184 cxxiiic. MORACE^ (Hutchinson). [Ficus. 



Stamen solitary ; filament short ; anther nearly J lin. long, obtuse. 

 Female flowers with a short stout pedicel ; perianth-segments 3, 

 lanceolate, acute, | lin, long, membranous ; achene obliquely 

 obovoid, smooth ; style inserted laterally, about one and a quarter 

 times the length of the achene, with a unilateral stigma. Kecepta- 

 cular scales subulate-lanceolate, acute, |-1 lin. long, membranous. 

 Gall flowers with pedicels | lin. long, otherwise similar to the female. 

 -De Wild, in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 229. 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Eala, Laurent, 1357 ! 



130. F. annobonensis, Mildhr. & Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 191,5. 

 337. A shrub; branches terete, nearly glabrous; young branchlets 

 finely puberulous. Leaves ovate-elliptic or oblong-elliptic, shortly 

 and very obtusely acuminate, rounded or subcordate at the base, 

 2|-4 in. long, 'IJ-lj in. broad, entire, chartaceous, finely verrucose 

 on the upper surface, glabrous below ; midrib slightly raised above, 

 prominent below% gradually tapered to the apex of the blade ; lateral 

 nerves 6-7 on each side of the midrib, diverging from it at an angle 

 of 45°, arcuate, looped some distance from the margin, slightly 

 prominent on both surfaces ; veins fairly close and prominent below ; 

 petiole J-| in. long, rather slender, glabrous; stipules caducous, linear- 

 lanceolate, acutely acuminate, 5 lin. long, glabrous, minutely ciliate. 

 Receptacles in axillary pairs, sessile, globose, 4 lin. in diam., glabrous. 

 Basal bracts 2, connate at the base, ovate, obtuse, soon splitting into 

 two unequal parts, 2 lin. long, coriaceous, minutely puberulous out- 

 side. Ostiole slightly protruded, 2-lipped ; bracts not visible from the 

 outside, all descending into the receptacle, the two nearest the orifice 

 oblong, obtuse, longer and thicker than the others. Male flowers 

 subsessile ; perianth-segments 3-4, oblong-elliptic, membranous, 

 glabrous ; stamen solitary. Female flowers subsessile ; perianth- 

 segments as in the male. Achene ellipsoid, glabrous ; style about as 

 long as the achene, slender, with a rather wide flattened. stigma. 



Lower Guinea. Annobon Island ; on dry hills in the north of the island, 

 above the Pale village, Mildhraed, 6639 ! 



131. F. LujaB, De Wild, in Fedde, Repert. xii. 196. Branchlets 

 glabrous, sulcate when dry, with more or less deciduous bark. Leaves 

 oblong-elliptic or oblanceolate-elliptic, gradually acuminate, sub- 

 acute, subcordate and slightly unequal-sided at the base, 7-11 in. 

 long and 5| in. broad, entire, coriaceous, dull and glabrous on both 

 surfaces ; midrib flat above, very prominent below, about 2 lin. 

 broad at the base, rounded in section, gradually tapered to the 

 apex of the blade ; lateral nerves about 11 on each side of the 

 midrib, the lower subopposite, diverging from the midik) at an angle 

 of 50-65°, thick and fairly prominent below, forming loops about 

 2 lin. distant from the margin ; tertiary nerves lax, much branched 

 and slender ; veins forming a dehcate close network below ; petiole 



