Ficus.] cxxiiic. MORACEiE (Hutchiuson). 113 



densely setose and with a very few scattered bracts disposed here and 

 there over the surface ; peduncle about 1 Hn. h)ng, hispid, with 2 

 or 3 small scattered bracts disposed upon it. Bracts very small, 

 ovate, pubescent. Ostiole large and slightly protruding, with 

 numerous bracts exserted from the mouth ; ostiolar bracts spreading 

 across the orifice, most of them slightly ascending, with their tips 

 intiexed or the outer suberect. all more or less oblong-elliptic, rounded 

 at the apex, membranous. Male and gall flowers in one receptacle, 

 t he former numerous, pedicellate ; perianth-segnu^nts 5 or 6, unequal, 

 oblanceolate-linear, obtuse, membranous, glabrous; anther sohtary ; 

 hlament very short. Female flowers in separate receptacles, 

 pedicellate ; perianth more or less as in the male but more fleshy and 

 not ciliate ; achenes oblique, smooth ; style nearly as long as the 

 achene, slender. Gall flowers pedicellate ; perianth-segments G, 

 oblanceolate-linear, obtuse, minutely ciliate in the upper part, IJ lin. 

 long. Receptacular scales small and hair-like, white.— i^. ptiluJicola, 

 Warb. in Warb. & De Wild. Fie. Fl. Congo, 32, t. xii. ; De Wild, jfitudes 

 Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 236; Th. & Hel. Durand, Syll. Fl. 

 Congol. 507. F. urceolaris, Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 

 201, partly, not of AVelw. 



Nile Land. NiaDiniani : Atoboroo River, Schweinjurth, 2834 ! Uganda : 

 Ruwcn/.ori ; Ycria, Scott Elliot, 77(30 ! Mubuku Valley, 5000 ft., Scott Elliot, 

 7025 ! Kampala, Scott Elliot, 7329 ! 7497 ! east side of Lake Albert Edward, 

 Scott Elliot, 8049 ! Entebbe, Mahon ! Bagshnwe, 708 ! Busiro, JJaire, 

 111 : North Kitontogolo, Ussher, 75 ! Nyanza Basin, Moon, 587 ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Fort Beni, MiUlbracd, 2387 ! 2403 ! 

 west side of Lake Albert Edward, Mildbraed, 1954 ! 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Wau Island in Lake Kivu, Mild- 

 hracd. 1159! Ruanda, Kandt, 137! Lake Mohasi, Mildbraed, 570! 571! 

 Biikoba, Stuhlmann, 1140 ! 1511 ! 3C36 ! 



Mildbraed and Burret have united this species with F. urceolaris, 

 Welw. ; the specimens quoted above differ from that species in the nioro 

 coriaceous, more deeply divided and rougher leaves, and densely setoHC 

 receptacles. 



23. F. variifolia, }Yarh. in Warh. tfc De Wild. Fie. Fl. Congo, 

 30, t. XV. Branches hanging {Schweinfurth) ; branchlets finely 

 longitudinally sulcate. thinly pilose, at length glabrous, reddish- 

 brown when dry. Leaves variable, some quite entire, oblong or 

 (jblong-elliptic, shortly cordate at the base, obtusely caudate- 

 acuminate, 6-8 in. long, 2^—3^ in. broad, others 3-lobed in the upper 

 third, lobes spreading and forming a wide sinus, gradually obtusely 

 acuminate, scabrous and with a few scattered setose hairs on the 

 upper surface, scabrous below aiul pilose only on the midrib and 

 lateral nerves, 5-nerved at the base ; midrib ilat above, prominent 

 below, about J lin. broad at the base, gradually narrowed to tlie 

 a])ex of the leaf ; lateral nerves 9-14 on each side, diverging from the 

 midrib at an angle of about 75°, slightly arcuate, those running into 

 the lol)es slightly more prominent than the others, looped quite close 



