152 cxxiiif. MORACE.E (Hutchinson). [Ficus. 



80. F. Winkleri, Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrh. xlvi. 236, 

 partly. A tree ; branchlets about J in. in diam. near the apex, 

 glabrous. Leaves obovate-elliptic, caudate-acuminate and in one 

 leaf seen with a large obtuse tooth near the acumen, narrowed to or 

 slightly rounded at the base, 7-9 in. long, 2^-3^ in. broad, coriaceous, 

 glabrous and dull on both surfaces, brown below, with thick pale- 

 coloured nerves and venation ; midrib very prominent below, about 

 1| lin. broad at the base, gradually narrowed to the apex of the 

 acumen ; lateral nerves 7-8 on each side of the midrib, diverging 

 from it at an angle of 45° or slightly more, the lower subopposite. 

 prominently looped about 2 lin. from the margin ; tertiary nerves 

 lax and much-branched, forming with the veins a rather close 

 nervation very conspicuous below, but not visible above ; acumen 

 narrow, subacute, 1 in. long; petiole stoat, |-1 in. long, IJ lin. 

 thick, glabrous, covered with a thin brown deciduous epidermis ; 

 stipules intrapetiolar, clasping the stem, much broken in the speci- 

 men seen but probably mostly lanceolate, acutely acuminate, about 

 I in. long, membranous, striate, glabrous. Receptacles axillary, 

 solitary (?j, sessile, not stipitate, depressed-globose, with a small 

 shortly protruding ostiole at the apex, a little over | in. in diam., 

 strigillose-pubescent, reticulately wrinkled when dry. Basal bracts 

 not seen complete, but evidently 2 and closely adpressed to the base 

 of the receptacle, membranous and glabrous. Ostiole 2 -lipped, 

 with no bracts visible from the outside ; channel about J lin. wide 

 and IJ lin. long; bracts descending into the receptacle, ovate- 

 subulate, glabrous. Perfect flowers not seen. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Victoria, forest near the Botanical garden, 

 Winkler, 1204 ! 



Chevalier's plant (J 2989) from French (iuinca, which was included in this 

 species by Mildbraed and Burret, represents quite a distinct species, F. tesselata, 

 Warb., with much more shortly and obtusely acuminate leaves and larger tigs 

 with very long beaks. 



81. F. Preussii, Warb. in Engl. Jahrh. xx. 156. Branchlets 

 sulcate when dry, covered with greyish glabrous bark. Leaves not 

 crowded, large, slightly obliquely oblong or oblong-oblanceolate, 

 shortly and obtusely acuminate, rounded at the base, 9-11 in. long, 

 2|-3J in. broad, entire, chartaceous, glabrous, closely reticulate 

 below ; midrib slightly immersed above, prominent and rather 

 broad below ; lateral nerves 6-7 on each side, spreading from the 

 midrib at an angle of about 45°, looped, the loops forming an irregular 

 line 2-3 hn. from the margin ; veins forming a close distinct network 

 below, not visible above ; petiole 1-1| in. long, aboiifl^ lin. thick, 

 deeply and narrowly sulcate when dry, with deciduous epidermis ; 

 stipules persistent or subpersistent, ovate-lanceolate, acute or 

 subacute, about f in. long and 4 lin. broad, submembranous, glabrous, 

 faintly striate. Receptacles supra-axillary, sessile, subglobose. 



