Ficus.] cxxiiic. MORACEiE (Hutchinson). 155 



broad at the base, gradually ta])ered to the apex ; lateral nerves 

 about 5 on each side of the midrib, diverging at an angle of 45^, 

 becoming rather slender and looped towards the margin ; tertiary- 

 nerves few and very slender, more or less zig-zag between the lateral 

 ones ; veins enclosing slightly raised dark brown areas on the lower 

 surface ; petiole J— J in. long, glabrous ; stipules as above. Recep- 

 tacles axillary, pedunculate, ellipsoid-obovoid, stipitate, nearly H in. 

 long and 1 in. in diam., glabrous ; peduncle 5-4 lin. long, sulcata, 

 glabrous, nearly 1 lin. thick ; stipe about 2i lin. long, stout. Basal 

 bracts 2, connate at the base, ovate-orbicular, about 2 lin. long, 

 submembranous, glabrous. Ostiole not prominent, 2 -lipped ; 

 mouth J lin. wide, with no visible bracts from the outside ; bracts 

 very few, descending, linear, up to 3 lin. long, slightly fleshy, glabrous. 

 Receptacular wall about 2J lin. thick. Male flowers not seen, but 

 almost certainly with only 1 stamen. Female flowers stoutly 

 pedicellate; perianth-segments 4, oblong-ovate, obtusr, with 

 membranous hyaline margins. Achene smooth ; style rather thick, 

 shortly 2-lobed. Receptacular scales subulate-lanceolate, acute, 

 IJ lin. long, with thin membranous margins. — F. cyathistipula, 

 Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 234, partly, not of Warb. 



Upper Gainea. Cameroons : Buea, Reder, 395 ! Ebcnda, Reder, 1503 ! 



This species has leaves very similar to F. camptoneura, Mildbr., and recep- 

 tacles like those of F. cyathistipula, Warb. 



85. F. mutantifolia, Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 33(1, uitlt 

 fig. Branchlets quadrangular, shortly brownish-tonientose, at length 

 nearly glabrous. Leaves when young very different from the adult 

 stage ; young leaves narrowly oblanceolate, rounded at the apex, 

 slightly narrowed to an obtuse base, 1-1^ in. long, J-J in. broad, entire, 

 chartaceous, becoming almost black on the upper surface when dry, 

 rather finely reticulate and brown below, with about 9 pairs of lateral 

 nerves ; mature leaves rigidly coriaceous, oblong-oblanceolate, 

 slightly truncate or rounded at the apex, obtuse at the base, U-2i 

 in. long, J-l in. broad, entire, light green on both surfaces when dry. 

 shining above ; midrib flat or very slightly immersed above, slightly 

 raised below, J lin. broad at the base, gradually narrowed to the apex, 

 bifurcate about J in. from the apex; lateral nerves 9-11 on each 

 side, very slightly immersed above, slightly prominent below, 

 diverging from the midrib at an angle of 45*^, looped, the loops 

 forming a crenate intramarginal nerve about J lin. from the margin ; 

 tertiary nerves and veins very few, scarcely evident ; petiole 3-4 

 lin. long, of the young leaves rather slender, glabrous, of the mature 

 leaves about | lin. thick ; stipules persistent or subpersistent, ovate, 

 acutely acuminate, about 2 lin. long and 1.^ lin. broad, membranous, 

 pubescent when young, soon becoming glabrous or nearlv so. Re- 

 ceptacles crowded towards the aj)ex of each shoot, sessile, ovoitl- 

 globose, about 2J lin. in diam., minutely and softly puberulous; 



