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acutae, circiter 8 mm. longae, extra glabrae. Receptacula axil- 

 laria, sessilia, ovoideo-globosa, circiter 1 cm. diametro, tenuiter 

 puLescentia vel fere glabra, ostiolo magno umbonata. Bracteae 

 hasales 2, parA^ae, ad receptaculum arete appressae, membranaceae, 

 glabrae. Ostiolum poritorme; bracteae in receptacula descen- 

 dentes, glabrae. Flore.'i 6 breviter pedicellati ; perianthii seg- 

 menta obovata, membrauacea, glabra; stamen solitarium; 

 antbera lata. Flores ? sessiles; stylus achaenio aequilongus, 

 gracilis. Flores insectiferi pedicellati. 



Sierra Leone : near Knkuna, Scarcies River, Scott Elliot 4B93 

 iTory Coast: Lower Cavally Eiver, at Mt. T^TienoIaie, Chevalier 

 19,447; 19,473. Gold Coast: Dinikwa district; Deymase, Chipp 

 151; Scbwbi and Warn districts, Armitage. Cameroons: near 

 Mundame, Buesgen 140. 



F. Dawei, Hutchinson; affinis F. eriohotryoidei, Kfh. et Bche., 

 foiiis ad medium latissimis ellipticis vel oblongo-ellipticis basi 

 rotundatis vel emarginatis differt. 



Ficus Dawei, Uutckinson; nat. size; base of k. 



leaf X 2. 



