Fims.] cxxiiic. MORACE^ (Hutchinson). 117 



J-J ill. long, purplish, glabrous. Receptacles axillary, crowded 

 towards the ends of the branchlets, shortly pedunculate or subsessile, 

 globose, 3|-4 lin. in diam., spotted, glabrous ; peduncle up to 1 lin. 

 long, terete, glabrous. Basal bracts 3, whorled, ovate-orbicular, 

 about § lin. broad, glabrous. Ostiole only slightly protruded, with 

 3 or 4 broad bracts visible from the outside and spreading across 

 the mouth, glabrous or slightly puberulous ; inner bracts rather 

 fleshy, curved into the receptacle, glabrous. Male flowers sessile ; 

 perianth-segments 3, ovate, obtuse, slightly fleshy, glabrous: anther 

 solitary, sessile. Female flowers subsessile ; achene brightly 

 shining ; style longer than the achene, slender. Gall flowers 

 pedicellate. — F. salicifolia, Balfour. Botany of Socotra, 282 ; 

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

 in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 206, partly ; not of Vahl. F. salicifolia, 

 var. australis, Warb. in Viertelj. Naturforsch. Ges. Zurich, li. 

 139. 



Nile Land. Somaliland : Ahl Mountains, Hildehrandt, 14()0 ! and without 

 precise locality, Drake- Brock m.a7i , 418 ! 427 ! 435 ! 



Mozamb. Dist. Kilimanjaro : Lake Chala, Volkens, 1787 I Portuguese 

 East Africa : Kessano Carcia, Schlechter, 11909 ! 



Occurs also in Socotra and South Africa ; this species is the fajuous • \\'ondei - 

 boom " of Pretoria. 



28. F. Lecardii, Warh. in Warh. & De Wild. Fie. Fl. Cojigo, 24, 

 (. xi. figs. 1-2. A tree ; leafy branchlets terete, softly pubescent 

 when young, at length becoming glabrous or nearly so. Leaves 

 rhomboid-elliptic or ovate-rhomboid, gradually and obtusely 

 acuminate, shortly cuneate at the base, 2J-4J in. long, 1J-2J in. 

 broad, entire, coriaceous, strongly reticulate and slightly shining on 

 both surfaces, glabrous ; midrib slightly more prominent below than 

 above, gradually tapered to the apex ; lateral nerves 9-12 on each 

 side, looped near the margin, the loops forming an irregular semi- 

 circle, like the veins prominent on both surfaces ; petiole 1-2 in. 

 long, very narrowly grooved on the upper side, softly pubescent when 

 young, soon becoming quite glabrous ; stipules very caducous, 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, about ^ in. long, softly pubescent or 

 puberulous outside. Receptacles axillary, in pairs, sessile, globose, 

 shortly mammillate at the apex, about 4 lin. in diam., at first finely 

 whitish-pubescent, at length glabrous, often brown-spotted when 

 di*y. Basal bracts broadly-ovate, rounded at the apex, nearly 

 i lin. long, slightly membranous, glabrous, brown when dry. 

 Ostiolar bracts spreading horizontally across the ostiole, subreniforin, 

 emarginate, membranous, glabrous, the lower oblong, obtuse, A lin. 

 long. Male flowers few, near the ostiolar bracts ; perianth-segments 

 elUptic-obovate, subacute, membranous ; stamen solitary ; filament 

 short and thick ; anther small, with distinct cells. Gall flowers 

 numerous, pedicellate ; perianth-segments 3, lanceolate, subacute, 



