Ficus] CXVII. HORACES. 1017 



veins patent, very slender ; petioles |- to 2 in. long, glabrous or 

 shortly pubescent ; stipules from a broad base ovate, acuminate, 

 adpressedly hairy on the back, f in. long, deciduous ; receptacles 

 pyriform or somewhat globose or contracted into a neck at 

 the base, a little larger than the fruit of the common Service 

 tree, § to 1 in. long, glossy, red but marked all over with bright 

 green spots, glabrescent or somewhat pulverulent, each containing 

 male female and gall flowers, bracteate at the base, on their 

 own branchlets ; basal bracts small, connate below, forming a 

 trifid base to the receptacle ; ostiole rather prominent, with small 

 obtuse bracts on the margin and at length exposing the almost 

 protruding chaffy bracteoles from the upper part of the receptacle ; 

 fruiting branchlets pendulous, proceeding from the trunk below 

 the leafy branches, racemose-paniculate ; male flowers com- 

 paratively few, each with 2 stamens ; female flowers with the 

 style somewhat lateral near the apex of the ovary. 



GoLUXGO Alto, — Close to the banks of the Delamboa rivulet ; fl. 

 and fr. middle of April 1856, in company with Raphki textiUs Welw. 

 (herb. no. 6671) and Elceis guineensis Jacq. (Welw. herb. no. 6664). 

 No. 6410. No notes. In fl. and fr. No. 6422. 



This variety ought, perhaps, to be kept as a distinct species ; it is 

 probably the species of Ficus, mentioned by Tedlie in BoAvdich, Mission 

 to Ashantee, p. 371 (1819), as one of the medicinal plants of that 

 country, it being there called '• Adumba." 



The following No. possibly belongs here : — 



Island of St. Thomas. — A tree ; trunk straight but little branched ; 

 head widely spreading but sparingly dense ; nerves of the leaves and 

 stipules almost like those in the genus Macaranga (Euphorbiaceai). 

 At the outskirts of the more elevated forests near Monte Caffe' ; 

 without fl. Dec. 1860. Negro name "Bebe." No. 467. 



29. F. clethrophylla Hiern, sp. n. 



A tree, from 10 to 30 ft. high or more; sap rather watery- 

 viscid than milky ; trunk whitish, strictly erect ; branches smooth, 

 spreachng, glabrous ; branchlets numerous, glabrescent except the 

 extremities, spreading ; habit like an alder ; leaves alternate, 

 evergreen, ovate oval or ovate-oblong, obtuse nearly rounded or 

 sub-acuminate at the apex, nearly rounded emarginate or cordate 

 at the base, repand-dentate or ii^regularly toothed except near the 

 base, sub-chartaceous, deep green and with short hairs scattered 

 or chiefly along the midrib and lateral veins or glabrate above, 

 paler and usually with denser hairs beneath, resembling those of 

 ^n alder, 2^ to 10 in. long by 1^ to 5 in. broad, trinerved at the 

 base ; principal lateral veins 5 to 7 on each side of the midrib 

 in addition to the basal nerves, with some shorter intervening 

 ones, anastomosing, all rather slender in relief beneath and 

 narrowly impressed above ; reticulation minute, delicate, with 

 small scales or minute dots in the interspaces ; petioles ranging 

 up to 3J in. long, shortly pubescent or puberidous ; stipules from 

 .a broad base ovate, acuminate, hairy on the back, glabrous 

 within, deciduous, f to f in. long ; receptacles sometimes racemose- 



