Ficus.] cxxiiic. MORACEiE (Hutchinson). 107 



16. F. capresBfolia, Del. in Ann. Sci. Nat. 2me ser. xx. 94. 

 Branchlets subterete, villous with whitish hairs when young, at 

 length becoming pubescent. Leaves often opposite or subopposite, 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or subtruncate at the base, 

 acute or 3-fid at the apex, otherwise entire, lJ-4 in. long, ^-IJ in. 

 broad, thinly and rigidly chartaceous, scabrous with minute tubercles 

 on both surfaces ; lateral nerves 5-6 on each side of the midrib, 

 distinct on both surfaces, prominent below, arcuate, indistinctly 

 looped near the margin ; venation rather faint ; petiole short, 

 lJ-4 lin. long, pubescent or almost villous, with a pair of stipules 

 at the base of each ; stipules persistent, lanceolate, subacute, J in. 

 long, keeled on the back, finely puberulous on the outside, shortly 

 ciliate, brown when dry. Receptacles axillary, solitary, pedunculate, 

 subglobose, contracted at the base, J-| in. in diam., scabrid-hispidu- 

 lous, without a definite whorl of bracts at the base ; peduncle J-^ in. 

 long, scabrid-hispidulous, bearing 3-4 scattered ovate obtuse 

 coriaceous puberulous bracts about | lin. long. Ostiole broad and 

 gaping, with numerous imbricate bracts visible from the outside ; 

 outer ostiolar bracts broadly triangular, obtuse, finely puberulous 

 on the outside, minutely ciliate, the lower all descending into the 

 receptacle, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, about IJ lin. long, translucent, 

 glabrous. Male flowers numerous, long-pedicellate ; pedicel stout, 

 minutely puberulous ; perianth-segments 4-5, unequal and some 

 connate in the lower part, obtuse or truncate at the apex, 

 membranous, glabrous ; stamen solitary with usually an abortive 

 female flower at its base. Female flowers in separate receptacles, 

 very numerous, sessile ; perianth-segments 6, linear, acute, glabrous. 

 Achene smooth ; style lateral, slender, longer than the achene, 

 with a purple stigma. — Warb. in Warb. & De Wild. Fie. Fl. Congo, 

 36, t. xxii. ; Warb. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 161 ; Engl. Pflanzen- 

 welt Afr. i. i. 118, fig. 100; Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xlvi. 202. F. tridentata, ¥enz\ in Flora, 1844, 311, name only. 

 F. antithetophylla, Steud. ex Miq. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 

 236, t. V. B ; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss; ii.-272. F. pcUustris, Sim. 

 For. Fl. Port. E. Afr. 99, partly, incl. t. xc, fig. C. 



Upper Guinea. Togo : Atakpame, Doering, 321 ! Kara River, mar 

 Kakedjande, Kersting, A 622 ! Northern Nigeria : Nupe, Barter, 879 ! 

 Katagum District, Dalziel, 215 ! Cameroons : Garua, on the River Benue, 

 Ledermann, 3449 ! between Boki and Sandjere Kodjort>, Ledennann, 370<» ! 



Nile Land. Eritrea : near Keren, Beccari, 70 ! Schweinfurth, 785 ! CJalabat : 

 bank of the Atbara River, near Matamma, Schweinfurth, 550 ! between Matanuna 

 and Shendy, Schweinfurth, 742 ! Abyssinia : by the Tacazze River, Schimpir, 

 886 ! 1446 ! Galinier ; on the Morebb River, Schimper, 179 ! Sudan : Fasokl, 

 Prince Paul de Wnrtemberg ! Sennar, Kotschy, 228 ! Cienkowskij, 195 ! Blue 

 Nile ; near Wad el Gaza), Muriel, 20 ! and at Abu Harras. Schweinfurth, 

 546 ! Khartum, Schweinfurth, 764 ! 870 ! Bara, Pfund, 508 ! Fashoda. 

 Baker, 105 ! Niamniam : by the Riv(>r Ibba, Schweinfurth, 3926 ! River 

 Sway, Schweinfurth, 133 ! near Dokkuttu, Schweinfurth, 2755 ! 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Pangani, Stuhlrtuinn, 794 ! near 



