Ficus.] cxxiiic. MORACEiE (Hutchinson). Ill 



Cat. Afr. PI. Wehv. i. 1010 ; De Wild. & Durand, Contr. Fl. Congo, 

 i. 54; Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 200, partly. F. 

 serrata, Forsk. Fl. iEgypt.-Arab. 179, not of Linn. F. scabra, VVilld. 

 in Mem. Acad. Berl. 1798, 102, t. 2, not of Forst. f. F. coronata, Spin. 

 Jard. Sebastien, 1809, 10, ex Colla, Hort. Ripul. 56, t. 8. F. f/landv- 

 losa, Hort. ex G. Don in Loud. Hort. Brit. 416, name only. F. 

 aspera, Hort. ex Steud. Nom. ed. 2, i. 636. F. punctifera, Warb. 

 in Warb. & De Wild. Fie. Fl. Congo, i. 35, t. 7 ; De Wild. Miss. 

 Laurent, 71, and J^tudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 236, and in Bull. 

 Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 223. F. silicea, Sim, For. Fl. Port. E. Afr. 102, 

 t. Ixxxvii. F. scabra, Sim, I.e. 102, t. xcv. fig. C. F. cijanescens and 

 F. pijcnophysa, Warb. ex Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 

 201, names only. F. asperifoUa, Chipp, List of Trees, etc., of the 

 Gold Coast, 35, not of ^liq. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia ; Karkaudy, //eu^/c/o/, 803! C'asamanze River, 

 Chevalier ! and without precise locality, Heudelot, (?) 893 ! (quoted hv Micjuej 

 as Bruntier). French Guinea : Konakry, Di/bowski, 4 ! Kindia, Chevalier, 

 12799 ! Sierra Leone : Rotumba Island, Kirk, 22 ! Saniu Country, Scott 

 Elliot, 4212 ! 5350 ! Ivory Coast : Sassandra, Chevalier, 17913 ! Bingerville, 

 Chevalier, 17314 ! Gold Coast : Krepi Plains, Johnson, 533 ! Amokokroni, 

 Chipp, 325 ! and without precise locality, Jsert ! Togo : Sokode, Kersting, 

 53 ! A 501 ! Loma, Kersting ! Warnecke, 348 ! Southern Nigeria : Lagos, 

 Moloney ! Rowland ! Ebute Metta, Millen, 80 ! Bonny River, Kalhrei/er, 

 04 ! Epindo, Foster, 327 ! Cameroons : various localities, Preuss, 1322 ! 

 Deistel, 110a! Reder, 470! Winkler, 204! 732! Biisgen, 00! 100! 373! 

 Zenker, 1591 ! Ledermann, 2471a ! 2875 ! 2900 ! Fernando Po, Mann, 

 190 ! 



Nile Land. Uganda : Busiro, Dawe, 112 ! 



Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Hcnriques, 2 ! Spanish Guinea : 

 Campo, Tessmann, 420 ! Gaboon : Libreville, Klaine, 530 ! Lower Congo : 

 Kisantu, Lazaret \ French Congo: Moyombo, Lecomte [ various localities, 

 Cabra, 17 ! Laurent, 1210 ! Gillet, 230 ! 345 ! 048 ! 1345 ! Angola : Golungo 

 Alto ; Sange, Welwitsch, 0411 ! near Bango, Canguerasange, Canibondo and 

 Tronibeta, Welwitsch, 0387 ! Cazengo, Gossweiler, 4758 ! 4805 ! Musseniba, 

 Pogge, 489 ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Monbuttu ; ^Munza, Schweinjarth, 3503 ! 

 West bank of Lake Albert Edward, Mildbrard, 1903 ! Fort Beni, on thi- 

 Seniliki River, Miklbraed, 2204 ! Dyuma Valley, Gcntil d- Gillet ! Bas<.k<., 

 Laurent ! Lukombe, Sapiti ! Sankuru, Sapin ! Kinsundi, Vandery.st \ Lake 

 Leopold II., Bodji 1 Yunibi, Laurent, 410 ! Djanga, Sertt, 772 ! Ifuta, 

 Laurent ! Sadi, Cabra-Michrl, 31 ! 



Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Kirk ! Cierman East Africa : various localities, 

 Alher.s, 102 ! Etigler, 930a ! 3209 ! Holtz, 751 ! 1233 ! Wornrcb, 447 ! 

 Zimvurmann, 74 ! 913 ! Hoist, 503 ! 2307 ! Stolz, 72 ! Portuguesi- East 

 Africa : Quisico, Sim, 5381 ! Inharreine, Sim, 52'.R> ! Xliauincurra. .S///», 

 5(544 ! 



Used in many parts of Africa as a substitute ftir emery j)api'r. 



Occurs also in Arabia. 



21. F. asperifolia, Miq. in Hook. Nii/cr Fl. r>21. A .sluul) alxmt 

 8 ft. high; branchlets somewhat slender, ])ubestent. Leaves 

 variable {Barter), nearly entire and then ()bl()ng-ellii)tic, toothed, 

 shortly acuminate at the apex, rounded and slightly unequal-sided 



