Ficus] CXVII. MORACEiE. 997 



at the somewhat unequal base, 3- or G-uerwd at or near the liase, 

 coriaceous, somt-what j^lossy and deep ;;nMMi above, p.-ilii- lieneath, 

 smooth, ghil)rous or nearly so, 4 to 7 in. long by l! to.")| in. broad ; 

 principal lateral veins about 10 to 12 on each side in addition to 

 theljasal nerves, slender ; reticulation minute ; inters{)aces minutely 

 scaly-papillose; petioles robust, shortly pubescent, l.V to L*{ in. 

 long ; stipules caducous, broad-ba.sed, apparently rather small ; 

 receptacles axillary, sul)sessile, suliglobose, about ^' in. in diameter, 

 shortly pubescent, .solitary or two together, the one e.xamined 

 containing male flowers and barren female ones ; basal bracts 

 puberulous on the back, united into a small shortly cleft cup ; 

 ostiole small ; male flowers with a hyaline unerpially 3- to 

 5-partite or -cleft perianth ; stamen solitary, the filaments united 

 l)elow to an abortive pistillo<le ; barren female flowcis with a 

 short hyaline 4- or 5-cleft perianth or similar to that of the 

 male llowers. 



Bi'MBo.— In the more elevated forests of Serra da Xella (Cbao da 

 Xella) ; male fl. and unripe fr. Oct. 18.09. No. 6365. 



This belongs to the section Palaiomorphe of King. 



The following No. should be compared with this .species, but I 

 have not had the opportunity of examining the structure of the 

 receptacle : — 



(iuMNGo Ai.i'o. — A strongly lactescent tree of moderate size ; 

 brandies spreading, also nearly horizontal ; branchlets smooth, 

 glabrous ; leaves alternate, oval or broadly ovate, entire or slightly 

 sinuous-repand, very shortly and obtusely or abruptly acuminatt- at 

 the apex, broadly and unequally or slightly hollowed at the 'i-nerved 

 ba.se, coriaceous, smooth, glabrous, glauce.sceut-green above, light ureeu 

 beneath, 9 to 11 in. long by .')] to 7 in. broad ; i)rincipal lateral veins 

 G to 12 on each side in addition to the basal nerves, in clear relief 

 beneath : tertiary and net-veins close, in relief beneath : interspaces 

 minutely scaly-pulverulent beneath, minutely pitted above ; petioles 

 stout, smooth, glabrous or puberulous, 2| to 3j in. long ; receptacles 

 large, the size of a pigeon's egg, 1 ' in. long by ^ in. thick, ellipsoidal, 

 puberulous, subsessile, dusky, laterally bractcate at the l)ase. In 

 shady forests around Bango, Quilombo, and Canguerasanye, not un- 

 common : also on sunny declivities ; fr. Nov. 1854. No. 6398. 



The fungus n. 74, Pht/l/arhora rpj^'im Sacc, A. L. Sm. in Journ. Bot. 

 189S, p. 178, grew on the leaves of a species of Ficus, probabh' this 

 plant, at Sange in Nov. 1854 and July 1850. 



The following three Nos. apparently difier in various particulars 

 and by having large stipules ; the two la.st of them were con- 

 sidered Ijy Welwitseh as possibly varieties of his F. pseudo-ehtstica ; 

 the foliage and stipules suggest /'. si/rhuji/olia Warb. in Engl. 

 Bot. Jahrb. xx. p. 170 (1894), non F. syrinijafolia Kuuth and 

 Bouche Ind. 8om. Berol. (184G) p, 35, but the lateral veins of the 

 leaves are rather more numerous : — 



A glabrous, parasitical tree, 30 to 50 ft. high ; trunk dimor- 

 phous, the young ones flattened and confluent with the mother 

 plant, the older ones cylindrical and emancipated from the matrix, 

 patently branched, suddenly becoming round ami thick and then 



