Ficus.] cxxiiic. MORACE.^ (Hutchinson). 119 



forest?, Welivit.sch, G404 ! Zenza do Golungo ; at the River Chiche and among 

 the Mongol© and C'alumguembo Mountains, WelwiLsch, {\^5V) \ (lazengo ; JH)nier3 

 of forests near Cacula, Welwitsch, 0354 ! Pungo Andongo ; near Caghuy and 

 at the River Casalale, Welwitsch, 0304 ! Mossamedes : River Bero, \V(lwit»ch, 

 0370 : ()381 ! Loanda district, Gossweiler, 422 ! Malange district Go-tsweikr, 

 1004 : 1008 ! Bivchner, 548 ! KisoUe, Buchncr, 553 ! Kakulo, Buchncr, 

 5oH ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo : I^ako Tumba, Liiurenl ! 



30. F. cordata, Thunh. Diss. Fie. 8, with fi<iure. Branches 

 somewhat elongated and straight, covered with yellowish-bruwn 

 puberulous grooved bark ; young lateral branchlets short and twiggy, 

 densely and softly tomentose. Leaves ovate-elliptic or oblong- 

 elliptic, rounded or very slightly subcordate at the base, acutely 

 acuminate, 1^-4J in. long, f-2 in. broad, rigidly coriaceous, equally 

 strongly reticulate on both surfaces, glabrous ; midrib continued to 

 the apex of the leaf-blade ; lateral nerves 5-7 on each side of the 

 midrib, looped and much-branched well within the margin, somewhat 

 flexuous, equally prominent on both surfaces ; petiole J-IJ in. long, 

 grooved when dry, glabrous ; stipules caducous, acutely acuminate, 

 softly tomentose. Receptacles axillary, sessile or very shortly 

 ])edunculate, mostly in pairs, slightly depressed-globose, about \ in. 

 in diam., spotted, minutely puberulous. Basal bracts rounded, 

 hairy outside, about one-third as long as the receptacles. Ostiole 

 with 2 or 3 overlapping rounded bracts visible from the outside. 

 Male flowers few, near the ostiolar bracts ; perianth membranous ; 

 stamen solitarv. Female flowers subsessile, numerous. Achene 

 smooth.— Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 33 ; Drcge Zwei Pfl. Docu- 

 mente, 97, 147, 148; Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 207. 

 Urostigma Thunbergii, Miq. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 556. 

 F. glaucophijlla, Desf. Tabl. 209, and Cat. Plant. Hort. Paris, ed. 3, 

 346. F. tristis, Kunth et Bouche, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1846, 19. 

 F. atrovirens, Hort. Berol. ex Mildbr. & Burret, I.e., name only. 

 F. cordata, var. Marlothii, Warb. in Schinz, Viertelj. Naturforsch. 

 Ges. Ziirich, li. 137. 



Lower Guinea. Damaraland : Okahandya, Diriter, 275 ! 

 Occurs also in South Africa. 



31. F. dicranostyla, Mildbr. in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 204. A small 

 tree ; branchlets terete, softly and densely shortly tomentose when 

 young, at length becoming puberulous or nearly glabrous. Leaves 

 elliptic or oblong-elliptic, obtusely or subobtusely caudate-acuminate, 

 rounded at the base, 4J-7 in. long, 2-3 in. broad, acumen about J in. 

 long, entire, thinly and rigidly chartaceous, dull and very iinely 

 scabrous on both surfaces ; midrib flat above, prominent below, 

 about J lin. broad at the base, minutely puberulous on both surfaces ; 

 lateral nerves subopposite, 6-9 on each side of the midrib, di.stinct 

 on both surfaces, more prominent beneath, looped three or four 



