158 cxxiiic. HORACES (Hutchinson) . [Ficus. 



triangular-oblanceolate, truncate and slightly emarginate at the 

 apex, narrowed to a subacute base, f-1 in. long, 5-7 lin. broad, 

 membranous when young, becoming more chartaceous, dull and 

 glabrous on both smfaces ; midrib flat above, prominent below, 

 becoming slender and branching below the apex of the blade ; lateral 

 nerves 5-6 on each side of the midrib, very slender, looped within 

 the margin, distinct on both surfaces ; petiole 1^-2 lin. long, slender, 

 glabrous ; stipules soon caducous, lanceolate, subacute, about 2 lin. 

 long, slightly pubescent. Receptacles not know^n. — De Wild, in 

 Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 202. 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Ituri Region ; Wambutti, Mildhraed, 

 290] ! Upper Aruwimi, Pynaert, 692 ! 



In cultivation at the Serres Coloniales, Laeken, Brussels, in 191.3. 



90. F. Leprieuri, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iii. 219. A 

 tree up to about 80 ft. high ; young branchlets short and twiggy, 

 subterete, glabrous. Leaves small, obtriangular, mostly quite 

 truncate, rarely slightly rounded, undulate or broadly emarginate 

 at the apex, cuneate to an obtuse base, 1^-3 in. long, li-2| in. broad 

 across the top, entire, chartaceous or rigidly subcoriaceous, glabrous 

 and mostly somewhat dull on both surfaces ; margins recurved ; 

 midrib prominent below, convex, abruptly two or three times divided 

 about a third of its length from the apex, when thrice divided then 

 the third division continuing the midrib towards the apex of the leaf 

 but much fainter and usually again branched ; lateral nerves 4-7 on 

 each side, arising from the midrib at an angle of from 45°-65°, 

 looped, the loops forming a wavy line parallel with and about 1 lin. 

 from the margin ; tertiary nerves and veins rather lax, distinct 

 below ; petiole |-| in. long, ^-J lin. thick, glabrous ; stipules 

 caducous, small, lanceolate, acute, rusty-hirsute or tomentose on 

 the outside. Receptacles in axillary pairs on the young annual 

 shoots, pedunculate, globose, mammillate at the apex, 3-4 lin. in 

 diam., smooth ; peduncles 2^5 lin. long, glabrous or very minutely 

 and sparingly puberulous ; basal bracts connate into a saucer- 

 shaped entire shortly ciliolate fleshy cup about J lin. high. Ostiole 

 pore-like, gaping ; bracts all descending into the receptacle, glabrous. 

 Male flowers with a solitary stamen. Female flowers numerous, 

 sessile ; perianth cupular, 3-lobed, lobes triangular, acute, mem- 

 branous, glabrous. Gall flowers pedicellate ; pedicels red, glabrous ; 

 perianth as in the male, membranous. — Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xlvi. 246, excl. syn. F.furcata, Warb. F. triangularis, Warb. 

 in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 174, Notizbl. konigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, v. 64, 

 t. iii. and in Engl. Pflanzenwelt Afr. i. ii. 682, fig. 580. ■ ^ 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia : Cayor, Leprieur ! Sierra Leone : King 

 Road, Barter ! Mount Yamba, near Buyabuya, Scott Elliot, 428G ! 4991 ! 

 French Guinea : Casamanze River, Carabane, Chevalier, 2655 ! Ditiun, Chevalier, 

 12988 ! Liberia : Sinoe Basin, Whyte, 10 ! Sim., 36 ! Fishtown, Dinklage, 1907 ! 

 2081 ! Gold Coast : Asientiem, Chipp, 294 ! and without precise locality, 



