116 cxxiiic. HORACES (Hutchinson). [Ficus. 



lateral nerves 12-20 on each side, very distinct and slightly raised 

 on both surfaces, curved, arising from the midrib at an angle of about 

 65° ; veins prominent on both surfaces, sometimes rather lax ; 

 petiole |— 2J in. long, usually rather slender, narrowly channelled 

 on the upper side, glabrous ; stipules deciduous, linear, about 1 in. 

 long, glabrous. Receptacles usually crowded, axillary, mostly in 

 pairs, shortly pedunculate, globose, about J in. in diam., very finely 

 and shortly pubescent or nearly glabrous ; peduncle 1-lJ lin. long, 

 rather slender, densely shortly tomentose. Basal bracts deciduous, 

 very small. Ostiole with about 3 or 4 outer bracts closing the orifice ; 

 outer bracts transversely oblong-elliptic, about f lin. broad ; inner 

 bracts spreading horizontally across the ostiole, the innermost 

 descending slightly into the receptacle. Male flowers sessile, with 

 elliptic perianth^segments and solitary subsessile anther. Female 

 flowers sessile ; perianth-segments 2-3, short, ovate-lanceolate, 

 glabrous ; achene smooth ; style slender. — Pers. Syn. ii. 611 ; Roem. 

 & Schult. Syst. i. 512; Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 783; Warb. in 

 Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 162, partly; Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xlvi. 206, partly. F. indica, Forsk. Fl. ^gypt.-Arab. 179, 

 not of Linn. F. iteoides, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-B<.t. iii. 

 315, name only. Urostigma salicifolium, Miq. in Hook. Lond. 

 Journ. Bot. vi. 556. F. Teloukat, Battand. & Trabut in Bull. Soc. 

 Bot. France, Iviii. 628, 674. 



Nile Land. Eritrea : near Mahio in the Haddas Valley, Schweinfurth, 170 ! 

 central part of Lawa Valley, Schweinfurth, 1691 ! around Keren, Beccari, 39 ! 

 Schweinfurth, 1000 I Abyssinia : Mai Gouagoua, Quartin- Dillon. French 

 Soraaliland : Adal country, H^ricourt, 25 ! British Somaliland : without 

 precise locality, Mrs. Lort-Phillips ! Sudan : Segedi, near Sennar, Kotschy^ 

 257 ! Kordofan ; Jebel Kadugli, Broun, 1340 ! Jebel Daier, Broun, 876 ! 



Var. latifolia, Hutchinson. Leaves 2^-3^ in. broad. 



North Central. Eastern Shari : Ndelle, Chevalier, 6767 ! 



Occurs also in Arabia and Algeria. The Socotran specimens referred to this 

 species by Balfour (Botany of Socotra, 282) are all F. Pre<onoe,3urtt-Davy. 



27. F. Pretorige, Burtt-Davy in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. ii. 365, 

 v'ith figures. A large tree ; branchlets mostly short and twiggy, 

 glabrous and purplish when young, rarely minutely puberulous. 

 Leaves spreading, oblong or oblong-elliptic, rounded at the base, 

 mostly rather abruptly obtusely and shortly acuminate, 2-3J in. 

 long, |--lf in. broad, entire, rigidly coriaceous, often somewhat 

 glaucous below, light-green w^hen dry ; midrib almost equally pro- 

 minent on both surfaces, straw-coloured, |-1 lin. broad at the 

 base, giadually tapered to the apex of the blade ; lateral nerves 

 10-12 on each side of the midrib, equally prominent on both surfaces, 

 spreading at a wide angle, rather slender, looped well within the 

 margin ; tertiary nerves and veins strongly reticulate on both sur- 

 faces ; petiole ^-1 in. long, glabrous ; stipules caducous, those 

 surrounding the terminal bud linear -lanceolate, acutely acuminate, 



