1002 cxvii. HORACES. [Ficus- 



without fr. Aug. 1855. No. 6385. At Quiquele-quele between Sange 

 and Bango Aquitamba ; fl. Aug. 185G. No. 6420. 



The lichen n. 287 grew on the leaves of this species at the spring 

 of Quiquele-quele in August 18.55. 



This is nearly related to F. Freti^sil Warb. I.e., p. 156, but the leaves 

 in our plant are more regularly wedgeshaped towards the base and are 

 smaller ; their venation is similar. 



The following No., with laurel-like foliage, differs frona F. 

 callescens by having the lateral veins of the leaves much more^ 

 numerous, etc. 



6. A huge tree, 50 to 80 ft. high, full of a thick milk; head 

 depressedly hemispherical, very broad ; branches spreading, 

 bending sometimes upwards sometimes downwards ; branchlets 

 ashy, smooth, glabrate or inconspicuously pulverulent, curving, 

 rigid, leafy especially towards the apex ; leaves alternate, entire, 

 obovate- oblong, obtusely subcuspidate at the apex, rounded or 

 obtusely wedgeshaped at the inconspicuously 3- or 5-nerved base, 

 coriaceous, hard, smooth, glabrous, very rigid, deep green glossy 

 and with elevated rounded points above, paler beneath, 4 to 

 7 in. long by 1^ to 2^ in. broad ; midrib thick, prominent 

 beneath ; lateral veins numerous, jiarallel, patent, slender ;. 

 reticulation minute, plainly marked beneath ; interspaces marked 

 beneath with small papillose points; petioles thick, ^ to |- in. 

 long, smooth ; stipules deltoid-ovate, glabrous, i to -i- in. long,, 

 caducous. 



GiJLUNGO Alto. — In mountainous places in Sobato de Bumba, not 

 plentiful ; without fl. or fr. 22 Oct. 1855. No. 6339. By the cross 

 road leading to Bango ; without fl. or fr. Sept. 1856. No. 6420/'. 



The fungus n. 75 Fhi/Uachora re/iens ^acc. (cf. A. L. Smith inJourn^ 

 Bot. 1898, p. 178), and the lichen n. 285 grew on the leaves of this fig 

 near Sange in May 1855 and Feb. 1856. 



7. F. microcarpa Vahl, Enum. PI. ii. p. 188 (1806) ; Thonn.. 

 in Danske Vidensk. Selsk. iii. p. 48 (1828); Miq. in Annal. Mus.. 

 Bot. Lugd.-Bat. iii. p. 288 (1867); non L. f. 



F. Thonningi Blume, Rumphia ii. p. 17 (18.36). Urostignm 

 Thonningii Miq. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. p. 557 (1847),, 

 vii. t. 13. fig. (1848), and in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 522 (1849), 

 and Afrik. Vijge-Boom. p. 38 (1849). 



Island of St. Thomas.— Without receptacles, Dec. 1860. Called 

 " Mussanda." The bark supplies a dye. No. 6405. 



The leafy branches agree well with a specimen with fruit in the 

 National Herbarium collected at the Cape Coast by Brass, which 

 appears to belong to this species, but I have not seen a type specimen. 



The following five Nos. may be compared with this species, but 

 some at least of them are apparently distinct. 



Zenza do Golungo. — A shrub. On a rock near Tanderachique ; 

 without receptacles, Sept 1857. No. 6400. 



This is probably the Ficux mentioned by Welwitsch in his diary 

 27 Aug. to 7 Sept. 1857. as a bush with a widely spreading head 

 thickly coriaceous leaves and pendulous or reflected fruit, occurring at 

 Tanderaxique, but very rare. 



