78 cxxiiic. MORACEiE (Rendle). [Neosloetiopsis. 



IJ lin. long, puberulous as in the male. Ovary with style Ih lin. 

 long ; stigmas 1 J lin. long. 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Usambara ; in deep shade of forest 

 at Mombo, about 2100 ft., Engler, 3263. 



7. NEOSLOETIOPSIS, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. li. 426. 



Flowers dioecious. Male : sepals 4, concave or the two outer 

 hooded. Stamens 4 ; filaments longer than the sepals, free, inflexed 

 in bud ; anthers shortly ovate, dehiscing laterally ; a central rudi- 

 mentary pistillodium is present. Female : sepals 4 (?), closely imbri- 

 cate round the ovary. Ovary ovoid, contracted above into a short 

 columnar style which projects above the perianth and bears a pair 

 of filiform subula'te stigmas ; ovule solitary, pendulous from the apex. 

 Fruit unknown. — A shrub, with slender branchlets which are very 

 minutely hairy when young but soon become glabrous, and bear a 

 thin bark when mature. Leaves shortly petioled, alternate, simple, 

 somewhat stiff and leathery, oblong, acuminate. Stipules caducous. 

 Male flowers borne on both sides of a linear compressed receptacle 

 subtended by orbicular peltate bracts. Female flower solitary on a 

 short receptacle, which is covered with scale-like ovate bracts. 



Species one, endemic. 



Scarcely separable from Sloetiopsis from which it differs in having the male 

 and female flowers on distinct plants and in the reduction of the female 

 inflorescence to a single flower. 



1. N. kamerunensis, Engl. I.e. fig I. A shrub with the habit 

 of a young Mesogyne. or Tryphostemma, with twigs 1 lin. or less in 

 thickness and internodes 1^2 in. long. Leaves 4-4| in. long, IJ-l J 

 in. wide, abruptly acuminate with a bluntish point, 7 lin. long and 

 1 lin. wide ; lateral nerves 6-7 on each side, spreading, uniting within 

 the margin, prominent on the lower surface, venation remotely 

 reticulate, somewhat prominent ; petiole 2-2J lin. long. Stipules 

 somewhat stiff, about equal in length to the petiole, puberulous. 

 Male inflorescence sessile, many-flowered, 7-10 lin. long, lJ-2 lin. 

 thick. Peltate bract about J lin. in diam. ; sepals about J lin. long. 

 Female inflorescence very short ; ovary about 2J lin. long ; style 

 with the 2 arms about 5 lin. long. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Molundu ; forest between Lokomo, Bumba 

 and Bange at about 15° 15' E. long., and 2° 50' N. lat., Mildbraed, 4331. 



8. FICUS, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL iii. 367. 



Flowers monoecious or very rarely dioecious, enclosed in a variously 

 shaped fleshy or somewhat woody receptacle {fi^). Male flower : 

 perianth 2-6-lobed or -partite, lobes or segments imbricate, usually 



