94 cxxiiic. MORACEiE (Hutchinson). [Ficus. 



long, puberulous ; stipules deciduous, lanceolate, acute, 4-5 lin. long, 

 adpressed-pubescent outside. Keceptacles axillary or from the 

 axils of fallen leaves on shoots of two seasons' growth, solitary, 

 pedunculate, subglobose or pyriform, umbonate, stipitate, |-J in. 

 long, about J in. in diam., puberulous or slightly scabrous ; peduncle 

 2-4 lin. long, pubescent ; basal bracts 3, inserted at the same level, 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, subacute, IJ-IJ lin. long, minutely 

 puberulous outside, glabrous and shining within. Ostiolar bracts 

 numerous, the outer slightly ascending, the intermediate spreading 

 horizontally across the ostiole, the lowermost slightly curved towards 

 the base of the receptacle. Male flowers rather numerous in the upper 

 third of the receptacle and a few scattered amongst the female, 

 pedicellate ; pedicels compressed, 1-lJ lin. long, minutely puberu-* 

 lous ; perianth-segments 4-6, linear-lanceolate, subacute, mem- 

 branous, glabrous ; stamens 3-4 ; filaments short ; anthers oblong, 

 about J lin. long. Gall flowers with pedicels like those of the male ; 

 perianth-segments 5-6, linear-subulate, acute, scarcely 1 lin. long, 

 membranous. Female flowers sessile ; ovary smooth, with a slightly 

 lateral stigma. — Vahl, Symb. i. 84, t. 24 ; Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. 

 iii. 290 and in Hook. Lond. Jom-n. Bot. vii. 225 ; King in Ann. Bot. 

 Gard. Calcutta, i. 146, t. 185 and in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 530 ; 

 Brandis, Indian Trees, 607 ; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. 

 ii. 123 ; Mildbr. & Bmret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 189, partly. F. 

 caricoides, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 529 ; Miq. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 

 I.e. 224. F. virgata, Roxb. I.e. 530 : AVight Ic. t. 649 ; Miq. in Ann. 

 Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iii. 290 and Lin. Afr. Vijge-Boom. 20 ; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, iv. 1155 ; Brandis, For. Fl. Ind. 419. F. Pseudo-Sycamorus, 

 Decne in Ann. Sc. Nat. 2me ser. ii. 242 ; Miq. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 

 Bot. vi. 227 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 1155. F. Pseudo-Carica, Miq. 

 in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 225 ; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 

 271. F. Pseudo-Carica, var. toineniosa, A. Rich. 1. c. 271 . F, petitiana, 

 A. Rich. I.e. F. Rohecchii, Warb. ex Mildbr. & Burret, I.e., 190, 

 name only. 



Nile Land. Eritrea : Saganciti ; Marakhat Valley, Schweinfurth <f? Biva, 

 1674 ! Gelcb, Schiveinfurth, 1024 ! 1106 ! AddiConzi, near Acrour, Schweinfurth 

 ct' Biva, 1152 ! Abyssinia : near Adowa, Schimper, 157 ! Steudner, 1363 ! Amba- 

 Sea, Schrmper, 287 ! 591 ! Serraba, Schimper, 1099 ! Aman, Schimper, 1440 ! 

 Wojerat, Petit, 87 ! Ababa, JSteudner ! and without precise locality, Courhon ! 

 Somaliland : Hararmaja Lake, EUenheck, 478a ! Bobecchi Briccauelti, 161 ! 

 Maid, HiUlehrandt, 1462 ! 



Occurs also in Egypt, Arabia and Northern India. 



Very variable in the shape of the leaves and in their indumentum ; in Ellen- 

 beck's and Briccquetti's specimens, from Somaliland, the leaves are quite 

 silky- tomentose below, becoming at length pubescent. 



2. F. vogeliana, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iii. 295. A tree 

 30-50 ft. high ; young branchlets leafy towards the apex, strigose- 

 hirsute. Leaves obovate or obovate-elliptic, shortly and subacutely 



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