126 cxxiiic. HORACES (Hutchinson). [Ficus. 



39. F. Fischeri, Warh. ex Mildhr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 

 227. A tree up to 50 ft. high ; branchlets thick, terete, glabrous. 

 Leaves ovate, slightly attenuated to the apex, slightly and rather 

 widely cordate or rounded at the base, 4-7 in. long, 2f-4J in. broad, 

 entire, thinly chartaceous, glabrous and dull on both surfaces or 

 slightly shining above ; midrib slightly raised above, prominent 

 below, about IJ lin. broad at the base, gradually tapered to the apex 

 of the blade ; lateral nerves numerous, about 16 on each side of the 

 midrib, several radiating from the base of the midrib, the others 

 diverging from it at an angle of 55°, nearly straight, prominently 

 looped near the margin, very slender and slightly prominent on both 

 surfaces ; tertiary nerves laxly reticulate, distinct on both surfaces ; 

 veins very fine and scarcely visible ; petiole lJ-3 in. long, widened 

 towards the base, glabrous ; stipules early deciduous. Receptacles 

 fasciculate on the stem (or perhaps the main branches), pedunculate, 

 broadly ellipsoid-globose, truncate at both ends, with a sunken beak- 

 like ostiole, §-| in. long, f in. in diam., slightly wrinkled and deep 

 straw-coloured when dry, glabrous ; peduncle about J in. long, about 

 I lin. thick, thickened towards the apex, glabrous. Basal bracts early 

 deciduous, their bases connate and expanded into a glabrous plate- 

 like disc closely adpressed to the receptacle. Ostiole 2 -lipped ; 

 bracts all descending into the receptacle. Receptacular wall firm, 

 li_li lin. thick. Male flowers shortly pedicellate ; stamen solitary. 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Kagehi, Fischer,- 545 ! Tabora, 

 Troika, 56 ! Uduhc, near Tabora, Siegcl, 1597 ! and without precise locality, 

 Trotha, 195! Rhodesia: 100 miles north of the Victoria Falls, Kesteven I 

 near Livingstone, Seiner, 16 ! Motata, Jalla ! 



A remarkably distinct species, distinguished among the FasciculatcB by the 

 large ovate leaves, numerous lateral nerves, and pedunculate fasciculate re- 

 ceptacles on the old wood. Mildbraed and Burret (I.e.) were in doubt as to 

 whether the receptacles were pedunculate ; Lord Kesteven's specimen has 

 two, well preserved, with peduncles nearly ^ in. long. 



40. F. brachylepis, Welw. ex Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 1011. 

 A tall or moderate-sized tree, glabrous throughout, very copiously 

 milky, with wide spreading head ; branches spreading ; branchlets 

 dark-coloured in the dried state, sometimes subverticillate by the 

 proximity of the nodes, leafy towards the apex. Leaves oblong, 

 shortly and gradually obtusely acuminate, rounded or truncate at 

 the base, 4-7 in. long, lf-3i in. broad, entire, thinly chartaceous, 

 dull on both surfaces, 7-nerved at the base ; midrib flat above, 

 prominent beneath, about 1 lin. broad at the base, gradually tapered 

 to the apex ; lateral nerves (excluding the basal ones) 8-10 on each 

 side, spreading from the midrib at an angle of 45°-56°, distinct on 

 both surfaces, slender, branched and indistinctly looped near the 

 margin, but forming only a very indistinct intramarginal line ; 

 tertiary nerves slender, very slightly prominent on both sides ; veins 

 very slender, fairly distinct on both surfaces ; petiole |-3J in. long, 



