no cxxiiic. HORACES (Hutchinson). [Ficus. 



1010. F. colpopJiTjlla, Warb. in Warb. & De Wild. Fie. Fl. Congo, 

 31. F. scolopophora, Warb. I.e. 33. F. xipJiophora, Warb. I.e. 34, 

 t. ix. and x. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Lomie ; near the River Jah, Mildbraed, 

 5405 ! Molundu ; Old French frontier, Mildhraed, 4785 ! near Victoria, 

 ]S inkier, 449 ! Fernando Po : Musola, upper part of San Carlos, Mildhraed, 

 7U](>! Bokoko, Mildhraed, 6900! 



North Central. Shari district : Ndelle, Chevalier, 7932 ! 



Nile Land. Niamniam ; on the Nabambisso river, Schiveinfurth, 2999 ! 

 British East Africa: Nyanza Basin; Malama's, Battiscombe, 680! Uganda: 

 Buddu, Scott Elliot, 7436 ! 



Lower Guinea. Gaboon : Munda ; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 222 ! Belgian 

 Congo : Kinsuka, Vanderyst ! Kisantu, Gillef, 169 ! 433 ! 1294 ! Imese, 

 Laurent ! Angola : Golungo Alto ; mostly near streams in various localities, 

 \Velwit.^ch, 6336 ! 6390 ! 6394 ! 6402 ! 6403 ! Cazengo district, Gossweiler, 

 703 ! 4438 ! 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa ; Walegga district, Stuhlmann, 

 2922 1 Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 982 ! 1594 ! 



Described partly from living plants in the Brussels Botanic Gardens, kindly 

 placed at my disposal for study by Dr. E. De Wildeman. 



20. F. exasperata, VaJil, Enum. ii. 197. A tree up to 70 ft. 

 hioli, with spreading branches and soft grey smooth bark ; sap 

 watery, viscid ; branchlets twiggy, slender, scabrid-pubescent. 

 Leaves elliptic or obovate-elliptic or rarely suborbicular, rounded 

 or slightly cuneate at the base, up to 5-| in. long, IJ— 4 in. broad, 

 finely denticulate, rarely crenate or 3-lobed, chartaceous, very 

 scabrous on both surfaces ; midrib prominent below ; lateral nerves 

 3-5 on each side of the midrib, the lowermost pair ascending to the 

 middle or beyond the middle of the blade, with numerous looped 

 side-nerves connecting it with the margin ; tertiary nerves numerous 

 subparallel, prominent, spreading at right angles across the blade ; 

 petiole J— 1 in. long, scabrous ; stipules early deciduous. Receptacles 

 axillary on the young shoots or towards their base, solitary or in 

 pairs, pedunculate, obovoid or subglobose, up to J in. in diam., 

 roughly scabrous ; peduncles 1-3J lin. long, densely scabrous, 

 with the basal bracts scattered along it and also sometimes here and 

 there on the receptacle ; bracts ovate, obtuse, small, sometimes 

 all towards the base of the peduncles but never arranged in a regular 

 whorl. Ostiole slightly prominent, with numerous imbricate bracts 

 spreading across the mouth and visible from the outside ; ostiolar 

 bracts subequal, the lower curving into the receptacle, linear-oblong, 

 obtuse, membranous and translucent, 1-nerved, very finely ciliate 

 around the upper part, otherwise glabrous. Male flowers few, 

 subsessile ; perianth-segments 4-6, linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, 

 I lin. long, membranous, pubescent in the upper part. Stamen 

 solitary, sessile, about J lin. long. Female flowers shortly pedicellate ; 

 perianth-segments similar to the male ; ovary smooth ; style 

 lateral, about as long as the ovary, 2-fid. — Miq. in Hook. Lond. 

 Journ. Bot. vii. 231, t. 14, fig. C; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 161; Hiern in 



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