Ficus.] cxxiiic. HORACES (Hutchinson). 127 



about 1 lin. thick at the middle, broader towards the base, slightly 

 grooved when dry ; stipules caducous, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 about 2^ lin. long. Receptacles on the 2-5-year-old branches and also 

 on the trunk, 2 or 3 or even 6 to 8 together, but mostly in fours, 

 pear-shaped, 1-lJ in. long, |-1J in. in diam., green or yellowish, 

 smooth, densely beset with small whitish scarcely elevated spots ; 

 peduncles slightly flattened, |-1 in. long, narrowly sukate, finely 

 puberulous. Basal bracts soon deciduous. Ostiole sunken, 2-lipped, 

 with small bracts. Male flowers not seen. Female flowers with long 

 slender styles. Gall flowers long-pedicellate. — Mildbr. & Burret 

 in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 223 ; De Wild, in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 201. 

 F. Marquesii, Warb. ex Mildbr. & Burret, I.e., name only. 



Lower Oainea. Angola : Golungo Alto ; forests of Quisuculo in Sobate 

 Bango and in vSobato Quilombo, Welwitsch, 6338! «J419b! Lunda-Kassai 

 region : Malangi, Marques, 65 ! between Cammondai and Prototypo, Gossueiler, 

 5066 ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Kapalumba, Sapin ! 



41. F. dryepondtiana, Gentil in Rev. Hort. Belg., 1906, 85, 2vith 

 fig. Stem simple, terete. Leaves spreading or slightly drooping, 

 oblong, gradually or subcaudately acuminate, cordate at the base, 

 9-13 in. long, 3J-4 in. broad, chartaceous, with undulate entire 

 margins, dark green and slightly shining on the upper surface, purple 

 below, minutely puberulous on the midrib and lateral nerves below, 

 otherwise glabrous, 5-nerved at the base, remaining lateral nerves 

 about 7 on each side, subopposite, looped and branched some distance 

 from the margin, prominent below ; veins rather lax, distinct below ; 

 petiole l|-3 in. long, terete except for a shallow groove on the upper 

 surface, glabrous ; stipules persistent, linear from a broad base, 

 very acute, with recurved folded margins, 1-1 J in. long, about J in. 

 broad at the base, dark brown, glabrous. Receptacles fasciculate 

 on short very thick cushion-like branchlets borne on the older leafless 

 branches, about 9 in each fascicle, pedunculate, globose, IJ-IJ in. 

 in diam., covered with greenish -white spots, densely tomentose when 

 quite young, becoming pubescent ; peduncle 4-5 lin. long, rather 

 stout, glabrous or very minutely puberulous ; basal bracts 2, broadly 

 ovate, obtuse, subcoriaceous, about IJ lin. long, puberulous outside. 

 Ostiole inconspicuous, circular, 2-lipped ; bracts all descending into 

 the receptacle, linear-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, 3-3i lin. long, 

 J lin. broad, subcoriaceous, keeled, glabrous. Male flowers not seen. 

 Female flowers shortly pedicellate ; perianth-segments lanceolate, 

 subacute, glabrous. Achene smooth ; style lateral, longer than the 

 achene, with a large fleshy stigma. — Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. 

 Ixvi. 262 ; De Wild, in Fedde, Repert. xii. 303 and in Bull. Soc. Bot. 

 Belg. lii. 205. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Molundu district, Mildbracd, 4388 ! 4430 I 

 4447 ! Buniba, MtUbraed, 4506 ! 



Lower Guinea. Gaboon : Libreville, Klaine, 576 ! 1277 I 



