154 cxxiiic. MORACEiE (Hutchinson) [Ficus. 



tree 12-20 ft. high, very much branched, evergreen ; trunk and 

 branches with sparing or copious milky sap ; branchlets spreading, 

 angular, glabrous, according to Welwitsch pendulous after the 

 habit of Salix bahylonica, Linn., densely clothed with the persistent 

 stipules. Leaves alternate, oblanceolate or elUptic-oblanceolate, 

 shortly and obtusely acuminate, mostly rather long-attenuated to 

 the base, 2f-5J in. long, 1^-2 in. broad, entire, rigidly coriaceous, 

 dull on both surfaces, distinctly reticulate below but not so above, 

 glabrous ; midrib slightly immersed above, very prominent below, 

 nearly 1 J lin. broad at the base, smooth ; lateral nerves 5-7 on 

 each side, scarcely visible above, prominent below, looped, the loops 

 forming ah irregular line 1^2 lin. from the margin ; veins forming a 

 distinct network below giving the surface a spotted appearance 

 in the dried -state ; petiole ^ in. long, glabrous, the epidermis 

 at length splitting transversely and falling away in pieces ; stipules 

 persistent, imbricate, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or sub- 

 acute, J-| in, long, up to 4 lin. broad, reddish, submembranous. 

 Keceptacles axillary, solitary or in pairs, pedunculate, very shortly 

 stipitate within the basal bracts, ellipsoid, umbonate, nearly IJ in. 

 long and a little more than | in. in diam., very thinly puberulous 

 outside ; peduncle f in. long, sulcate, puberulous ; stipe nearly 

 2 lin. long. Basal bracts 2, ovate, rounded at the apex, membranous, 

 glabrous. Ostiole small and pore-like ; bracts all descending into 

 the interior of the receptacle, glabrous. Male flowers with a soli- 

 tary stamen. Gall flowers very numerous, stalked. — Warb. in Engl. 

 Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 161, t. X., A-E and in Warb. & De Wild. Fie. 

 Fl. Congo, 13, t. xxvii. ; Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 234, 

 partly ; De Wild, in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 203. F. callescens, 

 Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl.Welw. i. 1001. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Duala. Busgen, 565 ! Niasoso, Busgen, 288 ! 



Nile Land. Uganda : Sesse Islands, Lake Victoria, Carpenter, 13 ! Entebbe, 

 Bagshaire, 691 I 



Lower Gainea. Lower Congo : Kimuenza, south of Leopoldville, Mildbraed, 

 3561 ! Kisantu, Gillet, 1245 ! Angola : Golungo Alto ; between the Cuango 

 and Quiapoze streams, Welwitsch, 6395 ! Quiquele-quele spring near Sange, 

 Welwitsch, 6385 ! 6420 ! Amboini, near the fort of Quissaco, Gossweiler, 4481 ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Epulu, between Irumu and Mawambi, 

 Mildbraed, 2979 ! Bambata, Allard, 189 ! Eala, Laurent, 708 ! Gumbari, Seret, 

 467 ! Atenes, Sapin ! Lutshima, Sapin ! and without precise locality, Dewevre, 

 403 ! Demeuse, 463 ! 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 3237 ! 3645 ! 

 3779 ! Lake Kivu, Mildbraed, 1155 ! Uluguru, Stuhlmann, 8715 ! Amani, 

 Braun, 995 ! 



84. F. Rederi, Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 329. Branchlets 

 and stipules more or less as in F. camptoneura. Leaves obovate or 

 obovate-elliptic, subobtusely acuminate, more or less cuneate at 

 the base, 3^-5 in. long, 1|-2J broad, entire, chartaceous, dull and 

 glabrous on both surfaces, with a close pale yellow venation on the 

 lower surface ; midrib flat above, prominent below, about 1 lin. 



