Ficus.] cxxiiic. MORACEiE (Hutchinson). 99 



numerous and pointing into the receptacle, somewhat fleshy, glabrous. 

 Male flowers not seen. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 1015 ; Mildbr. 

 & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 193. F. corylifolia, Warb. in Warb. 

 & De Wild. Fie. Fl. Congo, 27, incl. var. glabrescens, Warb. I.e. 28 ; 

 De Wild, in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 203. 



Upper Guinea. Ivory Coast: Bingervillc, Chevalier, 17348! Gold Coast : 

 Prahsu, Cummins, 5 ! Cameroons : Bipinde, Zenker, 1623 ! 3832 ! Johann- 

 Albrechtshohe, B'dsgen, 172 ! V'ictoria, cultivated in the botanic garden, 

 Winkler, 24 ! Molundu ; between Lokomo, Bumba and Bange, Mildbraed, 

 4385! 



Nile Land. Uganda : Usoga, Daive ! Toro, Bayshawe, 1022 ! Buddu, 

 Dawe, 309 ! 



Lower Guinea. St. Thomas Island, Quintas, 167 ! Spanish Guinea, Tess- 

 mann, 13a ! Gaboon, Klaine ! Lower Congo : Kisantu, Gillet, 815 ! 1259 ! 

 1309 ! and without precise locality, Srnith ! Angola : Golungo-Alto ; banks of 

 the River Cuango, Welwitsch, 6389 ! 6416 ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Monbuttu ; Munza, Schweinfurth, 3377 ! 

 3452 ! Kwa Muera, north-west of Fort Beni, Mildhraed, 2325 ! New Antwerp, 

 Seret, 16 ! and without precise locality, Deivivre, 681 ! 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Usambara Mountains ; Amani, 

 Engler, 736 ! Zimmertnann, 64 ! Dar-es -Salaam, Holtz, 2565 ! 



Cultivated specimens seen in the Brussels Botanic Gardens. 



According to Dawe, this is a large spreading tree from which canoe-like troughs 

 used in making banana beer are obtained. 



7. F. sidifolia, Welw. ex Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 1018. 

 A large tree 30-70 ft. high ; trunk li-2| ft. in diam., divided a 

 little above the base into tortuous twisted branches, clothed with a 

 reddish ferruginous bark ; branchlets stout, purplish, glabrescent 

 in their lower parts, densely villous with dark brown hairs in their 

 upper parts. Leaves rounded-ovate, cordate at the base, slightly 

 unequal-sided, shortly acuminate, 3^10 in. long, 2J-8 in. broad, 

 chartaceous, repand crenate-dentate, setose-pilose on both surfaces, 

 more densely so below ; lateral nerves 4-6 on each side of the 

 midrib, diverging from it at an angle of 45°, slender ; petiole lJ-7 in. 

 long, densely hispid ; stipules caducous, broadly ovate, cuspidate, 

 |— J in. long, hispid at the base and on the midrib, otherwise glabrous. 

 Receptacles (according to Wclwitsch) as large as the common fig 

 {F. Carica), smooth when ripe, peach-coloured, paniculately clustered 

 on their own branchlets produced on the trunk and thicker branches. 

 Male flowers with a 3-partite perianth ; segments broad, imbricate 

 and enveloping the two stamens; filaments short. Perianth- 

 segments of the female 3, linear-subulate ; style lateral, rather 

 long.— Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 262; De Wild, in 

 Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 229. 



Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; near Siinge, W ilwttsch, t>421 ! 

 forests of Sobato de Bango and Sobato de Quilombo, Welwituch, 6345 ! near 

 Canguerasange, Wehcilsch, 6348 ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Lukombe, Sapin ! 



