138 cxxiiic. HORACES (Hutchinson). [Ficus. 



glabrous. Male flowers with a solitary stamen. — De Wild, in Bull. 

 Soc. Bot. Belg. Hi. 223. 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Equateur district ; Eala, Pynaert, 1314 ! 



58. F. mz.QVi\os>di^ Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, \^lb,2>22t. A small 

 tree; branches terete, those bearing the clusters of figs J-| in. in diam., 

 covered with a grey bark marked with large scattered lenticels ; 

 young leafy branchlets fairly slender, glabrous. Leaves oblong or 

 oblong-elliptic, obtusely acuminate, rounded at the base, 2>\-Q\ in. 

 long, 2-2J in. broad, entire, thinly chartaceous, dull and glabrous 

 on both surfaces ; midrib flat above, prominent below, about J lin. 

 broad at the base, gradually tapered to the apex of the leaf-blade ; 

 lateral nerves 6-8 on each side of the midrib, diverging from it at an 

 angle of about 75°, prominent below, looped some distance from the 

 margin, rather slender ; tertiary nerves subparalled to the lateral 

 ones ; veins prominent below, laxly reticulate ; petiole 1 in. long, 

 slender, glabrous ; stipules early caducous, linear-lanceolate, very 

 acutely acuminate, | in. long, subcoriaceous, glabrous. Receptacles 

 fasciculate on the branches of several years' growth, remote from the 

 leaves, 3-5 in a fascicle, pedunculate, narrowly obovoid-ellipsoid, 

 stipitate at the base, J-| in. long, about 5 lin. in diam., glabrous, 

 straw-coloured and spotted when dry, not wrinkled ; stipe 1-1 J lin. 

 long ; peduncles slender, | in. long, twisting and angular, very 

 minutely puberulous. Basal bracts small and caducous, their 

 narrowly connate bases persistent and 1-sided. Ostiole slightly 

 produced, minute, pore-like ; bracts all descending into the 

 receptacle, linear, acute, up to 2 lin. long, with membranous 

 margins. Male flowers with a solitary stamen. Females subsessile, 

 with large papillose stigmas. — F. polybractea, Mildbr. & Burret in 

 Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 225, partly. 



Upper Guinea. Togo : Sokode ; Barariruoba Tambcrna village, Kersting, 

 A. 545 ! 



59. F. kimuenzensis, Warb. in Warb. & De Wild. Fie. Fl. Congo, 

 23. Young branchlets glabrous. Leaves oblong or oblong-elliptic, 

 obtusely acuminate, slightly cordate at the base, 2-3^ in. long, 1 J-2 in. 

 broad, entire, chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces ; midrib flat 

 above, prominent and rounded below, gradually tapered to the apex 

 of the blade ; lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, 

 diverging from it at a wide angle, nearly straight, looped near the 

 margin ; tertiary nerves scarcely less conspicuous than the lateral 

 ones and parallel to them ; veins moderately close below, blackish 

 when dry ; petiole |-1J in. long, black when dry, glabrous ; stipules 

 caducous. Receptacles fasciculate on the old wood, pedunculate, 

 oblong-ellipsoid, flattened at the top, about J in. long, straw-coloured 

 and covered with scattered brown spots when dry, glabrous ; peduncle 



