180 cxxiiic. HORACES (Hutchinson) . [Ficus. 



names only. F. Kaba, De Wild, in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 213. 

 Urostigma Vogelii, Miq. in Hook. Niger Fl. 520, and in Hook. Lond. 

 Journ. Bot. vi. 553. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal: Maye (?), Chevalier I St. Louis, Chevalier \ 

 Cayor, Poisson ! and without precise locality, Farmar, 56 ! French Guinea : 

 Konakry, Dyhmvski ! Poisson, 16 ! Deheaux, 138 ! Gambia : near Bathurst, 

 Dudgeon, 7 ! Sierra Leone : without locality, IScott Elliot, 5299 ! Lane-Poole ! 

 Liberia : Grand Bassa and Cape Palmas, Vogel, 6 ! 47 ! Sinoe, Sim, 25 I 

 Whyte, 19 ! Gola, Bunting ! Gold Coast : Sehwhi and Warn districts, Armitage ! 

 Odorso, Farmar, 391 ! Yenahin, Chipp, 130 ! Togo : various localities, 

 Schlechter, 12968 ! Baumann, 571 ! Biittner, 709 ! 710 ! Kersting, A. 542 ! 

 A. 543 ! A. 722 ! Zech ! Southern Nigeria : Lagos, Moloney ! Schlechter ! 

 Nun River bank, Mann, 474 ! Engenni River, Holland, 152 ! Cross River, 

 Holland, 7 ! Bassa, Elliott, 95 ! Northern Nigeria : Ankpa, Lamb, 20 ! and 

 without precise locality, Yates, 55 ! Cameroons : Barombi, Preuss, 500 ! 

 Zenker, 1914 ! Johann-Albrechtshohe, Staudt, 895 ! 



South Central. - Belgian Congo : Bena-Dibele, Flamigni, 171 ! Middle 

 Congo, Claessens, 513 ! Busira Monene, Laurent, 400 ! Banzyville, ivithout 

 collector (in Herb. Brussels) ! 



Var. puhicarpa, Mildbr. & Burret, I.e. 238. Mature receptacles densely whitish 

 pubescent. — F. incognita, De Wild, in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 213. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal : without locality, Talmy, 97 ! Gold Coast : Krepi 

 Plains, at Blengo, Johnsmi, 523 ! Togo : Basari, Kersting, 550 ! Lomboro, 

 Kersting, A. 539 ! Fernando Po : Musola, Mildbraed, 6976 ! 6988 ! 



Mozan^b. Distr. German East Afiica : Coast, without precise locality, 

 Saclevx, 405 ! 



124. F. Nekbudu, Warb. in Warb. & De Wild. Fie. Fl. Congo, 

 G, /. iv. A huge forest tree (Moore) ; young branchlets stout, at 

 first adpressed-pubescent, at length glabrous. Leaves spreading 

 horizontally, elliptic or obovate-elliptic, rounded at both ends or 

 rarely slightly cordate at the base, 6-15 in. long, 3J-8 in. broad, 

 entire, coriaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, with petiole, nerves 

 and veins more or less as in F. Vogelii, Miq. Receptacles sessile, 

 mostly in pairs, subglobose, about ^-| in. in diam., at first 

 woolly-pilose, at length adpressed-pilose. Basal bracts densely 

 villous outside. Ostiole and flowers as in F. Vogelii. — Mildbr. & 

 Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 239. F. utilis, Sim, For. Fl. Port. 

 E. Afr. 100, t. xci. 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Welle district, Witterwulghe ! 

 Mozamb. Distr. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Mlanji, Moore \ 



Grown in the Roval Botanic Gardens and at the Serrcs Colonialcs, Brussels, 

 in 1913. 



According to Sim the plant described by him under the name F. utilis occurs 

 throughout Portuguese East Africa ; I have compared his type specimen, 

 6125, from Lorenzo Marques with the type of F. Nekbudu and they seem to 

 be identical. Sim states that his plant is the source of all the native cloth in 

 the M'Chopes district. 



125. F. vestitobracteata, Warb. in Engl. Jahrb. xx.W9. Branch- 

 lets stout, often pubescent around the scars of the fallen stipules, 

 otherwise glabrous. Leaves large, oblong-elliptic, shortly and 



