Ficus.] cxxiiic. MORACE^ (Hutchinson). IGl 



the midrib, diverging from it at an angle of about 45°, slightly 

 arcuate, distinct above, very prominent below, looped close to 

 the margin ; tertiary nerves wavy and reticulate ; venation close 

 and forming a neat distinct network on both surfaces ; petiole 

 1-2| in. long, about 2 lin. thick, at first densely shaggy-villous with 

 hairs, yellowish when dry, which eventually fall ofE and leave the 

 petiole merely furfuraceous ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, acutely 

 acuminate, 1-H in. long, shortly and rather densely pubescent, 

 deciduous. Receptacles axillary, sessile, globose or obovoid-globose, 

 up to IJ in. in diam., densely villous with yellow hairs. Basal bracts 

 suborbicular, membranous, large, villous outside, glabrous towards 

 the margin. Ostiole small and inconspicuous, pore-like ; bracts all 

 descending into the receptacle, glabrous. Male flowers rather 

 numerous, pedicellate ; perianth-segments linear-lanceolate, acute. 

 Stamen solitary ; anther oblong, J lin. long. Female flowers sessile ; 

 style rather short with a thick stigma. Gall flowers very numerous, 

 pedicellate. — Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iii. 288- Mildbr. & 

 Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 241 ; Be Wild, in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 

 Iii. 209. F. Afzelii, Hort. Berol. ex Kunth & Bouche, Ind. 8em. 

 Hort. Berol. 1846, 14, name only. F. lanigera, Warb. in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xx. 1(52. Urostigmu eriobotryoides, Miq. Afr. Vijge-Boom. 39. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Loone : near Duunia, Scott Elliot, 5017 ! near 

 Sulimania, Scott Elliot, 5330a ! and without precise locality, Vogel, J 39 ! French 

 Guinea: Kindia, Chevalier, 12774! Ivory Coast: Alepe, Chevalier, 17891! 

 Gold Coast : Kumassi, Cummins, 120 ! Krobo Plains, Johnson, 581 ! Aburi, 

 Johnson, 930 ! Southern Nigeria : Asaba district ; Ogodo, Unwin ! Cameroons : 

 Dipika, Ledertnann, 453 ! Mungo, Biicholz, 80 ! Neu-Tegel, Winkler, 213 ! 222 ! 

 Buea, Beder, 711 ! 



Lower Guinea. French Congo : Mayumbe forests, Thollon, 1125 ! 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Wau Island, in Lake Ki\ u, MiU- 

 braed, 1170! Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 1449! 



Var. Caillei, A. Chev. ex Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 242. Differ; 

 from the type in the leaves being permanently and rather densely pubescent 

 with gold-coloured hairs on the lower surface. — F. monbiittensis, Warb. in Warb. 

 & De Wild. Fie. Fl. Congo, 11, t. xxv. 



Upper Guinea. French Guinea : Bed of the River Ditiun, Chcmlier, 12989! 

 Southern Nigeria : Owerri district, Sherriff ! Northern Nigeria : Ank|>a. 

 Lamb, 21 ! 81 ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Monbuttu ; Munza, Schweinfnrth, 157 ! 

 3335 ! Gumbari, Seret, 464 ! 



Var. latifolia^ Hutchinson. Leaves broad and rounded or subcordate at 

 the base. 



Lower Guinea. Island of Annobon, Mildbraed, 6517 ! 6523 ! 



96. F. Dawei, Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 332. with Jhj. A 

 tree up to 50 ft. high, with a spreading habit ; young branchlets leafy 

 at the apex, very stout, villous. Leaves large, elongate-elliptic or 

 narrowly oblong-elliptic, shortly and obtusely acuminate (acumen 

 J— J in. long), rounded and emarginate at the base, 9-12 in. long, 2J-(i 

 in. broad, entire, chartaceous or thinly coriaceous, glabrous, finely 



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