Ficus.] cxxiiic. MORACE.E (Hutchintion). 153 



2 in. in diam., with very thick walls. Basal biact.s 2. connate at the 

 base, semi-orbicular, about 2^ lin. broad, membranous, glabrous. 

 Ostiole not at all prominent, not seen in a complete state, but 

 very probably 2 -lipped ; bracts lanceolate. Male flowers : perianth- 

 segments 4, linear-lanceolate, acute. Stamen solitary ; filament 

 very short. Female perianth 4-partite, as in the male Imt lonj^er ; 

 style elongated, filiform, with a subclavate stigma. — Warb. in Warb. 

 & De Wild. Fie. Fl. Congo, 10, t. xviii. ; Mildhr. & Burret in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xlvi. 237 ; De Wild, m Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 223. F. 

 Staudtii, Warb. ex Mildbr. & Burret, I.e., name only. 



Upper Guinea. Camcroons : Baronibi, Freiisd, 454 ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Lukolcla, Deicerre, 843 ! Kuihi, Stijjin 1 

 Liifuku, Sapin ! Eala, Laurent, 700 ! 717 ! Pi/na/rt, 872 ! 



82. F. pringsheimiana, J. Brau7i d- K. Sc/tum. iti Mitleil. Deutsch. 

 Schutzgeh. ii. 162. Branchlets rather sharply angular, somewhat 

 slender, glabrous. Leaves elliptic or obovate-elliptic, obtusely 

 caudate-acuminate, acumen f-1 in. long, cuneate at the base, 

 3i-6^ in. long, lJ-3 in. broad, entire, rigidly coriaceous, dull and 

 glabrous on both surfaces, yellowish-brown below when dry ; midrib 

 prominent and often slightly keeled below when dry, about 1 lin. 

 broad at the base, gradually tapered to the apex ; lateral nerves 

 8-10 on each side of the midrib, diverging from it at a wide angle 

 (about 75°), prominently looped, the loops forming a crenate intra- 

 marginal nerve about IJ lin. distant from the margin, prominent 

 on the lower surface ; tertiary nerves fairly prominent and flexuous 

 on the lower surface, like the lateral nerves light-coloured ; petiole 

 comparatively short, J-1 in. long, deeply grooved on the upper surface, 

 glabrous ; stipules persistent, lanceolate, subacute, about .1 in. long, 

 more or less membranous, reddish-purple when dry, with narrow 

 hyaline margins. Receptacles axillary, solitary (?), sessile below the 

 basal bracts, obovoid-globose, stipitate at the base, with a very 

 small wart-like ostiolar protuberance at the apex, glabrous ; stipe 

 stout, about 2 lin. long. Basal bracts 2, connate at the base, ovate, 

 obtuse, about IJ lin. broad, thinly chartaceous, glabrous. Ostiole 

 2-lipped, minute, slightly ])rotruding, with no bracts visible from the 

 outside ; orifice i lin. long ; channel very narrow, 3 lin. long ; bracts all 

 descending, rather few, subulate, 1 lin. long, glabrous. Keceptacular 

 wall about 2 lin. thick, soft. Male flowers with a single stamen. 

 Female flowers pedicellate ; perianth-segments 3 or 4, linear, reddish, 

 with hyaline margins, about J lin. long, glabrous ; achene oblong- 

 ellii)S()id, pitted, shining ; style slender, nearly as long as the achene. 



-Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 234. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : without precise locality, lirantt, 142 ! 



Ditfers from F. ri/a(histipiila, Warb., in its more shortly cun«H». I. .v. > .m.l 

 (iessilc receptacles with very small ostiolcs. 



83. F. cyathistipula, Warb. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. J 73. A small 



