Ficus.] cxxiii(. MORACE.E (Hutchinson). 115 



caducous, lanceolate, acutely acuminate, about J in. long, finely 

 puberulous or nearly glabrous, closely striate. Receptacles axillary, 

 solitary or in pairs, pedunculate, globose, 3-4J lin. in diani., glabrous 

 or minutely })ubescent towards the ostiole, often reddish-purple when 

 dry ; peduncle 1-3 lin. long, finely puberulous. Basal bracts 3, 

 connate at the base, more or less ovate, obtuse, small, puberulous 

 or nearly glabrous, ciliate. Ostiole slightly prominent, with several 

 broad imbricate puberulous or glabrous bracts visible from the 

 outside, the inner of these spreading horizontally across the orifice. 

 Male flowers sessile ; perianth-segments reddish, for some time 

 enclosing the solitary obtuse anther. Female flowers sessile ; styles 

 lateral, slender, with narrow stigmas. Gall flowers pedicellate. — 

 Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 1004 ; Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xlvi. 205. F. prceruptorufn, Hiern, I.e. F. palustris, Sim, 

 For. Fl. Port. E. Afr. 99, partly, excl. figure. F. angolensisy 

 Warb., F. Buchanani, Warb., F. c/iariensis, Warb., F. ndclknsis, 

 AVarb., ex Mildbr. & Burret, I.e. 206, names only. 



Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria : Nupo, Barter, 1317 ! Kontagora, iii 

 marshes, Dalzicl, 80 ! Cameroons : Korowal Plateau, in brooks, Lrdcryiumn, 

 38<>5 ! Bakari, on the Mao Jerendi River, Ledcmiann, 2270 ! 



North Central. Eastern Shari : Ndelle, Chevalier, 6800 ! 7721 ! 8105! 



Nile Land. Uganda : Entebbe, in swamps, Bagshawe, 768 I Unyoro, 

 Bagshawe, 1561 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Huilla, Antuncj^, 192 ! Monino district, Wei- 

 loitfich, 636() ! 6373 ! 6375 ! Longa River, Baton, 672 ! Baihinilo district, 

 Wrlltyian ! Malange district, Gossweiler, 1006 ! 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Ruanda ; Nyanza .Mountain, 

 Kandt, 18 ! Mohasi Lake, Mildbraed, 478! Nyasaland : Mlolo, Buchanan, 

 125 ! 453 ! near Kankanja, Kirk ! near Zomba, Cameron ! Gazaland : near 

 Chirinda, Sivynnerton, 146b ! Zona River, Swynnerton, 146a ! Rhodesia : 

 Barotseland ; near Sefula, Prosch, 11 ! forest near Salisbury, Flanagan, 3017 ! 

 Portuguese East Africa: Inhambane, Sim, 5414 ! Ngamiland : Botletle River, 

 Seiner, 192 ! 



Var. stipitata, Mildbr. & Burret, I.e. 206. Receptacles contracted at the ba^ic 

 above the basal bracts into a short stipe. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Swamp at Garua, Ledennann, 3417 ! 4958 ! 

 Mfongu, Ledcrmann, 5968 ! 



26. F. salicifolia, VaJih Symh. i. 82, t. xxiii. A tree, sometimes 

 somewhat climbing ; branches covered with light brown bark ; 

 young branchlets usually puberulous, soon becoming glabrous. 

 Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, or rarely oblong, gradually 

 and subacutely acuminate or obtuse at the apex, obtuse, rounded or 

 slightly cordate at the base, 1-6 in. long (rarely up to 9 in. long), 

 \-2 in. broad, entire, firmly chartaceous or subcoriaceous, sometimes 

 purplish, equally reticulate on both surfaces, glabrous and mostly 

 shining on the upper surface, conspicuously verruculose below, often 

 densely so, sometimes glaucous-green when dry, distinctly 2-5-nerved 

 a little above the base ; midrib flat or slight ly raised above, prominent 

 below, about \ lin. broad at the base, gradually tapered to the apex ; 



