98 cxxiiic. HORACES (Hutchinson) . [Ficus. 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro ; Kiboso, Allimud, 206 ! 

 Vol kens, 1582 ! 1584 ! Marangu, Volkens, 2073 ! between Mem and Aruscha, 

 Ulilig, 692 ! Ugueno Mountains, Volkens, 465 ! Nager Nyavatura, on the Kagera 

 River, Mildbraed, 312 ! Usambara ; Kwarakuyo, Braun, 984 ! Usaramo ; 

 Jegea, Stuhlmann, 8630 ! Uluguru Mountains, Stuhlmann, 8981 ! Lindi ; 

 Mchomanjoma, Koerner, 2296 ! Kondeland, Umuamba, Goetze, 1307 ! Rhodesia : 

 Victoria Falls; rain forest, Engler, 2955 \ 2911a! Bulawayo, ZoK^e, 4079 ! 

 Transvaal : Limpopo Valley ; Umkiva, Hutchins, 14 ! 



Ellenheck, 1634, from Schoa, Somaliland, included by Mildbraed and Burret 

 under F. Sur, seems to belong to F. mallotocarpa ; the young figs are densely 

 and softly tomentose. 



5. F. gongoensis, Be Wild, in Fedde, Repert. xii. 196. A tree ; 

 young branchlets more or less terete, with deciduous bark. Leaves 

 elliptic or obovate, narrowly acuminate, rounded or cordate at the 

 base, 3J-8 in. ]ong, 2-4 J in. broad, glabrous, distinctly 3-nerved at 

 the base, remaining lateral nerves 6-7 on each side, slightly impressed 

 above, prominent below. Receptacles arranged in panicles up to 

 24 in. long, globose or pear-shaped, more or less stipitate, up to J in. 

 long and 5 lin. broad, densely velvety hirsute, mammillate at the 

 apex, with a bracteate ostiole ; peduncle up to nearly J in. loiig, 

 velvety with spreading hairs. Basal bracts connate into a 2-3- 

 lobulate disc. Flowers more or less as in F. mallotocarpa. — De 

 AVild. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 211. 



South Central. Belgian Congo : territory of the Gongo chief, Seret, 314 ! 



6. F. Mucuso, Wehv. ex Ficalho, PI. Uteis, 270. A small tree, 

 10-12 ft. high, or in some localities a large spreading tree ; branchlets 

 covered with a brown scaly bark ; young branchlets villous near 

 the leaf-bases with reddish hairs. Leaves few and usually confined 

 to the tips of the branchlets, suborbicular, cordate at the base, 

 shortly and rather abruptly acuminate, 2-6 in. in diam., entire or 

 with slightly undulate margins, subchartaceous, slightly scabrous 

 on both surfaces, puberulous below and scattered-pilose on the 

 midrib and lateral nerves, rarely softly pubescent below ; midrib 

 prominent below, gradually tapered to the apex of the blade ; lateral 

 nerves about 5 on each side of the midrib, diverging from it at an angle 

 of about 45°, the basal pair with several lateral nerves radiating to the 

 margin on their lower side, the remainder often branched near the 

 margin ; tertiary nerves prominent below, parallel, 1-1 J lin. apart ; 

 veins forming a close delicate reticulation below ; petiole l-lj in. 

 long, shortly tomentose and sparingly long-pilose ; stipules deciduous, 

 those enclosing the terminal bud ovate, acutely acuminate, about 

 J in. long, setose- villous with rust-coloured hairs outside. Receptacles 

 pear-shaped or slightly club-shaped, paniculate on the stronger mam 

 branches, pedunculate, obovoid or subglobose, variable in size, up 

 to 2J in. indiam., very finely puberulous, smooth ; peduncle about 

 J in. long. Basal bracts 3, whorled, subcoriaceous. Ostiole promi- 

 nent, with several bracts exserted from the mouth, the other bracts 



