206 cxxiiic. HORACES (Hutcliiiisoii). [Ficus. 



undulate intruiiiarginal nerve 1 lin. distant from the margin ; tertiary 

 nerves often only slightly less conspicuous than the secondary and 

 parallel with them ; veins delicate and often straw-coloured below ; 

 ])etiole short for the size of the blade, J-l|- (rarely 2) in. long, about 

 1 lin. thick, glabrous. Receptacles axillary, mostly in pairs, pedun- 

 culate, depressed-globose, 5-6 lin. in diam. when ripe, orange- 

 (H)loured, glabrous ; peduncle 4-5 lin. long, about 2 lin. thick, glabrous. 

 Basal bracts soon deciduous, connate at the base, membranous, 

 glabrous. Ostiole pore-like, small, all the bracts descending vertically 

 into the receptacle. Male flowers very few near the ostiole, with a 

 solitary stamen. Female flowers sessile. Gall flowers pedicellate. — 

 Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 231, partly; De Wild, in 

 Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 200. F. Laurentii, Warb. in Warb. & De 

 AVild. Fie. Fl. Congo, 21 ; Mildbr. & Burret, I.e. 231, partly ; De Wild. 

 I.e. 2U. 



Upper Guinea. Liberia: Siiioe, JSini, 10! Grand Bsissa., UinJ:lag<', 1834! 

 Dahomey : near Zagnanado, Poisson, 38 ! near Sagou, Poisson, 23 ! Southern 

 Nigeria: Onitsa, Barter, 294! Eppah, Barter, 3311! Bonny, Kalbreyer, 

 70! 



Lower Guinea. Spanish Guinea : Uelleburg, Tessmann, 440 ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Lusambo, Laurent ! between Niangara 

 and Dungu, Sere.t, 696 ! Eala, Pyrtaert, 1494 ! Laurent, 765 ! 



Grown at Kcw from plants collected at Old Calabar by Mr. J. H. Holland ; 

 cultivated also in the Serres coloniales, Laeken, Brussels. 



162. F. cyathistipuloides, De Wild, in Fedde, Repert. xii. 194. 

 Branchlets longitudinally sulcate, glabrous. Leaves oblanceolate, 

 vevy obtusely and gradually acuminate, narrowed to the base, 

 3-5 in. long, 1-lJ in. broad, entire, coriaceous, dull and glabrous 

 on both surfaces ; midrib prominent on the lower surface, about 

 1 lin. broad at the base, gradually tapered to the apex of the leaf- 

 blade ; lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, diverging 

 from it at an angle of 45°, looped some distance from the margin, 

 prominent below ; tertiary nerves lax and slender, much branched ; 

 venation rather close and delicate, fairly evident below ; petiole 

 J-| in. long, about | lin. thick, with a narrow V-shaped groove on 

 the upper surface, glabrous ; stipules deciduous, short. Receptacles 

 axillary, solitary, pedunculate, globose, about 1^ in. in diam., con- 

 tracted into a cylindrical stipe about 2J in. long and 1-| lin. thick, 

 glabrous; peduncle about 4 lin. long and IJ lin. thick, glabrous. 

 Basal bracts 2, deciduous. Ostiole slightly protruded, 2-lipped ; 

 orifice scarcely 1 lin. long. Bracts all descending into the receptacle, 

 those nearest the orifice larger and more fleshy than the others, gla- 

 brous. Male flowers pedicellate ; perianth-segments linear-lanceolate, 

 acute. If lin. long, membranous, glabrous. Stamen solitary ; fila- 

 ment broadly winged ; anther-cells distinct, 1 lin. long, connective 

 produced into a mucio above the anther. Female flowers few, sessile. 



