210 cxxiiL. MORACE^ (Hutchiiison). [Ficus. 



broad circular persistent base closely appressed to the base of the 

 receptacle. Ostiole small and pore-like ; bracts all descending into 

 the receptacle, glabrous. Male flowers with a solitary stamen. — F. 

 Leprieuri, Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 246, partly, not 

 of Miq. 



Upper Guinea. Caiiieroons : Bipinde, Zenker, 838 ! 1541 partly ! 2428 ! 

 Ebolowa district ; between the River Jah and Sangniclima, Mildbracd, 5471 ! 

 and without precise locality. Buchholz, 174 ! 



Lower Guinea. Gaboon : Limbareni, Buchholz, 180 ! 



168. F. persicifolia, Weliv. ex Warh. in Enfjl. Jahrb. xx. 162. 

 A singular tree, " mth very bright flowers " {Welwitsch), when young 

 ])arasitical after the fashion of Viscum album, Linn., growing on 

 Adansonia, when adult throwing out its own roots close to the trunk 

 of its host and becoming a tree, embracing with the lower flattened 

 reticulate part of its trunk that of its host and somewhat confluent 

 with its surface, but above separated from it and forming a cylindrical 

 trunk ; head dense, with its branches and glossy leaves emulating 

 the form of its host ; bark from whitish to grey, like that of the 

 Adansonia. Leaves narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, gradually sub- 

 acutely or obtusely acuminate, gradually narrowed to a broadly 

 obtuse base, 1|-5J in. long, |-1J in. broad, entire, thinly chartaceous 

 or submembranous, glabrous and dull on both surfaces, often darker 

 coloured above ; midrib often slightly impressed above, prominent 

 below, about J lin. broad near the base, becoming very slender 

 towards the apex ; lateral nerves about 15 on each side of the midrib, 

 arising from the latter almost at right angles, distinct on both 

 surfaces, slightly prominent below, looped near the margin ; veins 

 slender, distinct but not prominent below, rather close ; petiole 

 J— 1 in. long, channelled above, glabrous ; stipules often persistent 

 on the young leafy sterile shoots, caducous on the flowering ones, 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, about f in. long, submembranous, striate, 

 glabrous, brown when dry. Receptacles axillary or in the axils of 

 fallen leaves, usually two together, crowded, pedunculate, globose, 

 resembling very small peas, 2-2| lin. in diam., glabrous ; peduncle 

 rather slender, lJ-3 lin. long, very minutely puberulous. Basal 

 bracts 3, connate at the base, broadly ovate, rounded at the apex, 

 coriaceous, glabrous or nearly so, at length falling off and leaving an 

 orbicular plate closely appressed to the receptacle. Ostiole small, 

 not at all prominent ; bracts few and small, all descending into the 

 receptacle. Male flowers subsessile ; perianth-segments obovate, 

 membranous, glabrous. Anther solitary, subsessile. Female flowers 

 sessile ; perianth short. Achene subglobose, smooth ; style shorter 

 than the achene, with a large oblong stigma.- — Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 

 C. 162, t. 8 G-J ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 1007 ; Warb. in 

 Warb. & De Wild. Fie. Fl. Congo, 15, t. xiv. figs. 1-4, incl. vars. 

 glabripes and angustifolia, Warb. I.e. ; Mildbr. & Burret in Engl. 



