Ficus.] cxxiiic. MORACEiE (Hutchiiison). 215 



entire, subcoriaceous, dull on both surfaces, glabrous and t'losely 

 reticulate above, shortly pubescent on the veins beneath ; midrib 

 flat above, very thick below, about 2J lin. broad at the base, gradually 

 narrowed to the apex ; lateral nerves 9-10 on each side, spreading 

 at an angle of about 60°, looped, prominent below, distinct above ; 

 tertiary nerves wavy ; veins very close and prominent below, of the 

 same colour as the epidermis of the leaf ; petiole about 2 in. long 

 on the specimen seen but probably longer, about J in. thick, 

 minutely puberulous. Further characters not known. 

 South Central. Belgian Congo : Sigmate village. Cahra, 3G ! 



Described by the author from two leaves only ; evidently allied to F. linhii, 

 Warh. 



178. F. citharexifolia, Kotschy ex Miq. in Ann. Mus. Luad.- 

 Bat. iii. 232. 



Described from a garden plant, Africa being suggested by Miquel as its place 

 of origin. 



179. F. lutea, Vahl, Enum. ii. 185. A rather tall tree, spreading ; 

 branches sparse or somewhat whorled ; branchlets glabrous. 

 Leaves sparse, ovate-oblong, acuminate, submarginate at the base, 

 4-8 in. long, coriaceous, with whitish nerves, finely reticulate, pale 

 green below, glabrous ; petiole about one-third the length of the 

 leaves. Receptacles axillary, paired, globose, sessile, scarcely the 

 size of a cherry, with a bifid umbo at the apex, yelloAv. Basal 

 bracts 4. 



Upper Guinea: without precise locality, T//^?2w?»7. 

 The type of this species appears to have been lost. 



180. F. rugosa, G. Don in Loud. Hort. Brit. 416, name onh/. 

 Africa suggested as native country. 



181. F rupium, Dinter, Deutsch. Siidiv. Afr. 54. A tree up to 

 40 ft. high with grey-white stem. Leaves like those of a cherry, 

 but long-acuminate, drooping. Two-year-old wood often thickly 

 covered with edible figs the size of a strawberry. 



Lower Guinea. Damaraland : Salem, Loakop River, Okahandja and other 

 places, D inter. 



No specimen seen at Berlin and not accounted for in Mildbraed & Burret'.s 

 revision ; probably one of the group Fasriculatre. 



\). BOSQUEIOPSIS, De Wild, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2mp 

 ser. 1. 839 ; Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. li. 435. 



Flowers moncecious, inserted inside a globose-campanulate open 

 androgynous or unisexual receptacle. Male flowers crowded, mixed 



