Ficus.] cxxiiic. HORACES (Hutchinson). 171 



Ostiole 2-lipped, glabrous, scarcely produced, about J lin. wide. 

 Bracts all descending into the receptacle, the middle two broader 

 and more fleshy than the others, oblong, IJ lin. long, glabrous, the 

 others lanceolate, acute, 1 lin. long or less. Male flowers shortly 

 pedicellate ; perianth enclosing the solitary anther ; anther-cells 

 slightly superimposed. Female flowers sessile ; perianth-segments 3, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, glabrous. Achene ovoid- 

 globose, smooth ; style nearly as long as the achene, with a rather 

 broad flattened stigma. Gall flowers long-pedicellate, with a short 

 style. Receptacular scales lanceolate, acute, membranous. — Mildbr. 

 & Biuret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 220, partly. F. howardiana, Sim, 

 For. Fl. Port. E. Afr. 100, t. xcii. A. F. Homblei, De Wild, m 

 Fedde, Eepert. xii. 195, and in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 212. 



Nile Land. British East Africa : Mombasa, Boivin ! Sacleux, 2573 ! 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Ussiikuma Nyangcsi, Stuhlmann, 

 4141 ! Tabora, Trotha, 79 ! Portuguese East Africa : Shupanga, Kirk ! Mu- 

 balusi, Sim, 6262 ! Lorenzo Marques, Sim, 6368 ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Elizabethville, HomhU, 341 ! 



111. F. Dar-es-salaamii, Warh. ex Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xlvi. 221, in syn. A large much-branched shrub with several 

 stems; young branchlets densely and softly villous with whitish hairs, 

 becoming deeply sulcate and pubescent when older. Leaves oblong or 

 slightly oblong-oblanceolate, wider above the middle, shortly and 

 obtusely acuminate, rounded at the base, 4-7 in. long, 2-2f in. broad, 

 entire, finely puberulous and verrucose especially near the midrib 

 above, shortly pubescent on the veins and nerves below ; midrib flat 

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

 tapered to the apex ; lateral nerves subopposite, about 9 on each side 

 of the midrib, slightly arcuate and diverging at an angle of about 

 45°, running parallel for some distance with the margin, looped, 

 prominent on the lower surface ; tertiary nerves and veins scarcely 

 separable, forming a prominent rather lax venation below, not 

 visible above ; petiole li-2f in. long, slightly compressed, about 1 lin. 

 broad, thinly pilose ; stipules deciduous, not seen. Receptacles 

 axillary, sessile, globose, about J in. in diam., thinly pubescent, with 

 an inconspicuous 2-lipped ostiole. Basal bracts and rece{)tacle.s 

 more or less as in F. Stuhlmarinii, Warb.. but with the receptacles 

 much less hairy. — F. nigropunctata, \\'arb. ex Mildbr. & Burret, I.e. 

 220, partly. 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : I)ar-es-8alaam, near the Bismarck 

 monument, Holtz, 923 ! StuJdmann ! 



Closely allied to F. Stuhlmatniii, Warb., but distinguished by the differently 

 shaped leaves, the nature of their indumentum, and the le.ss hairy receptacles. 



112. F. glumosa, Del Cent. PL Meroe, G3. A large tree ; branch- 

 lets twiggy, pubescent or pilose. Leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, 

 cordate at the base, rounded and very obtusely and shortly acuminate. 



