Ficus] CXVIl. MORACE^. ]019 



side in addition to the basal nerves, spreading-ascending, rather 

 slender ; petioles more or less hispid, stiff, If to 7 in. long ; 

 stipules broadly ovate, cuspidate, hispid at the base and along 

 the midrib, otherwise glabrate, f to ^ in. long, caducous ; 

 receptacles (according to Welwitsch's ms.) as large as a moderate- 

 sized fig (cf. F. Carica L.), somewhat smooth when ripe, 

 peach-coloured reddish, agreeably aromatic, soft, almost edible, 

 scarcely sweet, paniculately clustered on their own branchlets 

 which proceed from the trunk and thicker branches ; numerous 

 gall- flowers, several female (perhaps abortive) flowers, and near 

 the apex a few male flowers present in the same receptacle ; 

 perianth of the male flowers tripartite, the segments broad 

 imbricate and enveloping the two stamens ; filaments short ; 

 anthers y^g in. long ; perianth of the female flowers with three 

 linear-subulate segments ; style lateral, from the top of the ovary, 

 rather long. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — At the outskirts of primitive forests near Sange, 

 by the Bango road ; Jan. 1856. No. 6407- No notes. Without 

 receptacles. No. 6421. A small tree of 6 to 8 ft., perhaps not fully 

 grown ; sap watery-viscid ; habit of foliage like a SUIa or Ahutilon ; 

 petioles ranging up to 3| in. long. At the bushy margins of forests in 

 Sobato de Bango and Sobato de Quilombo, rather sparingly ; without 

 receptacles, Dec. 1854. No. 6345. Leaves very scabrous above ; 

 petioles | to 3 in. long. By a rivulet in the valley on the northern 

 tract of the Cimeterio near Canguerasange : without receptacles, Oct. 

 1854. Perhaps a different species. No. 6348. Receptacle ovoid- or 

 clavate-pyriform, cinnabar-red, juicy, papillose-puberulous outside, 

 1;^ in. long by | in. thick, shortly bracteate at the base ; ostiole 

 prominent. At Sange; fr. Feb. 1856. Coll. Carp. 898. 



The following No. possibly belongs here : — 



Island of St. Thomas, — A handsome tree ; trunk about 6 ft. in 

 diameter, 25 to 40 ft. high, used for making the negro canoes or small 

 boats ; wood smooth, whitish ; branches tortuously spreading ; head 

 broadly ovoid or hemispherical. In the more elevated forests of the 

 island ; without receptacles, Dec. 1860. Called by the inhabitants 

 " Figo porro." No. 6406. 



5. BOSaUEIA Dup.-Th. ex Baill. Adansonia iii. p. 338, t. 10 

 (1863) ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 370 (Bosquiea). 



Centrogy7ie Welw. ex Benth. &, Hook, f.. I.e. 



1. B. angolensis Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 271 (1884). 



Centrogyne angolensis Welw., I.e. B. Welwitschii Engl. Mon. 

 Morac. African, p. 36 (1898). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A tree, usually 25 to 50 ft. high (a specimen seen 

 near the cataracts of the river Cuango was certainly more than 60 ft. 

 high, with the trunk quite bare of branches up to nearly half its 

 height), sometimes lower ; head loosely pyramidal ; trunk when old 

 bare below, divaricately branched and frondose above ; branches and 

 branchlets spreading or very patent ; branchlets ashy or dusky purple, 

 smooth ; young parts herbaceous-green or the buds dusky purple ; old 

 parts exuding a resinous bitter somewhat caustic and aromatic milk 

 which at first is whitish but quickly coagulates into a rubicund some- 



