192 cxxiiic. HORACES (Hutchinson). [Ficus. 



below ; petiole 2-4J in. long, flattened in the same plane as the leaf- 

 blade, about IJ lin. thick, very finely longitudinally sulcate when 

 dry, glabrous or nearly so ; stipules not seen, evidently soon 

 deciduous. Receptacles axillary, probably in pairs, pedunculate, 

 obovoid-ellipsoid, stipitate, 7-8 lin. long including the stipe which 

 is about 2 lin. long, rounded at the apex, glabrous, mottled like the 

 fruit of a Parinarium ; peduncle 4 lin. long, scarcely f lin. thick, 

 puberulous ; basal bracts reduced to an oblique rim or cup, finely 

 puberulous. Ostiolar bracts all pointing into the receptacle, linear- 

 subulate, subacute, about 1 lin. long, with narrowly hyaline margins. 

 Male flowers very few, near the ostiole ; perianth-segments 3, 

 membranous, enclosing the solitary sessile anther ; anther J lin. 

 long. Female flowers scattered amongst the gall flowers, subsessile ; 

 perianth-segments 3, acutely triangular, about J lin. long, thinly 

 membranous and hyaline ; ovary obliquely ellipsoid ; style lateral, 

 nearly as long as the ovary, with an oblique stigma. Gall flowers 

 numerous, pedicellate, overtopping the female, distinguished by 

 their much shorter styles. Scales of the receptacle subulate, acute, 

 I lin. long, with hyaline margins. — Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xlvi. 214, partly. Urostigma ahutilifolimn, Miq. in Hook. Lond. 

 Journ. Bot. vi. 551, partly, and Afr. Vijge-Boom. 23, t. iii., partly 

 incl. icon. 



Nile Land. Sennar : Fazokl, Kotschy, 462 ! 



The specimen collected by Burke at Macalisburg, Transvaal, included in this 

 species by Miquel, is distinct, and has been described by Warburg as F. 

 soldanella. 



Mildbraed & Burret (I.e.) have reduced F. mittuensis, Warb., and Urostigma 

 catalpcp folium, Miq., to this species ; but the former may be separated by its 

 very prominently umbonate receptacles and the wider sinus at the cordate 

 base of the leaf, and the latter species, which in the present work is united with 

 /'. populifolia, Vahl, by its much smaller rounded and not stipitate receptacles 

 and long-acuminate glabrous leaves. 



142. F. Kerstingii, Warb. ex Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xlvi. 215, in syn. A tree 20 ft. high ; young flowering branchlets 

 stout, about 4 lin. in diam. near the tip, glabrous, with reddish bark 

 marked by scattered lenticels. Leaves dark green with red nerves 

 {Barter), very broadly ovate or suborbicular, very shortly and obtusely 

 acuminate, deeply cordate, the basal lobes forming an open sinus, 

 4-6 in. long, 3|-6 in. broad, entire, rigidly chartaceous or sub- 

 coriaceous, dull on both surfaces, glabrous, 7-9-nerved at the base, 

 the first and second nerves of these with several descending branches ; 

 midrib flat above, prominent below, much narrower than the petiole, 

 about f lin. broad at the base, gradually narrowed to and finally 

 reaching the apex of the leaf ; lateral nerves (excluding the basal 

 ones) 4-5 on each side, diverging from the midrib at an angle of 

 about 65°, bifurcate about | in. from the margin, distinct above, 

 prominent below ; tertiary nerves rather lax ; veins close and rather 



