Ficus.] cxxiiic. MORACE.E (Hutchinson). 165 



Upper Ouinea. Without precise locality, Thonning ! Senegambia : shore 

 between Mbidgem and Dakar, Chevalier ! and without preciHe locality, Talmy I 

 Sierra Leone : Sugarloaf Mountain, Scoit Elliot, 5754 ! and without precise 

 locality, Vohsen ! French Guinea : Sareya, Chevalier, 454 ! Loh Islands, 

 Poh€guin, 1234 ! Kindia, Pob^guin, 1260 ! Konakry, Maclaud ! Uyhowjiki ! 

 Liberia : Sinoe, Sim, 13 ! 17 ! Johnston ! Ivory Coast : (.'avally basin. 

 Chevalier, 20067 ! Gold Coast : without precise locality, Burton d- Cameron ! 

 Togo : various localities, Warnecke, 337 ! Kersting, 97 *! A 337 ! A 394 ! 429 ! 

 Mellin, 89 ! Doering, 97 ! Zech, 14 ! Northern Nigeria : Bassa Province ; Dekina. 

 Lamb, 19! Cameroons : Bipinde, Zenker, 2427! Neu-Tegel, Winkler, 206! 

 221 ! Fernando Po : Musola, above San Carlos, Mildbraed, 6986 ! 



Nile Land. Niamniam : on the Linduku River, Schweinfurth, 3259 ! 

 Mansilli River, Schweinfurth, 3882 ! British East Africa : 5 days march from 

 Lubwas, Whyte ! Uganda: Mkakawe, Scott Elliot, 7271 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Malange, Marques, 2 ! 7 ! Gossweikr, 1010 ! 

 Loanda. Grundler ! Soba Bango, Buchner, 547 ! 672 ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Monbuttu ; Kussumbo River, Schwein- 

 furth, 3673 ! Munza, Schweinfurth, 3439 ! various localities, Sapin ! Laurent, 

 1075! 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 1605 ! Kifu- 

 mbiro, near Bukoba, Mildbraed, 69 ! Buanjai Mission, Mildbraed, 50 ! Ugalla 

 River, Bbhvt,, 123a ! Ujiji, Lake Tanganyika, Trotha, 139 ! 



Var. octo7neli folia, Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 244. Leaves below 

 and petioles more or less pilose-pubescent. — F. octomeli folia, Warb. in Warb, 

 & De Wild. Fie. Fl. Congo, 1. 



Lower Guinea. Lower Congo : without precise locality, Cabra ! 

 Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Central Urundi, Trotha, 74 ! 



According to Dr. Mildbraed, this species produces an inferior bark-cloth. 



101. F. mallotoides, Mildbr. & Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin. 1915, 

 334. A large epiphyte ; branchlets rather stout, closely longitudinally 

 sulcate, finely pubescent. Leaves broadly ovate, cordate, slightly and 

 very obtusely pointed at the apex, 5J-6^ in. long, 3J-5 in. broad, 

 entire, chartaceous, dull and glabrous on both surfaces; midrib flat 

 above, very prominent below, about 1 lin. broad at the base, gradually 

 tapered to the apex of the blade ; lateral nerves 10-12 on each side of 

 the midrib, diverging from it at an angle of 50°-70°, the lowermost 

 pair with from 4-5 secondary ones radiating from the base on their 

 lower side, all distinct on both surfaces, rather slender but prominent 

 below, branched and looped some distance from the margin ; ter- 

 tiary nerves about half as prominent as the lateral and following 

 their direction, but somewhat zig-zag ; veins rather lax, distinct 

 below, petiole lJ-3 in. long, about 1 Un. thick, glabrous; stipules 

 subpersistent, lanceolate, acutely acuminate, J in. long, about 4 lin. 

 broad, thinly papyraceous, finely puberulous outside, shortly tomen- 

 tose within. Receptacles axillary, sessile, green with small reddish- 

 brown spots when fresh, depressed-globose, |-1 in. in diam.. minutely 

 subadpressed-pubescent on the outside, yellowish-brown and wrinkled 

 when dry. Basal bracts soon deciduous. Ostiole 'J-lij)ped, not 

 prominent ; bracts not visible from the outside, all descending into 

 the receptacle, the two nearest the mouth much larger thaji the 

 others, rigid, thick, oblong, 4;runcate at the apex, 3 lin. long, glabrous, 



