Ficus.] cxxiiic. MORACEiE (Hutchiiison). 97 



8429! Rhodesia: Sabi River, Swynncrton, 1002a! Chimbabava River, Lower 

 Buzi River, Sirynnerton, 1002 ! Kalouw, Rogers, 8204 ! 



Occurs also in Egypt, Arabia, and the Comoro Islands. 



There is a good illustration showing the habit of this tree in Karsten and 

 Schenck, Vegetationsbilder, ii. t. 56. 



4. F. mallotocarpa, Warh. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 154. A tree 

 10-30 ft. high or more with the habit of an Alder ; sap watery- viscid 

 rather than milky ; trunk whitish, erect ; branches smooth, spread- 

 ing, glabrous ; branchlets numerous, spreading, softly tomentose 

 towards the tips or sometimes nearly glabrous. Leaves evergreen, 

 ovate or oblong-ovate, rounded, obtuse or shortly acuminate, rounded 

 and often a little unequal-sided at the base, 2|-11 in. long, li-5 in. 

 broad, subchartaceous. coarsely and irregularly obtusely repand- 

 dentate, 3-nerved at the base, slightly pubescent on the nerves and 

 veins or rarely glabrous above, rather densely pubescent with soft 

 spreading hairs below especially on the midrib and lateral nerves, re- 

 maining lateral nerves 5-7 on each side of the midrib, slightly arcuate, 

 diverging from the midrib at an angle of about 45"", looped and 

 branched near the margin, prominent on both surfaces especially 

 below ; tertiary nerves lax, subparallel ; reticulation minute, delicate ; 

 petiole up to 3| in. long, pubescent or almost tomentose ; stipules 

 caducous, ovate-lanceolate, subacutely acuminate, about h in. long, 

 coriaceous, densely adpressed-pubescent outside, glabrous within. 

 Receptacles sometimes on separate crowded panicles borne on the 

 lower part of the trunk, or sometimes on the same tree solitary in 

 the axils of the leaves on the ultimate branchlets, pedunculate, globose, 

 J-] in. in diam., densely and softly villous-tomentose ; peduncle 

 2-4 lin. long, rather stout, tomentose or shortly pubescent. Basal 

 bracts 3, small, rather coriaceous, becoming glabrous. Ostiole 

 inconspicuous, or at length with the bracts considerably projecting, 

 the outer bracts broadly ovate, shortly pubescent, the innermost 

 descending into the. receptacle, linear, obtuse, about 2 lin. long, 

 glabrous. Male flowers with 1-4 stamens. Female flowers with 

 narrow acute membranous perianth-segments. Gall flowers pedi- 

 cellate.— Warb. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 161, t. ix. F. dcthro- 

 phylla, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Fl. Welw. i. 1017 ; Mildbr. & Burret 

 in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 262. F. cafensis, var. guineensis, Hiern, I.e. 

 1016, not of Miq. F. capensis, Mildbr. & Burret, I.e. 195, partly, not 

 of Thunb. F. capensis, var. mallotocarpa, Mildbr. & Burret, I.e. 

 198. F. capensis, var. mallotocarpa, forma pubi/olia, Mildbr. & 

 Burret, I.e. 199. F. kihoschensis, Warb., F. kondeensis, Warb., and 

 F. kivaiensis, W^arb. ex Mildbr. & Burret, I.e. 197-199, names only. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po : Musola, above San Carlos, Mildbrcud, 

 0992 ! 



Nile Land. British East Africa: Nyeri, Grant in Herb. Batti.tr ombe, SIT) ! 



Lower Ouinea. Angola: Gohingo Alto ; various localities, Wclwit^ch, 6'i3r)* 

 C341 ! 6342 ! 6414 ! 6422 ! 



FL. TROP. AFR. VI. SECT. II. TART I. E 



