Ficus.] cxxiiic. MORACE^ (Hiitchinsoii). 143 



ovate-lanceolate. Stamen solitary ; anther ovoid, obtuse. Female 

 perianth-segments 3, ovate, obtuse. Style rather short ; stigma 

 short, suboblique, papillose. — Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xlvi. 241 ; De Wild, in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 219. F. pandurata, 

 Sander ex Watson in Gard. Chron. 1911, I. 234, figs. 107, 108, not 

 of Hance. F. toqoensis, Warb. ex Mildbr. & Burret, I.e., name only. 

 F. joUijana, A. Cheval. ex De Wild. I.e. 



Upper Guinea. Liberia : Gola ; north bank of Lofa River, Bunting ! Ivory 

 Coast : Keeta, Chevalier, 19351 ! and without precise locality, Jolly, 43 ! 

 Togo : avenue tree at Bismarckburg, Biittner, 713 ! Dahomey, Poisson, 5 ! 

 Cameroons : near Barombi, Preuss, 455 ! 



Lower Guinea. French Gaboon : Libreville, Klaine, 1556 ! and without 

 precise locality, Thollon, 7(33 ! 



Cultivated in most European Botanic Gardens ; fine specimens have been 

 observed at Berlin, Brussels and Kew. 



67. F. sagittifolia, Warh. ex Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xlvi. 241. An epiphyte on the Oil palm ; branchlets stout, glabrous. 

 Leaves elongate-pandurate, subacutely caudate-acuminate, narrowly 

 cordate at the base, 1 ft. or slightly more long, 2J-3 in. broad across 

 the widest part, entire except at the rounded obscurely angular 

 or dentate or occasionally somewhat hastate base, rigidly coriaceous, 

 slightly shining or dull and glabrous on both surfaces, about 5-nerved 

 at the base, remaining lateral nerves about 15 on each side, spreading 

 from the midrib at an angle of slightly more than 45°, prominent 

 on both surfaces, looped, the loops forming an irregular continuous 

 parallel line about IJ lin. from the margin ; tertiary nerves and veins 

 very close and prominent on both surfaces ; midrib very thick at 

 the base on the lower surface, gradually tapered to the apex, narrow 

 above ; petiole stout, j in. long, about 2\ lin. broad, glabrous ; 

 stipules persistent, ovate-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, J to nearly 

 1 in. long, membranous, glabrous, brown when dry. Receptacles in 

 axillary pairs, sessile, globose, about | in. in diam., minutely puberu- 

 lous. Basal bracts 2, ovate, obtuse, keeled, 1^-2 lin. long and broad, 

 very coriaceous, slightly puberulous. Ostiolar bracts numerous, all 

 descending vertically into the receptacle, subulate or subulate- 

 lanceolate, very acute, 1-2 lin. long, reddish in the middle, with 

 membranous hyaline margins. Male flowers few, sessile in the lower 

 part of the receptacle ; perianth-segments 3, lanceolate, subacute, 

 membranous ; anther sessile, solitary, J lin. long, with a very broad 

 and laterally flattened connective. Female flowers sessile, scattered 

 amongst the gall flowers, with a fleshy perianth adherent to the 

 ovary ; style a little longer than the ovary, slender, with a thickened 

 oblong stigma. Gall flowers similar to the female but pedicellate 

 and with a shorter style. 



Upper Guinea. French (Juinea : near Layah. Scotl Elliot. 4(i5(i ! Togo : 

 Lome, Warnccke, 428 ! Dahomey : AUada, Poisson ! 



Formerly eultivat(>d at Berlin under the name F. snhiHindiinrformis. 



