ADDENDA. 357 



ostiole, l-l in. indiani., yellowish -green outside, marked with a few shining 

 spots. Ostiole with 2 lanceolate obtuse 4 lin.-long bracts pendulous within 

 the receptacle. Flowers sessile or pedunculate, surrounded by scarious 

 acicular bracts ; ovary sessile, spherical. Male flowers few, in'^erted at 

 the base and apex of the receptacle ; stamens with a short filament, sur- 

 rounded by 3 acute scarious sepals. Achenes rugose. 



Upper Guinea. French Guinea : Futa Jallon ; around Mamou, Soya, Jan. 

 1909, Chevalier, 20372. 



Specimen not seen ; the author marks its relation to F. Arkbudu, Warb., to 

 which species, from the description, it runs down in our key and to which it Is 

 evidently very closely alhed. 



142a. Ficus bangouanensis, A. Chev. in Bull Soc. Bot. France, IxL 

 Mdm. 8e, 300. A tree 75-95 ft. high, with a cylindric trunk 45-60 ft. high, 

 H-4 ft. in circumference ; bark of the trunk reddish, smooth ; branches 

 spreading, forming a head ; young branchlets slender, glabrous or very 

 slightly puberulous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, ovate, subcordate at the 

 base, slightly narrowed and obtuse at the apex, 4-6 in. long,2 ^3 in. 

 broad, leathery, slightly undulate on the margin, dark green on the upper 

 surface, glaucous -green below, glabrous ; midrib prominent above, much 

 so below ; lateral nerves 7-10 on each side of the midrib, the lower 

 two pairs from the base, prominent below, slightly conspicuous above ; 

 petiole 1-1;\ in. long, subcylmdric, finely' channelled above, probably 

 puberulous in a young state ; stipules ovate-subulate, imbricate, 3—4 lin. 

 long, slightly pubescent outside, falling off before the opening of the 

 leaves. Receptacles pedunculate, solitary or paired in the leaf-axiN or 

 from where the leavas have fallen, spherical, l—^.^ in. in diaui., yellow i^h- 

 green, white-spotted, papillose all over but not pubescent ; peduncle 

 slender, J-?, in. long ; involucral bracts 3, ovate-orbicular, about ^\, in. 

 diam., puberulous outside. Ostiole \ in. in diiim., with numerous oyate- 

 orbiculnr bracts produced into an umbo ; walls of receptacle hrm and 

 somewhat sclerotic. Flowers very crowded, the males not seen, the female 

 pedicellate or sessile, small, with a very oblique style. Achenes small. 



Upper Guinea. Ivory Coast : Morenou, Nov. 1900, Chrralifr, 22444. 



Specimen not seen ; stated by the author to be allied to F. unibdlaln, Mi(|. 

 According to our arrangement of the 8|MH'ies it should be placed next to /'. 

 Kfrstiiigii, Warb., from which l)y the description alone it d(H\s not apjH-ar to Ix- 

 easily separated. 



14a. DECORSELLA, A. Chev. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France. Ixi. .Af6m. 8e, 

 297 (1916). fMouACE.i:.] 



Flowers dioecious or monoecious ? Male flowers not known. Female 

 flowers numerous, inserted on the upper side of a dilated and three-branchwi 

 pedunculate receptacle borne in the axil of a leaf, fasciculate or solitary, 

 sessile, very minute, arisuig from 3 irregular swellings on both the upixr and 

 lower surfaces of the receptacle ; bract eoles scarious, very minute. Calyx 

 of 4-5 small imbricate sepals apj)ressed to the ovary. Ovary concave 

 above, without a distijict style or stigma. Ovule at first campylotropous, 

 then anatropous. Fruit drupaceous, pedunculate, " nucleus " uo<xly. 



