veins about 6 to 8 on each side in addition to the basal 

 nerves, patent-arching, anastomosing, rather slender, scabrid and 

 in clear relief beneath, narrowly impressed above ; tertiary veins 

 patent ; net-veins slender ; interspaces minutely papillose- punctate 

 and scabrid beneath ; petioles J to £ in. long, scabrid, often bent 

 or flexuous, broad-based, channelled above ; stipules from a broad 

 base ovate, acute, scabrous on the back, |^ to i in. long, deciduous ; 

 receptacles axillary, 2 or 3 together or solitary, shortly pedunculate, 

 urceolate-pisiform, widely gaping at the apex, scabrid, |^ to J in. 

 in diameter ; basal bracts small or obsolete ; osteole comparatively 

 large, -^ to -^jj in. in diameter, prominent. In the receptacles which 

 were examined only female flowers and neuter flowers or fruits 

 were found ; perianth 4- or 5 -partite ; ovary smooth ; style short 

 or of moderate length, elongating in fruit, slender, lateral ; achenes 

 about ^ in. long, pale, shining ; stigma black or dusky. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — In mountainous places at the banks of the 

 rivulet Quiapoze near Golungo Alto, sparingly ; female fl. 23 Sept. 

 1854. No. 6390. In primitive forests by streams and in rather dry 

 shady places ; in the virgin forest of Quisuculo, fr. 8 Sept. 1855. 

 No. 6336. In primitive forests in Sobato de Bumba near Quibixe at 

 the river Gate ; female fl. Sept. 1855. No. 6394. By streams in the 

 shady parts of Mata de Quisuculo ; with ripe receptacles. 28 April, 1856. 

 No. 6402. 



Var. bumbana. 



Leaves 1 to 4^ in. long by f to If in. long. 



Golungo Alto. — A shrub, 5 ft. high, very patently branched ; ripe 

 receptacles orange-red, pisiform. In the dense forests of Sobato de 

 Bumba ; fr. July 1856. No. 6403. 



On No. 6336 probably grew the lichens, n. 288, Lecldea exiguella 

 Wain., and also Strigula atrocarpa, S. hypothelia^ S. africana, and 

 A sterothyruni Welwitschii. 



22. F. exasperata Vahl, Enum. PL ii. pp. 197, 402, 409 (1806) ; 

 Miq. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. p. 231, t. 14, fig. C (1848), 

 and Afrik. Vijge-Boom. p. 21 (1849); non Roxb. F. scahra Willd. 

 in Mem. Berol. 1798, p. 102, t. 2 (1801); non Forst. f. (1786), 

 nee Jacq. (1798). 



A tree, 20 to 40 ft. high, patently branched, loosely frondose ; 



