Ficiis\ ex VI I. MORACEiE. lOOl 



addition to the basal nerves, sub-parallel, anastomosing near the margin ; 

 net veins intricate, close, in relief beneatli ; petioles angular, puberulous, 

 1 j to 4 in. long, of nearly the same thickness throughout ; receptacles 

 very crowded, proceeding from the tliicker branches and even from 

 the trunk, obovoid, wartod, as largo as a pigeon's egg, shortly pedun- 

 culate. In dense thickets among the Queta mountain.s, sporadic : in 

 leaf, without H. or fr. extant on the specimens. l>eginning of June 

 laof). Tiie fruit was seen by Wehvitsch. \o. 6399. 



Dr. Warburg, !.<■.. p. I.'*."), regarded this \o. as probably a form of 

 F. Voijelii (Miq.). The native name is "Quibeba." The lichens nos. 

 ■213, 252, 381, grew on the trunks of /•'. ijidlwha. 



This tree supplies a tough and firm white wood, which is manu- 

 factured into l)o\vls and such-like domestic articles ; the trunk is 

 straight and usually 4- to (l-gonal as if consisting of 4 to (I trees grown 

 togetiier (as occurs also in several other specimens of this genus) ; and 

 the head forms a broad majestic crown. The tree frequently has 

 growing upon its branches plants of Ilnrintu /Kinixil/iit O. Kuntze 

 (a«/^, p. 407), LimnithiiH. and orchids. 



5. F. callescens llieni, sp. n. 



A small tree, 12 to 20 ft. high, very much branched, ever- 

 .green ; trunk and branches sparingly or copiously lactt scent ; 

 branches spreading, dusky or ashy, glabrous, smooth, somewhat 

 angular; branchlets pendulous after the habit of Salix Ixthi/lonica 

 L., clavate-thickened towards the apex, densely clothed with the 

 persistent stipules, leafy; leaves alternate, obversely lanceolate 

 or obovate, cuspidate or spiculate at the apex, wedge-shaped to 

 the unicostate base, very thick, dryly coriaceous, hard, very 

 rigid, glabrous, green glossy smooth and punctate with rai.sed 

 points above, pallid and delicately i-eticulate beneath, sometimes 

 not lactescent and even in the living state nearly dry, 3 to 7.', in. 

 long by 1 to 2] in. broad; principal lateral veins G to 10 on 

 each side of the strong midrib, slender, clearly marked beneath, 

 inconspicuous above, spreading ; net veins pale, sunk in com- 

 paratively broad depressions which are often punctate with raised 

 points ; interspaces beneath slightly in relief rather darker ami 

 minutely dotted ; petioles broad, i to 1^ in. long, sometimes not 

 lactescent, smooth, pulverulent with minute dots or glands ; 

 stipules ovate, -?7 to '(^ in. long, reddish, soon turning brown, very 

 abundant, imbricate, pulverulent-puberulous on the back, 

 delicately pluricostate ; receptacles rare, pyriform, hollowed or 

 depressed about the apex, obtusely umbonate, shortly hairy and 

 scrobiculate outside, ^ to \\- in. long, thick-skinned ; interior 

 about ^- in. long by ^- to -^ in. in diameter ; basal bracts \ to \ in. 

 long, stipuliform ; coat inside somewhat porous or spongy but 

 firm ; peduncles g to 1-?,- in. long, axillary, solitary; male, female, 

 and neuter flowers in the same receptacle; perianth 4-partite ; 

 segments narrow ; ovary narrow ; .style terminal, rather long ; 

 stigma bipartite ; stamens solitary ; filament long, slender ; 

 anther short, dusky. 



Gi)ijN(i() Ai.To. — By springs in very dense thickets between the 

 streams Cuango and Quiapoze, rather rare : fr. Nov. 1S54. Xo. 6395. 

 In dense wooded places at the Quiquele-quele spring near Sauge ; 



