128 cxxiiic. MORACE^ (Hutcliinson) . [Ficus. 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Welle district ; near Poko, Seret, 650 ! 

 Kwango district ; Madibi, Lescrauwaet, 98 ! Limbuta, Laurent, 1355 ! Lake 

 Foa, Sapin ! Bombe, Gentil ! and without precise locality, Body ! 



Described chiefly from living plants in the Brussels Botanic Garden and at 

 Kew ; the receptacles were collected by Sapin. According to Body the leaves 

 are employed in native medicine as a cure for plague. 



42. F. elegans, Miq. m Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iii. 288. A 

 tree about 40 ft. high ; young branchlets rather stiff, leafy towards 

 the apex, very minutely puberulous. Leaves obovate or obovate- 

 elliptic, very shortly and obtusely pointed at the apex, slightly 

 narrowed to a very obtuse base, 3-4J in. long. li-2J in. broad, entire, 

 thinly chartaceous, dull and glabrous on both surfaces, finely dotted 

 above ; midrib flat above, very prominent below, about | lin. broad 

 at the base, gradually tapered to the apex ; lateral nerves about 11 on 

 each side of the midrib, diverging at an angle of about 75°, slender, 

 distinct on both surfaces, slightly raised below, looped about 1 lin. 

 from the margin, the loops forming a distinct crenate intramarginal 

 nerve ; veins very fine, fairly distinct below ; petiole J-1 in. long, 

 about f lin. thick, with a broad channel on the upper side, glabrous, 

 straw-eoloured when dry ; stipules deciduous, not seen. Receptacles 

 fasciculate on the branchlets of a few seasons' growth, 4-5 in a fascicle, 

 pedunculate, globose or ellipsoid-globose, |— 1 in. in diam., shortly 

 pubescent ; peduncle J-1 in. long, |-1 lin. thick, shortly but rather 

 sparingly pubescent. Basal bracts small, connate at the base, soon 

 falling off. Ostiole small and 2 -lipped; bracts all descending into 

 the receptacle, linear-lanceolate, subacute, glabrous. Male flowers 

 shortly pedicellate, with a solitary stamen. Female flowers sub- 

 sessile. Gall flowers long-pedicellate. — Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xlvi. 230. JJrostigma elegans, Miq. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 

 vi. 557, vii. 563, t. xiii. A and in Hook. Niger Fl. 521. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast : Cape Coast Castle, Vogel, 25 ! 87 ! Krobo 

 Plains, Johnson, 559 ! Togo : east of Nyande, Doering, 228 ! Southern 

 Nigeria : common in and around Lagos, Millen, 23 ! Cameroons : North-west 

 Cameroon Compam/s Collector (in Herb. Berlin) ! 



43. F. Buntingii, Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 320. with fig. 

 An epiphyte ; stem 3 ft. in circumference ; young branchlets elongated, 

 tapered to the apex, ribbed, glabrous. Leaves elongate-oblong, 

 gradually and obtusely acuminate, rounded or obtuse at the base, 

 4-6J in. long, 1-1 J in. broad, entire, shining above, dull and glabrous 

 below ; midrib flat above, prominent below, gradually tapered to 

 the apex of the blade ; lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the 

 midrib, diverging from it at an angle of about 75°, arcuate, looped 

 near the margin, prominent below ; tertiary nerves reticulate ; veins 

 forming a close network below ; petiole about J in. long, glabrous, 

 sulcate above ; stipules early caducous, very small, acute. Re- 

 ceptacles borne in fascicles on very short leafless lateral branchlets 



