144 cxxiiic. MORACE^ (Hutchinson). [Ficus. 



68. F. crassicosta, Warh. in Warh. & Be Wild. Fie. Fl. Congo, 

 11, t. xvi. fi/js. 5-7. Branchlets rather stout, glabrous, the two-year- 

 old ones prominently marked with large whitish lenticels. Leaves 

 oblong-oblanceolate or narrowly pandurate, very shortly and obtusely 

 acuminate, truncate or sometimes slightly cordate at the base, 

 2J-3J in. long, f-lj in. broad, entire, coriaceous, glabrous and dull 

 on both surfaces, about 9-nerved at the base, remaining lateral 

 nerves 7-9 on each side, arising from the midrib at an angle of 45''-60°, 

 looped, the loops forming a crenate line about f lin. from the margin, 

 distinct above, prominent and straw-coloured below ; tertiary 

 nerves and veins not visible above, fairly prominent and rather lax 

 below ; midrib flat above, prominent below, about 1 lin. broad at 

 the base, gradually fading to the apex ; petiole J— J in. long, glabrous, 

 the bark splitting transversely and peeling off ; stipules subpersistent, 

 lanceolate, acutely long-acuminate, £-1 J^^- long, nearly 2 lin. broad 

 at the base, submembranous, closely longitudinally striate, glabrous. 

 Receptacles solitary, sessile, depressed-globose, about IJ in. in diam., 

 wrinkling when dry, otherwise glabrous. Basal bracts 2, connate 

 at the base, about 2 lin. broad, glabrous. Ostiole small and scarcely 

 prominent, 2-liijped ; mouth about 1 lin. broad ; bracts all descend- 

 ing into the receptacle, lanceolate, subobtuse, membranous, glabrous. 

 Male flowers rather numerous, long-pedicellate ; pedicels up to 

 2h lin. long ; perianth-segments 3, linear, subacute, membranous. 

 Stamen solitary ; filament up to IJ lin. long, red ; anther oblique, 

 1 lin. long, obtuse. Female flowers numerous ; perianth-segments 

 subulate-lanceolate, membranous. Achene smooth, obliquely 

 ellipsoid ; style slender, as long as the ovary ; stigma papillose. — 

 Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 231. F. epiphytica, De Wild, 

 in Fedde, Repert. xii. 195 and in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 208. 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Stanley Pool District ; Lukolela, JJeraeufie, 

 409 I bf*tw(;<ri Eala and Coquilhatville, Laurent, IHl ! 



69. F. rhynchocarpa, Warb. ex Mildbr. & Burret in En/jl. Jahrb. 

 xlvi. 235. A tree with a broad crown ; branchlets covered with 

 glabrous grey bark, subterete or angular when dry. Leaves obovate 

 or obovate-oblanceolate, shortly and obtusely acuminate, attenuated 

 to the base, 4-9 in. long, l|-3 in. broad, entire, coriaceous, dull and 

 glabrous on both surfaces, with prominent pale venation below ; 

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

 gradually tapered to the apex of the blade ; lateral nerves 6-10 

 on each side of the midrib, diverging from it at an angle of 45'^ 

 nearly straight until branched into loops some distance from the 

 margin, prominent below ; tertiary nerves much-brancted, forming 

 with the veins a close prominent reticulation below ; petiole about 

 1 in. long, u.sually very stout, about 1^2 lin. broad, glabrous ; 

 stipules persistent, intrapetiolar, connate at their bases and encircling 

 the stem, ovate-lanceolate, acute or subacute, 1-lJ in. long, 



