118 cxxiiic. HORACES (Hutchinson). [Ficus. 



1 lin. long, membranous ; ovary stipitate, obovoid, minutely pitted, 

 with a lateral style and large stigma. Female flowers sessile ; 

 perianth as in the gall flowers but shorter ; ovary triquetrous, shining ; 

 style lateral, slender, about half the length of the ovary ; stigma 

 small.— Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 208. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal : without precise locality, Lecarcl, 197 ! Bellamy, 

 407 ! Northern Nigeria : Yola Province on rocky hills, Dalziel, 143 ! 

 Camcroons : Kokumi Hills, on the River Benu, Ledermann, 4756 ! Garua, 

 Ledermann, 3505 ! Lagdo Hills, Ledermann, 4371 ! Tschamba, Ledermann, 5238 ! 



29. F. Welwitschii, Warh. in Engl. JaJirh. xx. 160. A lofty 

 tree up to 130 ft. high, never seen to throw out aerial roots {Wel- 

 ivitsch) ; trunk always straight, moderately thick ; head dense, 

 ovoid-oblong ; branches suberect, repeatedly divided ; young leafy 

 shoots mostly Softly tomentose but sometimes quite glabrous and 

 always becoming so when mature. Leaves ovate or ovate-elliptic, 

 long and acutely caudate-acuminate, cordate or rounded at the 

 base, 2J-6J in. long, IJ-SJ in. broad, entire, rigidly chartaceous or 

 rarely submembranous, glabrous and closely reticulate on both 

 surfaces, sometimes slightly shining, often finely punctate on the 

 lower surface ; midrib slightly more prominent below than above, 

 glabrous ; lateral nerves about 10 on each side, arising from the 

 midrib at an angle of about 65°, looped well within the margin, like 

 the veins prominent on both surfaces ; petiole 1 j-2J in. long, slender, 

 subterete, glabrous ; stipules very caducous, linear, acute, lJ-2 in. 

 long on the newly opened shoots, membranous, pubescent outside 

 on the lower part. Receptacles axillary, sessile, solitary or in pairs, 

 subglobose, obtusely mammillate at the apex, 3-4 lin. in diam., 

 thinly pubescent or nearly glabrous when ripe. Basal bracts 3, 

 imbricate, broadly ovate, rounded at the apex, about IJ lin. long 

 and broad, coriaceous, finely and rather thinly pubescent outside, 

 glabrous within. Outer ostiolar bracts about 3, imbricate, spreading 

 horizontally over the mouth of the ostiole, suborbicular, the remainder 

 also spreading horizontally, ovate or oblong-ovate, rounded or 

 truncate at the apex, membranous. Male flowers several, near the 

 ostiole, subsessile ; perianth-segments 4, obovate-elliptic, rounded 

 at the apex, J lin. long, membranous ; stamen solitary ; filament 

 J lin. long ; anther J lin. long. Gall flowers numerous, scattered 

 amongst the female, pedicellate ; perianth-segments 4-5, oblanceolate, 

 subacute, membranous. Female flowers sessile : perianth more or 

 less as in the gall flowers ; style lateral, subpersistent. — Hiern in 

 Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 998 ; Mildb. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 

 208 ; De Wild, in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 235. F. Welwitschii, var. 

 heroensis, Hiern, I.e. 999. F. Pireiri and F. urophylla, Welw. ex 

 Mildbr. & Burret, I.e. 209, names only. F. malangensis, Warb. ex 

 Mildbr. & Burret, I.e. 209, name only. 



Lower Guinea. Belgian Congo : Lower Congo, Smith, 42 ! Pechuel-Lusche J 

 Angola : Ambriz ; Quiban^-a, Welwitsch, G355 ! Libongo ; in the more elevated 



