Ficus,] cxxiiir. MORACE/E (Hutchinson). 145 



membranous, reddish-purple when dry, longitudinallystriate, glabrous. 

 Receptacles axillary, solitary, pedunculate, shortly stipitate, sub- 

 globose, about f in. in diam., with a very long and somewhat woody 

 beak about -J- in. long, beset with conspicuous warts about A lin. long, 

 strigillose-pubescent ; peduncle J in. long, fairly stout, glabrescent. 

 Basal bracts 2, connate at the base, ovate or ovate-orbicular, about 

 2 J lin. broad, membranous, glabrous or nearly so. Ostiole 2-li])ped, 

 very small ; bracts few, all descending into the receptacle, linear- 

 lanceolate, acute. Male flowers pedicellate ; pedicel stout, 1 lin. 

 long, glabrous ; perianth-segments 3, lanceolate, acute, membranous, 

 about 1 lin. long, glabrous ; anther solitary, with a short filament, 

 ^ lin. long, each cell shortly mucronate at the apex. Gall flowers 

 becoming large. Female flowers pedicellate ; perianth-lobes 3, 

 oblong ; style slender. 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Usambara ; Nquclo, Frau Kvmmfr, 

 2."> ! DvT(mm, Srheffler, 1{)H [ 2U) \ Anmni, Zinimc riti an n,m'S \ 2n:yM Evghr, 

 :i388 ! 8akarc, Engler, 940 ! 



A species with remarkable receptacles, which have a very long woody beak 

 and are covered with prominent warts. 



70. F. praticola, Mildhraed & Hutchinson in Kcw Bulletin, 1915, 325, 

 irith jrj. An epiphytic shrub ; branchlets rather sharply angular, about 

 li lin. in diam., glabrous, covered with a grey smooth bark. Leaves 

 oblong-elliptic, long-acuminate (acumen narrowed to a subobtuse 

 apex, l-lj in. long), obtuse or slightly rounded at the base, 6-7i 

 in. long, 1|-2| in. broad, entire, coriaceous, dull on both surfaces, 

 with a reddish midrib below {Mildhraed), light green above when dry, 

 pale yellow below ; midrib prominent below, sharply keeled in the 

 lower part, about | lin. broad at the base, gradually tapered to the 

 apex of the blade ; lateral nerves about 11 on each side of the midrib, 

 s])reading from it almost at right angles, prominent below, looped 

 about lJ-2 lin. from the margin; tertiary nerves slightly less prominent 

 than the lateral and following their direction, slightly flexuous ; 

 veins scarcely visible above, thick and prominent below ; ])otiole 

 \-\ in. long, rather slender, with a single deep groove on the upper 

 surface, spotted with small black lenticels, glabrous ; stipules 

 persistent, intrapetiolar, encircling the branchlets, narrowly lanceo- 

 late, acutely long-acuminate, f-1 in. long, niembranous. reddish- 

 purple when dry, glabrous. Receptacles axillary, (juite sessile. 

 not stipitate, slightly depressed-globose, with a ])r()tru(ling glabres- 

 cent ostiole, J to nearly J in. in diam., beset with large very prominent 

 tongue-like glabrous warts, strigillo.se-pubescent. Basal bracts 2, 

 connate at the base, closely adpressed to the receptacle, suborbicular. 

 li lin. broad, membranous, glabrous. Ostiole 2-lipped ; orifice 

 about I lin. wide ; bracts not visible from the outside, all descending 

 into the receptacle, linear, membranous, glabrous. Receptacular 

 wall about 1 lin. thick, fleshy. Mah' flowers subsessile : ])erianth- 

 segments 3, ovate-lanceolate, membranous, glabrous, about J lin. 



