1000 cxvii. MORACE^. [Ficus 



deciduous, glabrous ; receptacles hemispberical or subglobose or 

 slightly obovoid, an inch in diameter or rather more, often de- 

 pressed at the apex, 2 to 4 together, very viscid, exuding a vast 

 quantity of milk, subglabrous, ^vrinkled with small multiform 

 pits, turning greenish yellow when ripe, originating on the two- 

 year-old bi'anches in comparatively large thick fleshy tubercles 

 (almost as large as a small hazel nut) which at first cover them 

 and then after the autumn rains of April and May break open 

 and form the tubercular base around the ripe infructescence ; 

 basal bracts 2, opposite, broadly ovate, rarely bipartite ; ostiole 

 small, usually sunk in the depression at the apex of the receptacle, 

 with a narrow slit ; peduncles ^ to 1 in. long, semi- terete, puberu- 

 lous with very short almost papilliform hairs ; flowers not seen ; 

 fruit-perianth trifid ; style long ; stigma spongy-capitate ; fruit 

 elongated-obovoid. 



GoLUNdo Alto. — At the outskirts of forests in Sobato de Quilombo, 

 rather rare, ripe fruit, 1 May, 1851) ; also one specimen found in the 

 convent garden at Bango Aquitamba. No. 6413 and Coll. Cakp. 89i>- - 

 No notes. Without fl. or fr. Leaves rather larger, ranging to 10 in. 

 long by 6| in. broad, cordate at the base, and about lU lateral veins 

 on each side in addition to the basal ones. Perhaps this species. 

 No. 6423. 



Var. ? elliptica. 



Leaves elliptical, acuminate-cuspidate at the apex, obtusely 

 contracted to a rounded trinerved base, shortly pubescent along 

 the midrib and abovit 10 pairs of lateral veins beneath, 4 to 6 in. 

 long by 1§ to 2^ in. broad. 



PuNCrO Andoxgo. — A tree, 12 to 15 ft. high : trunk 4 to G in. thick, 

 divaricately branched from the height of 4 or 5 ft. ; branches tortuous ; 

 leaves thickly coriaceous, glossy ; receptacles pyriform-obovoid, 1 to 

 Ih in. long, greenish, rough with tolerably large white warts. In 

 rugged places by the lower rocks of Pedra Songue, rather rare ; young 

 fr. seen but not collected Jan. (or June) 1857, leafy specimens without 

 fi. or fr. collected April 1867. No. 6358. Perhaps a distinct species. 



No. 6350, without locality or notes, consists of leafy specimens, 

 perhaps of two different species, one of which rather resembles the 

 var. elliptica. 



4. F. auibeba Welw. ex Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 270 (1884). 



GoLUNGo Alto. — A very beautiful tree, 20 to 45 ft. high or rarely 

 GO to 80 ft., resembling in habit a gigantic Magnolia, strongly 

 lactescent with a white milk, much like F. dnstica Roxb. but tlie 

 leaves are not varnished-glossy above nor so glaucous beneath nor is 

 the midrib reddish as in that species ; branchlets furrowed, scarred, 

 pubescent and leafy at the apex, not slender ; leaves alternate, crowded, 

 entire, obovate-oval or oval-oblong, shortly abruptly and rather obtuselj^ 

 acuminate at the apex, nearly rounded or somewhat wedge-shaped at 

 the base, thickly coriaceous, hard, smooth, glabrous or n'early so above, 

 pubescent beneath with short whitish scarcely conspicuous hairs, sub- 

 glaucescent-green above, pale-l:)rown beneath, 5 to 14 in. long by 

 2 to 6j in. broad, iuconsj^icuously 3- or 5-nerved at or near the base ; 

 midrib impressed above, strongly raised and much broader than 

 the lateral veins beneath : lateral veins about 8 to 10 on each side in 



