164 cxxiiic. MORACEiE (Hutchinson) . [Ficiis. 



flowers subsessile ; stamen solitary. Female flowers subsessile, 

 scarcely sufficiently developed on the type for description. 



Nile Land. Uganda : Buddu, 4000 ft., Dawe, 286 ! 



Mr. Dawe states that this tree yields an inferior bark-cloth, and it is planted 

 only when other varieties are unobtainable. 



100. F. ovata, Vahl, Enum. ii. 185. A large tree with a very 

 broad crown ; young branchlets very stout, leafy, ribbed, purplish, 

 minutely puberulous. Leaves oblong-elliptic or elongate-ovate, 

 shortly and obtusely acuminate, rounded or cordate at the base, 

 7-10^ in. long, 2i-5i in. broad, entire, chartaceous, glabrous and 

 dull on both surfaces or finely puberulous below, finely reticulate 

 below, often yellowish-brown when dry ; midrib slightly impressed 

 on the upper- surface, very prominent below, about 1 lin. broad at 

 the base, gradually tapered to the apex ; lateral nerves 8-14 on each 

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

 more, the lowermost pair opposite, the others either opposite or 

 subalternate, slender, bifurcate J-^ in. from the margin, distinct on 

 both surfaces, prominent below ; tertiary nerves wavy, less prominent 

 than the lateral and more or less following their direction ; veins 

 close and distinct on the lower surface ; petiole lJ-2 in. long, longi- 

 tudinally sulcate, glabrous ; stipules caducous, lanceolate, long- 

 acuminate, up to 2 J in. long, glabrous. Keceptacles in axillary pairs, 

 sessile or very shortly pedunculate, subglobose or ellipsoid, 1-2 in. 

 in diam., finely puberulous, enclosed while young by a reddish finely 

 puberulous coriaceous calyptra. Basal bracts small, connate at the 

 base. Ostiole small, pore-like ; bracts all descending into the 

 receptacle, glabrous. Male flowers pedicellate : perianth-segments 

 ovate-acuminate, membranous, glabrous ; anther solitary, obtuse. 

 Female flowers sessile, with slender styles. Gall flowers long- 

 pedicellate. — Pers. Syn. ii. 609 ; Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. i. 

 502 ; Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 178 ; Brunner in Flora, 1840, Beibl. i. 

 72; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iii. 288; kildbr. & Burret 

 in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 243. F. calyptrata, Vahl, I.e., from descrip- 

 tion. F. spectabilis, Kunth & Bouche, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 

 1846, 15. F. africana, Hort. Berol. apud Kunth & Bouche, 

 I.e. F. Vohsenii, Warb. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 155, partly. F. 

 Buchneri, Warb. I.e. 157 ; De Wild, in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. hi. 

 201. F. megajphylla, Warb. in Warb. & De Wild. Fie. Fl. Congo 1, 

 inch var. glabra, Warb. I.e. 2. F. laurifolioides, Warb. ex A. 

 Cheval. in Compt. Rend. Acad. Paris, cxxxv. 443, name only. F. 

 Johnsionii, Stapf in Johnston, Liberia, ii. 652, t. 265. F. Gruendleri, 

 Warb. ex Mildbr. & Burret, I.e., name onlv. F. Sapini, De Wild, in 

 Fedde, Repert. xii. 302 ; De Wild, in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. Iii. 227. 

 Urostigma ovatum, Miq. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 553. V . 

 calyptratum, Miq. I.e. 



