208 cxxiiic. MORACEiE (Hutchinsoii). [Ficus. 



slightly })rotiuded, 2-lipped ; bracts all descending into the recep- 

 tacle, glabrous. Male flowers pedicellate; perianth-segments 3; stamen 

 solitary. Female flowers Avith a slender style. Gall flowers pedicel- 

 late. — F. Chevalieri, Warb. ex Mildbr. & Bm-rct, I.e. 235, name only. 



Upper Guinea. Sicn-a Leoiiu : Sasseni, JScott Elliot, 4522 ! French Guinea : 

 Casamanzc River, Chevalier I 



165. F. natalensis, Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 88. A shrub or small 

 tree ; branchlets covered with greyish bark, glabrous. Leaves 

 oblanceolate or obovate-oblanceolate, obtusely pointed or rounded 

 at the apex, naiTowed to the base, lf-3J in. long, |-1{ in. broad, 

 entire, chartaceous, glabrous and dull on both surfaces ; midrib 

 flat above, prominent beloAv, gradually tapered to the apex of the 

 blade ; lateral nerves 8-9 on each side of the midrib, diverging from 

 it at an angle of 45° or less, looped near the margin, prominent but 

 rather slender below ; tertiary nerves only slightly less prominent 

 than the lateral and parallel with them ; petiole comparatively 

 short, J-1 in. long, glabrous ; stipules caducous, linear-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, about 2 lin. long, coriaceous, glabrous. Receptacles 

 axillary, mostly in pairs, pedunculate, obovoid-globose, stipitate at 

 the base, about I in. long, with a very large smooth ostiolar promi- 

 nence, the rest wrinkling like a dried plum when dry ; peduncle 2-3 J 

 lin. long, rather slender, glabrous. Basal bracts early caducous, 

 leaving behind the small persistent unilateral base, glabrous. Ostiole 

 small and pore-like ; bracts few, all descending into the receptacle, 

 glabrous. Male flowers with a solitary stamen. Female flowers 

 sessile. Gall flowers stalked. — F. Columharum, Hochst. I.e., name only. 

 F. Volkensii, Warb. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 167 ; Hiern in Cat. Afi\ PI. 

 Welw. i. 1007 ; Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 249. F. 

 Durhanii, Warb. in Viertelj. Naturforsch. Ges. Zurich, li. 142. F. 

 chrysocerasus, Welw. ex Warb. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 167 ; Hiern in 

 Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 1005. F. Dekdekena, Mildbr. & Burret, I.e. 

 255, partly, not of A. Rich. F. natalensis, var. pedunculata, Sim, 

 For. Fl. Port. E. Afr. 98, t. xc. flg. A. 



Upper Guinea. Gold C'oa.st : Kwaliu, Johnson, ij'i[) ! near Aburi, Brown. 

 178 ! Cameroon8 : New Tegel, Winkler, 205 ! Fernando Po : on the beach, 

 Mann, 252 ! 



Nile Land. Uganda: Entebbe, Dawe, 108! Biiddu ; 8ango, Dawe, 319! 

 9(>2 ! Toro ; near Mpanga, Bagslmwe, 1186 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Libongo, in woods, Welwitsch, 0357 ! Golungo 

 Alto : near Sange, [VHwitsch, 6346 ! ' 



Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, .S^ac/c«.r, 1170 ! German East Africa : Dercma, 

 roWv«.y, 136! Schefflcr, ]\5'. Amaml, Zimmcnmnn, 002 \ 924' 964! Biissc, 

 2243 ! behind .Sadani, Engler, 1663 ! Uluguru Mountains, Stuhlmann, 8941 ! 

 Holtz, 1270 ! Mhonda, HoUz, 1240 ! Dar-es-Salaam, Stahhnann, 63a ! Englrr, 

 2200 ! Lindi district, Busae, 2881 ! Kibata, Basse, 3108 ! Masailand, Hollis ! 

 Nyasaland : Upper Shire Valley, Kirk, 5 ! 



Occurs also in Natal and cxtratropical Portuguese East Africa. 



According to Da we this species, of which the vernacular name is " iSanyo,' is 



