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minoribus inaequaliter serratis, terminali circiter 3-8 cm. longo 
et 0-8-1 cm. lato, differt. 
Sourn Arrica. Transvaal : Waterberg Dist.; farm Ronde- 
bosch near Potgietersrust, Burtt-Davy 2175 in herb. Bolus 
0. Ficus Bizanae, Hutchinson et Burtt-Davy PMosiasier 
Artocarpeae]; affinis F. politae, Vahl, sed foliis sensim et 
breviter acuminatis basi cuneatis vel subrotundatis, pedunculis 
robustis, receptaculis oblongo-ellipsoideis, ostiolo conspicue mamil- 
lato differt. 
Arbor magna; ramuli hornotini laxe foliati, sicco brunneo- 
purpurascentes, glabri. Folia elliptica vel oblongo-elliptica, 
basi cuneata vel subrotundata, apice breviter et obtuse acuminata, 
8-15 cm. longa, 3-5-7-5 cm. lata, integra, chartacea, glabra, 
infra laxe reticulata, basi trinervia; costa supra leviter impressa, 
infra prominens, basi circiter 2 mm. lata; nervi laterales 
utrinsecus 5—7, a costa sub angulo 45° abeuntes, intra marginem 
conjuncti, infra prominentes; petioli graciles, 2-5-6 cm. longi, 
glabri; stipulae mox caducae, acute triangulares, 4-5 mm. 
longae, glabrae, nitidae. Receptacula fasciculata, in ramulos 
abbreviatos brevissimos ex trunco et ramis principibus ortos 
disposita, pedunculata, oblongo- ellipsoidea, basi breviter et 
abrupte stipitata, apice late et prominenter umbonata, circiter . 
3°5 cm. longa et 2-5 cm. diametro, maculis magnis notata, 
minute rufescenti-puberula; pedunculi demum recurvati, 1-5 em. 
longi, puberuli. Bracteae basales 2, late ovatae, coriaceae, 
persistentes. Ostiolum conspicue elevatum, bilabiatum; bracte- 
olae omnes in receptacula descendentes. Achenia ellipsoideo- 
globosa, nitida. 
Soutu Arrica. Pondoland: Bizana district; rocky banks 
of the Umtamvoona River, overhanging the water, J. Burtt-Davy 
15291. 
This is a very distinct fig allied to F. polita, Vahl, a species 
widely spread in Tropical Africa. It belongs to the section 
Fasciculatae, characterised by the figs being borne on short 
arrested branchlets arising from the trunk or main branches 
remote from the leaves. When the genus Ficus was worked 
out for the Flora Capensis only two species of this section, 
F. sansibarica and F. polita, were known from South Africa, 
the one now described being a third of this otherwise almost 
exclusively Tropical Africa group. 
IV.—NEW ORCHIDS: DECADES XLVIII.-XLIX. 
The novelties described in Decades 48-49 were (with a single 
exception) collected by Sir Everard F. im Thurn, K.C.M.G., 
when Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner of the Western 
Pacific. The majority are natives of the Fiji group, and chiefly 
of the Island of Viti Levu, but the collection contains plants 
obtained in the New Hebrides and Solomon Islands. 
