132 cxxiiic. HORACES (Hutchinsoii). [Ficus, 



49. F. kisantuensis, Warb. in Warh. cfc De Wild. Fie. Fl. Congo. 



22, t. V. A large tree 50-80 ft. high, containing a thick milk ; head 

 depressed-hemispherical, very broad ; branches spreading, bending 

 sometimes upwards, sometimes downwards ; branchlets leafy 

 towards the apex, curved, ashy-grey, glabrous. Leaves rather 

 scattered, slightly obliquely oblong or oblong-oblanceolate, rounded 

 or very shortly and obtusely acuminate, slightly narrowed or rounded 

 to an obtuse base, 5-7 in. long, \\-'^\ in. broad, entire, chartaceous, 

 glabrous and dull on both surfaces ; midrib flat or slightly impressed 

 above, prominent below, about 1 lin. broad at the base, gradually 

 tapered to the apex ; lateral nerves 16-19 on each side, very slender, 

 distinct above, slightly prominent below, spreading from the midrib 

 at an angle of about 75°, looped, the loops forming a crenate line 

 about 1 lin. from the margin ; tertiary nerves similar to the lateral 

 ones but scarcely so prominent ; veins rather lax, distinct below ; 

 petiole |-1 in. long, stout, about 1\ lin. thick, longitudinally sulcate 

 when dry, glabrous, rather abruptly contracted into the midrib ; 

 stipules caducous, ovate-lanceolate, coriaceous, glabrous. Re- 

 ceptacles fasciculate on the older wood, pedunculate, obovoid, about 

 If in. long, wrinkled like a desiccated plum when dry; peduncle 

 about 1 in. long ; basal bracts in a single whorl, soon falling off. Male 

 flowers with a single stamen. Female flowers numerous, subsessile. — 

 De Wild, l^tudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 236 ; Th. & Hel. Durand, 

 Syll. Fl. Congol. 506 ; Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 229 ; 

 De Wild, in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 214. F. sp., Hiern in Cat. Afr. 

 PI. Welw. i. 1002. F. inkasuensis, Warb. in Warb. & De Wild. Fie. 

 Fl. Congo, 22 ; Th. & Hel. Durand, I.e. F. rectayigula, Warb. ex 

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



Lower Guinea. Spanish Guinea : without precise locaUty, Tessvia)iu, 8a ! 

 Lower Congo : Stanley Pool district ; Kisantu, Gillet, 598 ! Angola : Golungo 

 Alto ; mountainous places of Sobato de Bumba, Wehcit.sch, 6339 ! 6420b. 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Monbuttu ; Bongwa, Schweiyifiirth, 

 3625 ! 3666 ! Upper Aruwimi, Pynaert, 691 ! Inkasu, Laurent ! Eala, 

 Pynaeri, 651 ! 



50. F. artocarpoides, Warh. in Warh. & De Wild. Fie. Fl. Congo, 



23, t. iii. A large tree or epiphyte ; branchlets many-ribbed when 

 dry, minutely puberulous. Leaves oblong or oblong-elliptic, rounded 

 at or very slightly narrowed to an obtuse base, broadly and obtusely 

 apiculate at the apex, 5-6 in. long, 2-2J in. broad, entire, rigidly 

 chartaceous or subcoriaceous, glabrous and dull on both surfaces ; 

 midrib flat above, very prominent below, 1-1|- lin. broad at the base, 

 gradually narrowed to the apex, longitudinally sulcate when dry ; 

 lateral nerves slender, about 12-15 on each side of " the midrib, 

 diverging from it almost at right angles, ^-j in. apart, looped, the 

 loops forming a crenate line 1-1| lin. from the margin ; tertiary nerves 

 slightly less distinct than the lateral ones and parallel with them ; 

 ultimate venation very delicate and obscure ; petiole about IJ in. 



