134 cxxiiic. HORACES (Hutchinson). [Ficus. 



in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 1003, not of Miq. F. sterculioides, Warb. in 

 Engl. Jahrb. xx. 175 ; Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 229. 

 F. Dewevrei, Mildbr. & Burret, I.e. 225, partly not of Warb. F. 

 longipedunculata, De Wild, in Fedde, Kepert. xii. 195, and in 

 Bull. Soe. Bot. Belg. lii. 217. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Bipinde, Zenker, 3652 ! between Sangmelima 

 and Ebolowa, Mildbraed, 5560 ! between Ebolowa and Nkomakak, Mildbraed, 

 5822 ! 



Nile Land. Uganda : without precise locality, Scott Elliot, 7515 ! South 

 Buddu, Dawe, 296 ! Kipayo, Diimmer, 713 ! 



Lower Guinea. Spanish Guinea : Nkolentangan, Tessmann, 335 ! 

 Uelleburg, Tessmann, 66 ! 439 ! Angola : Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 6391 ! 

 6392 ! 6393 ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Bomaneh, Laurent, 1352 ! 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 1019 ! Wau 

 Island, in Lake Rivu, Mildbraed, 1157 ! 



52. F. ottonisefolia, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iii. 288. A 

 tree up to 30 ft. high {Chipp) ; stems twiggy {Vogel) ; branchlets 

 smooth, covered with glabrous straw-coloured bark. Leaves oblong 

 or oblong-elliptic, shortly and obtusely or caudately long-acuminate, 

 when long-acuminate then the acumen somewhat oblique (in the 

 dried leaves), rounded or very slightly cuneate at the base, 2J-6 in. 

 long, 1-2J in. broad, thinly chartaceous or almost membranous, 

 glabrous on both surfaces, mostly much darker coloured above, very 

 finely reticulate below ; midrib slightly impressed above, prominent 

 but rather slender below, scarcely | lin. broad at the base, gradually 

 tapered to and almost fading away at the apex ; lateral nerves 

 7-10 on each side, spreading from the midrib at an angle of about 

 65° or almost at right angles, slender, looped, the loops forming a 

 rather deeply crenate line about 1 lin. from the margin ; veins very 

 slender and rather close, not visible above, distinct (but only very 

 slightly raised) below ; petiole |-lf in. long, glabrous, about f lin. 

 thick ; stipules very caducous, present only at the apex of the 

 newly opened shoots, linear-lanceolate, very acutely acuminate, 

 about J in. long, glabrous. Receptacles in axillary pairs, or perhaps 

 sometimes also fasciculate on the older branches, pedunculate, sub- 

 globose when ripe, stipitate at the base when young, at length 

 rounded, J in. or slightly more in diam., very finely rusty-puberulous 

 when young, at length glabrous. Basal bracts soon falling off, 

 connate at the base into a persistent circular plate closely applied 

 to the receptacle. Ostiole small and 2-lipped ; bracts all descending 

 into the receptacle, subacute, glabrous. Male flowers shortly 

 pedicellate ; perianth-segments lanceolate, membranous, glabrous. 

 Stamen solitary. Female flowers subsessile. Gall flowers shortly 

 pedicellate, numerous. — Urostigma ottonicefolium, Miq. in Hook. 

 Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 557. F. Buttneri, Warb. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 

 157 ; Mildbr. & Burret, I.e. xlvi. 224, incl. var. glohicarpa, Warb. 

 F. Gilletii, Warb. in Warb. & De Wild. Fie. Fl. Congo, 19, t. i. 



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