198 cxxiiic. MORACEiE (Hutchinson) . [Ficus. 



8-9 on each side, bifurcate some distance from the margin, looped, 

 diverging from the midrib at an angle of about 75°, flat but distinct 

 above, prominent below ; tertiary nerves parallel, fairly close, 

 spreading from the lateral nerves at right angles, rather slender ; 

 veins very fine and close, visible only on the lower surface ; midrib 

 flat above, very prominent below, about 2 lin. broad at the base, 

 gradually narrowed to and bifurcate near the apex of the leaf ; 

 petiole 3-5 in. long, lJ-3 lin. thick, shortly and softly pubescent ; 

 stipules deciduous, coriaceous, triangular, 4 lin. long, about 3 lin. 

 broad, softly tomentose outside. Receptacles axillary, 2-3 together, 

 pedunculate, Bubglobose, about 5 lin. in diam., densely pilose or 

 glabrous and then often warted ; peduncle J-| in. long, densely 

 pubescent ; basal bracts 2, connate at the base, ovate, about 1 J lin. 

 long, meijibranous towards the margin, puberulous. Ostiolar 

 bracts all descending, hnear, obtuse, IJ-IJ lin. long, J lin. broad, 

 membranous, glabrous. Male flowers few, near the ostiole, with 

 a very short thick stalk ; perianth membranous, enclosing the 

 solitary sessile stamen. Gall flowers numerous, pedicellate. Female 

 flowers shortly stalked ; perianth-segments ovate-lanceolate, sub- 

 acute, J lin. long, membranous, glabrous ; ovary obovoid, f lin. 

 long, glabrous ; style lateral, inserted between the middle and the 

 top of the ovary ; stigma rather thick, oblong. — Mildbr. & Burret 

 in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 212. F. kotscliyana, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Bot. 

 Lugd.-Bat. iii. 288 ; T. Thoms. in Speke, Nile Journ. Append. 

 647 ; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 149. F. lateralis, Warb. in 

 Warb. & De Wild. Fie. Fl. Congo, 5. F. umhrosa, Warb. ex Mildbr. 

 & Burret, I.e., name only. Urostigma kotschyanum, Miq. in Hook. 

 Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 553, and Afr. Vijge-Boom. 27, t. iv. B. 



Upper Ooinea. Senegambia : forests of Bafing River, Lecard, 193 ! between 

 Mopti and Bjenne, Chevalier ! Gambia : ban£ of the Gambia River near 

 Sukuta Village, Denton ! Gold Coast : Shai Plains ; Agomeda, Johnson, 522 ! 

 Togo.: Kate Kratschi, Zech, 340 ! 342 ! Sokode, Kerstiny, 25 ! Basari, 

 Kersting, 417 ! Kirikiri, Kersiing, 54 ! Northern Nigeria : Katagum district, 

 Dalziel, 214 ! Bomu, Vogel, 73 ! Yoruba, Dudgeon, 65 ! and without 

 precise locality, Yates, 8 ! Cameroons : Adamaua ; Garua, Ledermann, 3282 ! 

 Dodo, Ledermann, 2914 ! 



Nile Land. Nubia : Meroe, Cailliaud. Sudan : Kordofan ; Jebel Ghulfan, 

 Broun, 1317 1 Bahr el Ghazal, Chaltin ! Sennar : Fazokl, Kotschy, 527 ! 

 Mount Tira, Kotschy, 407 ! Dinka : near Tekk, Schiueinjurth, 1309 ! Sobat 

 River, near Amot, Muriel, 102 ! Jur : Ghattas* .Seriba, Schweinfurth, 1288 ! 

 1328 ! 2124 ! 138 ! Mittu : Kaffulukku, on the Gulu River, Schweinfurth, 

 2811! Uganda: Madi, Speke db Grant, 636! expedition to the source of 

 the White Nile, without further locality, D'Arnauld ! Sabatier ! 



Rubber is obtained from this species on the West Coast. 



49. F. zambesiaca, Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 341. A tree 

 70-80 ft. high, 24 ft. in girth at 5 ft. from the ground {Scott) ; branch- 

 lets stout, with rather short internodes, velvety-tomentose when 

 young. Leaves oblong or oblong-elliptic, shortly cordate at the 

 base, obtuse at tha apex, 3-8 in, long, 1J-3J in. broad, entire, rigidly 



