112 cxxiiic. MORACEiE (Hutchinson) . [Ficus. 



at the base, or pinnately 3-5-lobed and then cuneate at the base, 

 2-4 in. long, lJ-2 in. broad, rigidly chartaceous, scabrous on both 

 surfaces ; midrib slightly raised above, prominent beneath, about 

 J lin. broad at the base, gradually tapered to the apex ; lateral 

 nerves 6-8 on each side of the midrib, arcuate, looped very close to 

 the margin, prominent below ; tertiary nerves very lax and branched, 

 distinct below ; veins rather close, impressed above, distinct below ; 

 petiole J-J in. long, thickened towards the base, slightly pubescent ; 

 stipules deciduous, linear-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, 3 lin. long, 

 about 1 lin. broad, finely puberulous on the outside, with a distinct 

 midrib. Keceptacles axillary, solitary or in pairs, pedunculate, 

 globose or obovoid-globose, about 5 lin. in diam., scabrous, with a 

 prominent ostiole ; peduncle i-J in. long, rather slender, puberulous. 

 Bracts scattered on the peduncle, and a very few small ones on the 

 receptacle, broadly ovate, hairy. Ostiole with numerous bracts 

 visible from the outside, spreading horizontally across the orifice, 

 more or less broadly ovate, the outer slightly puberulous, the rest 

 glabrous. Male flowers not seen. Female flowers subsessile ; 

 perianth-segments linear, acute, slightly ciliate ; achene obliquely 

 ellipsoid ; style lateral, slender, with a reddish stigma. — Miq. in 

 Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 564, t. 15, fig. B. ; Mildb. & Burret 

 in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 202 ; De Wild, in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. Hi. 

 200. 



Upper Guinea. Glold Coast : Tano River, Chipp, 342 ! Southern Nigeria : 

 Abo, Vogel, 47 ! Epindo, Foster, 327 ! Northern Nigeria : Nupe, Barter, 

 135 ! Cameroons : Bipinde, Zenker, 1940 ! mouth of the Bange River, Mildhraed, 

 4474 ! forest between Lokomo, Bumba and Bange, Mildbraed, 4420 ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Kamba, Laurent ! Bombata, Allard ! 



A specimen without figs collected by Scott Elliot (5130) near Musaia in the 

 Talla Hills, Sierra Leone, is probably this species. 



22. F. storthophylla, Warh. in Warh. & De Wild. Fie. Fl. 

 Co7}go, 32 . A shrub about 8 ft . high or a small bushy tree ; branchlets 

 terete, scabrid-pubescent. Leaves alternate, obovate-oblanceolate, 

 narrowly caudate-acuminate, 3-6 J in. long, li-2J in. broad, rigidly 

 chartaceous, pinnately and laciniately lobed or repand-dentate, 

 scabrous and dull above, very roughly scabrous and pubescent 

 below ; midrib slightly prominent but very narrow above, much 

 more prominent and broader below, |-j lin. thick at the base, 

 gradually tapered to the apex of the acumen ; lateral nerves about 

 6 on each side of the midrib, diverging from it at an angle of about 

 45°, in the lobed leaves continued to the tips of the lobes, in the 

 toothed leaves faintly looped and branched very close to the margin, 

 prominent and straw-coloured below ; tertiary nerves slender and 

 more or less flexuous, rather lax and prominent below ; veins very 

 slender and lax ; petiole J— J in. long, strigose-pubescent ; stipules 

 early deciduous. Keceptacles axillary, mostly solitary or sometimes 

 paired, shortly pedunculate, globose, about 4J lin. in diam., rather 



