Ficus.'] cxxiiic. MORACE^ (Hiitchinson). 121 



margin. Ostiole closed with transverse bracts ; outer bracts hori- 

 zontal, siiborbicular, about 1 lin. broad, minutely puberulous, 

 inner bracts gradually descending into the receptacle, a little more 

 fleshy than the outer ones. Male flowers shortly pedicellate, with 

 membranous perianth-segments and a solitary stamen. Female 

 flowers sessile ; perianth-segments membranous ; style lateral, 

 slender. Gall flowers pedicellate. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Bipinde, Zenker^ 1562 ! 



33. F. ingens, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Luf/d.-Bat. iii. 288. A tree or 

 shrub ; young branchlets stout, with dull grey bark. Leaves ovate 

 or oblong-ovate, rounded at the apex, deeply cordate or rounded- 

 truncate at the base, 3J-6 in. long, 2^-4 in. broad, entire, chartacecjus, 

 glabrous, slightly shining above, finely warted between the veins 

 below, finely reticulate on both surfaces, light glaucous-green when 

 dry ; midrib flat above, prominent below, about J lin. broad at the 

 base, gradually tapered to the apex ; lateral nerves 8-9 on each 

 side of the midrib, nearly equally prominent on both surfaces, 

 diverging from the midrib at a very wide angle, prominently bifurcate 

 J-| in. from the margin ; tertiary nerves lax and reticulate, very 

 slender like the veins ; petiole 1-lJ in. long, sulcate, glabrous ; 

 stipules deciduous, not seen. Receptacles axillary, mostly in pairs, 

 shortly pedunculate, globose, rounded at the base, 4-5 lin. in diam., 

 warted when dry, glabrous or slightly pubescent ; peduncle 1-3 lin. 

 long or shorter, stout, very slightly puberulous. Basal bracts 2, 

 ovate, rounded at the apex, subpersistent, coriaceous. Ostiole closed 

 with about 3 visible imbricate bracts spreading horizontally across it, 

 not conspicuous. Male flowers subsessile, with a solitary stamen. 

 Female flowers sessile ; ovary smooth ; style slender. Gall flowers 

 pedicellate. — Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 191 ; Warb. in Engl. 

 Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 161. Urostigma ingens, Miq. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 

 Bot. vi. 554. U. xantho'phyllum , Miq. in Hook. I.e. V . caffrum, 

 Miq. Afr. Vijge-Boom. 31. U. xanthophyllufn, var. ovatocordatum, 

 ISond. in Linna}a, xxiii. 136. F. scJmnperiana, Hochst. ex A. Rich. 

 Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 266, and in Ferr. & Galin. Voy. Abyss. Atlas. 

 Bot. t. ii. F. xanthophTjUa, Steud. ex Miq. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 

 Bot. vi. 554. F. caffra, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iii. 288. F. 

 pondoensis, Warb. in Viertelj. Naturforsch. Ges. Zurich, Ii. 14<). 

 F. magfnjensis, Sim, For. Fl. Port. E. Afr. 99, t. xciii. fig. B. F. 

 cordata, Sim. I.e. 99, not of Thunb. F. luteu, Mildbr. & Burret 

 in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 209, not of Vahl. F. Albersii, Warl). ex 

 Mildbr. & Burret, I.e. 210, name only. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal : Casanianzo River ; Maiipalago, Chetnlier ! 

 (iokl Coast, Ernns, 3 ! Togo : near Tabalo, Kerstirig, 4'M ! Ba-*<ari, KfrMing, 

 401 ! Northern Nigeria: Badegi, Lattif), 45! near Zarin, ]MV\h \ Southern 

 Nigeria: Lagos, Foster, 25! Cameroons: Garua ; hills s<ivith of the Henuc. 

 Ledermann,M12\ 3479! Dodo, Zerferw^ujj, 2995 I 



