186 cxxTiic. MORACEiE (Hutchinson). [Ficus, 



elliptic-oblanceolate, glabrous ; stamen solitary ; filament i lin. 

 long ; anther spreading horizontally on dehiscence. Female flowers 

 sessile ; perianth-segments triangular, acute ; achene subglobose, 

 smooth ; style short. Gall flowers pedicellate. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : by a stream about 500 ft. above sea-level, 

 near Bathurst, Johnston, 88 ! French Guinea : neighbourhood of Kindur, 

 Pobeguin, 1282 ! 



134. F. aganophila, Hutchinson in Kew BuUetiri, 1915, 338. A tree 

 50 ft. high ; young branches and branchlets shallowly sulcate when 

 dry, purplish, glabrous. Leaves elliptic or oblong-elliptic, rounded 

 or subtruncate at the base, shortly and subcaudately acuminate at 

 the apex, 3^-7 in. long, lj-3i in. broad, entire, coriaceous, glabrous 

 on both surfaces, very slightly shining above ; midrib slightly raised 

 above, very prominent below, about IJ lin. broad at the base, gradu- 

 ally tapered to and becoming very slender at the apex of the acumen ; 

 lateral nerves 10-12 on each side of the midrib, diverging fi'om it at 

 a wide angle, slightly curved, looped 1-2 lin. from the margin, the 

 loops forming a distinct intramarginal nerve prominent below ; 

 tertiary nerves scarcely less prominent than the lateral and following 

 their direction : veins rather slender and faint ; petiole -J—l in. long, 

 up to 2 lin. thick, becoming black when dry, glabrous ; stipules 

 caducous. Receptacles seen only in a very young condition, axillary, 

 probably sessile. 



Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria : Lagos ; Kradu Lagoon, near Jalavu 

 Island, Barter, 3238 ! 



Lower Guinea. Spanish Guinea : Uelleburg, Tessmann, 434 ! 



Tessmanns specimen consists only of leaves and a branchlet, but I have no 

 doubt that it is the same as Barter's from Nigeria. 



135. F. arcuatonervata, De Wild, ex Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 

 1915, 339. An epiphytic shrub when young ; branchlets rather sharply 

 angular, glabrous. Leaves oblanceolate, gradually acuminate, 

 the acumen ^-| in. long, obtuse, narrowed to the base,. 3J-5 in. 

 long, Ij-lJ in. broad, entire, chartaceous, finely verrucose on the 

 upper surface, glabrous below ; midrib flat above, prominent below, 

 about 1 lin. broad at the base, gradually tapered to and becoming 

 very slender at the apex of the blade ; lateral nerves about 5 on each 

 side of the midrib, diverging from it at an angle of 45°, arcuate, 

 looped some distance from the margin, prominent and pale-coloured 

 below ; tertiary nerves primarily following the direction of the 

 lateral, very slender, eventually branching, distinct below ; petiole 

 3-4 lin. long, covered with glabrous thin transversely splitting 

 deciduous bark ; stipules early deciduous. Receptacles in axillary 

 pairs, or perhaps sometimes solitary, sessile, obovoid-globose, 3--4 

 lin. in diam., glabrous. Basal bracts 2, more or less semicircular, 

 small, with submembranous margins which break up and fall away, 

 glabrous. Ostiole small and inconspicuous, 2-lipped ; bracts all 



