182 cxxTiic. MORACE^ (Hutchinson). [Ficiis. 



ovate, obtuse, silky-hairy outside. Ostiole 2-lipped ; bracts all 

 descending into the receptacle, the two next the mouth longer and 

 more fleshy than the others, oblong-linear, obtuse, glabrous. Male 

 flowers sessile ; perianth-segments 3, broadly elliptic, obtuse, reddish 

 towards the base, membranous, glabrous. Stamen solitary ; anther 

 oblong-ellipsoid, obtuse at both ends. Female flowers : perianth- 

 segments 3, ovate-oblong, acutely acuminate, membranous, glabrous. 

 Achene slightly obovoid, smooth ; style slightly longer than the 

 achene, slender, with a thickened stigma. 



TTpper Guinea. Senegambia : Casamanze River, Chevalier ! Dahomey : 

 without precise locality, Poisson ! Togo : Basari, growing on an old Baobab, 

 Ker sting, A. 21 ! A. 221 ! 533 ! 



North Central. Shari district : Kaba Maro, Chevalier, 9091 ! 



The figs seem rather variable in size; in Kersting, 221, they are about 5 lin. in 

 diara. and in Chevalier, 9091, one fig measures as much as 8 lin. In the latter 

 specimen the leaves are more chartaceous than in the others, but otherwise 

 it appears to agree with this species. 



127. F. Petersii, Warh. in Engl. Jahrh. xx. 164. A tree up to 

 60 ft. high ; young branchlets crisped-pubescent, at length nearly 

 glabrous, ribbed when dry. Leaves oblanceolate, elliptic-oblanceo- 

 late or obovate-oblanceolate, narrowed to an obtuse base or rarely 

 rounded to the base, very shortly and obtusely pointed, lf-3J in. 

 long, |-1J in. broad, thinly but rather rigidly chartaceous, glabrous 

 on both surfaces ; lateral nerves 6-8 on each side of the midrib, 

 slightly arcuate, conspicuous on both surfaces but more prominent 

 below, looped within the margin ; tertiary nerves and veins lax and 

 nearly as prominent below as the lateral nerves ; petiole up to 2 in. 

 long, slender, glabrous ; stipules caducous. Receptacles axillary, 

 mostly paired, quite sessile, ovoid, brown-tomentose when mature, 

 about 4 J lin. long and 3J lin. in diam., with a conspicuous pore-like 

 ostiole. Basal bracts small and deciduous. Bracts of the ostiole 

 descending vertically into the receptacle, glabrous. Male flowers 

 with a membranous glabrous perianth and a solitary stamen.^Mildbr. 

 & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 258. F. ruficeps, Warb. in Engl. Jahrb. 

 XXX. 294. F. Galpinii, Warb. in Viertelj . Naturforsch. Ges. Ziirich, li. 

 140. F. Dinteri, Warb. I.e. 141. F. schinziana, Warb. I.e. 143. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : between Quihita and Gambos, Pearson, 2498 ! 

 2534 ! between Gambos Mission Station and Cabama, Pearson, 2476 ! Mount 

 Kileba, Gossweiler, 1696 ! Kubango ; between Colui and the River Loanga, 

 Gossweiler, 2121 ! 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Kimamba in Unyanyembe, Prittwilz 

 d- Gaffron, 269 ! Ssongea, Keudel, 1439 ! Usagara ; Wumi River, Trotha, 

 191 ! Usafu : near Utengule, Goetze, 1057 ! British Central Africa : Nyasa- 

 land ; Maravi, Peters 1 Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 456 ! 



Occurs also in the Transvaal and in German South West Africa. 



128. F. Adolfi-Friderici, 3Iildbr. in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 232. 

 A rather tall tree ; branches glabrous, longitudinally sulcate and 



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