Ficus.] cxxiiic. MORACEiE (Hutchinson). 105 



X. 5. F. hereroensis, Engl, ex Warb. in Baum, Kunene-Samb. 

 Exped. 219, name only. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia : near St. Louis, Chevalier ! Cold Coast, 

 Evans, ^\ Amansare, C/itpp, 516 ! Togo: various localities, i^er5<tn{7, A 522 ! 

 A 523 ! Doering, 130 ! French Guinea : Porogu^, Zandiela, Chevalier, 692 ! 

 Middle Niger, Chevalier, 216 ! Northern Nigeria : various localities, Dalziel, 

 301 ! 743 ! Dudgeon, 67 ! Cameroons : Musgu, Vogel, 65 ! 



Nile Land. Abyssinia: various localities, AS'cAmj:>€r, 874 ! 1433! Steudner, 

 1362 ! Ellenbeck, 1635 ! Galabat ; near Matamma, Schweijifurth, 543 ! Fazokl, 

 Koischy, 518! Bahr elJebel ; near Bor, Muriel, 111! Jur : Jur (iluittas, 

 Schweinfurth, 135 ! 1775 ! Uganda : Kawali Plateau, Siuhlmavn, 2894 ! 

 Madi, Speke db Grant ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : various localities, Welwitsch, 6353 ! 6374 ! 

 6378 ! 6382 ! 6407 ! 6415 ! Gossweiler, 359 ! 1003 ! Pearson, 2004 ! 2021 ! 

 2217 ! Baum, 86 ! Damaraland ; Haikamchab, Galpin db Pearson, 7552 ! 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Bukoba ; near Itara, Mildbraed, 

 184 ! Portuguese East Africa : near Mazzaro, Kirk ! Mount Maruma, iSwyn- 

 iierton, 616 ! and without precise locality, Peters ! Rhodesia : Uratali, Engkr, 

 3127 ! near Chirinda, Swynnerton, 636 ! hills near the River Lusitu, Swynnerton, 

 636a ! Victoria, Monro, 361 ! Sescheke, Seiner, 54 ! Bechuanaland ; near 

 Toting, Seiner, 205 ! 



Occurs also in the Cape Verde Islands. 



According to Dudgeon this species yields a hard rubber of a reddish colour, 

 exported by the Niger Company. 



13. F. golungensis, Hutcliimon in Keiv Bulletin, 1915, 316. A 

 tree 12-25 ft. high or perhaps taller, sometimes parasitic, exuding 

 a very viscid milky juice ; trunk straight, erect, bare below, hirsute 

 when young ; branches elongated, ascending, hirsute, leafy. Leaves 

 obovate or elliptic-obovate, rounded or slightly pointed at the 

 apex, cordate at the base, 7-11 in. long, 4J-7 in. broad, with 1-7 

 obtuse coarse teeth on each side of the lower rounded part, otherwise 

 entire, somewhat membranous, sparingly pilose above, long-pilose 

 with spreading white hairs below, 7-nerved at the base, remaining 

 lateral nerves 8-9 on each side of the midrib, diverging at an angle of 

 45°, once or twice branched J-IJ in. from the margin, distinct on 

 both surfaces, more prominent below , tertiary nerves rather lax 

 and wavy, prominent below; petiole 1-5 in. long, .stout, hirsute; 

 stipules ovate-lanceolate, very acuminate, J-IJ in. long, bK)od-red- 

 purple, deciduous. Keceptacles not known. — F. sp., Hiern in Cat. 

 Afr. PI. Welw. i. 1016. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Golungo Alto ; forests of Queta MounUirw, 

 ptirasitical on Pseud ospondias microcarpa, Engl., Welwitsch, 6409 ! by the 

 River Cuango, Wehvitsch, 6347 ! 



14. F. senegalensis, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bal. iii. 230. 295. 

 A tree. Leaves oblong-elliptic, deeply cordate at the base, shortly 

 and obtusely pointed at the apex, 9-10 in. long, 4J-5i in. broad, 

 undulately dentate around the base but entire in the 'upper part of 

 the margin, rigidly chartaceous, shortly setulose-pilose on both 



