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ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW. 



BULLETIN 



01" 



MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATIOK 



No. 



[VJlo 



XXXI.— NEW TROPICAL AFRICAN SPECIES OF 



FICUS. 



J. HrTCHISSON. 



The first account of tlie African species of Ficus was published 

 by Miquel in 1849 in a paper entitled "Over de afrikaansche 

 Yijge-Boomen." therein are described, under what are now 

 subgeneric names, 38 species from Tropical and 5 from South 

 Africa, together with a few others from the :Mascarene Islands, 



North East Africa, and the Orient. 



For many years thereafter, the genus Ficus was lett severely 

 alone. The concluding part of De Candolle's Prodromus, pub- 

 lished in 1873, contains only a conspectus by Bureau and a briet 

 account of the literature of the Artocarpaceae. In 188i~J Kmg 

 remedied this defect as regards South-eastern Asia, but did not 



deal with Africa. ' , j m i i 



A large number of African species have been descnbecl by 

 "Warburg during the last few rears, chiefly m J^ngler s 

 Jahrbiicher and in the publications of the Herbarium of tlie 

 Brussels Botanic Garden. But the laborious task o^/ 5^.^^/°^ f 



tlie ^ajLiiuau species A\ai> at it-niiiii kixiklk.^^^^^^^-.: — , 



of the Berlin Herbarium staff and botanical collector o tJie 

 expeditions of the Duke of Mecklenburg through Central Atiica 

 As Mildbraed was unable to finish his account ^^^^^^f j^/^^' 

 departure on a second collecting trip, the work ^^^ascompeted by 



Dr. M. Burret, and was published in Engler's f^l^^^f^fP^^^^a 

 This revision Contained 'descriptions of severa ^^f j;j^^;^^ ;/^^ 

 altogether there were 94 species enumera ed as occurr n in 

 Tropical Africa. The extenSve material collected by Mildbzaed 

 on his first Tournev was included in this account. 

 In working up the genus for the Hora of T|-opical Africa tiie 



abundant matirial |athered ^J ,¥^l^"T^^/.^, ired m' 

 expedition was freely placed at my ^\^P^^^^^^°^VnL tSo^^^ 

 valuable assistance in'its determination^ His Bam ther^^^^^^^^^ 



stands in the present paper as joint authoi ot sucn 

 species as are founded on his specimens. ^, ^ --.p collecting 



In addition to the above, tl^ere l^^^^.b^^fl^^^'SIr of specie! 

 of the genus in the Belgian Congo, .^^^vf -^a llany of^these 

 It is most richly represented m Tropical Alnca. ^an^ 



(3093.) Wt. 153-601. 1,125. 8/15. J.T.&S. G. li 



