212 cxxiiic. MORACEiE (Hutchinson). [Ficus- 



looped near the margin ; tertiary nerves and veins distinctly reticu- 

 late below, often impressed above ; petiole slender, |-2J in. long 

 ■with a single very narrow groove on the upper side, glabrous ; 

 stipules deciduous, ovate-lanceolate, subacute, about J in. long, 

 membranous, densely ciliate, otherwise glabrous, reddish-brown 

 when dry. Receptacles axillary, often crowded together on the 

 young shoots, mostly in pairs, pedunculate or nearly sessile, globose 

 or ovoid-globose, 3-4 lin. in diam., glabrous or very obscurely 

 puberulous ; peduncle 1-2 (rarely up to 4) lin. long, angular, glabrous 

 or nearly so. Basal bracts 3, connate at the base, ovate, obtuse, 

 about J lin. long, finely puberulous outside. Ostiole small, 2-lipped, 

 with no bracts visible from the outside ; bracts all descending into 

 the receptacle, the middk pair nearest the orifice larger than the others 

 and oblong, rounded at the apex, membranous, about f lin. long, 

 the others 'subulate-lanceolate, acute, membranous, all glabrous. 

 Male flowers few ; perianth-segments oblong-lanceolate, acute. 

 Stamen solitary. Female flowers subsessile ; perianth rather 

 short, membranous. Achene smooth ; style lateral, slender, about 

 as long as the achene, with an oblong thickened stigma. — Mildbr. & 

 Burret in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 255. F. Tsjela, Hochst. ex Miq. in Hook. 

 Lond. Journ. vi. 558 (spelt Tjiela). F. acrocarpa, Steud. ex Miq. I.e. 

 557. F. saligna, Hochst. ex Miq. I.e. 558. F. Bequcertii, Be Wild, 

 in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. Hi. 200. IJrostigma Dekdekena, Miq. in Hook. 

 Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 558. U. acrocar'pum, Miq. I.e. 557, t. xxii. b, 

 incl. var. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast, Evans, 4 ! Northern Nigeria : Yola, Dalziel, 

 148 ! Maigana, nea) Zaria, Lamb, 02 ! Cameroons : Musgu, Vogel, 54 ! 



Nile Land. Eritrea : Anseba River, near Keren, Schweinfurth, 761 ! gorge 

 of the Degerra River, Schveinfurth db Riva, 887 ! Abyssinia : Sholoda Moun- 

 tains, Schimper, 220 1 near Mai Dogale, Schimper, 627 ! 629 ! near Ferrokoba, 

 Schimper, 709 ! Mennewa, Schimper, 264 ! Sudan : Roseires, Cienkowsky, 130 ! 

 Muriel, 21 ! Kordofan : Fazokl, Kotschy, 473 ! Singukai, Muriel, 151 ! Khor 

 Ganna, near Billing, Broun, 1313 ! 1314 ! Uganda : Entebbe, Bagshawe, 689 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : between Gambos Fort and the Mission station, 

 Pearson, 2455 ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Elizabeth ville, Bequaert, 449 ! 



171. P. Mildbraedii, Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1915, 344. A 

 large epiphytic shrub ; branchlets angular, about J in. in diam. near 

 the apex, glabrous. Leaves oblong or oblong- oblanceolate, caudate- 

 acuminate (acumen obtuse or subacute, J-J in. long), narrowed to 

 an obtuse base, 4-61 in. long, 1J-2J in. broad, entire, rigidly coria- 

 ceous, dull and glabrous on both surfaces ; midrib flat above, very 

 prominent and straw-coloured below, IJ lin. broad at the base, 

 gi'adually tapered and fading away towards the apex of the blade ; 

 lateral nerves 9-11 on each side of the midrib, diverging from it almost 

 at right angles, slender, distinct below, looped about 1 J lin. from the 

 margin ; tertiary nerves and veins forming a close somewhat straw- 

 coloured reticulation below ; petiole J-lJ in. long, fairly stout, 



