Ficus] CXVII. MOKACE.E. 1()(>.*3 



G(»MN(;o Ai.To.— A broadly frondose nearly glabrous treo of 

 moderate size, resembling a hnge ("amellia : branches spreading, 

 smooth ; branchlets leafy ; leaves alternate, broadly oval or sub- 

 rotund, rounded or obtusely narrowed at the apex, rounded or sonie- 

 wliat narrowed at the unequal obtuse 3- to 5-nerved base, closely 

 resembling those of Oiiinlliu jajxniird L., thickly coriaceous, smooth, 

 glabrous, entire, U to ;5 in. long by Ij to 2 in. broad, deep green 

 altove, pale green beneath ; lateral veins about (5 on each side in 

 addition to the basal nerves, slender, clearly marked but scarcely con- 

 spicuous, anastomosing within the margin : reticulation complex : 

 interspaces dotted above, minutely scaly-punctate beneath ; petiole* 

 glabrous, smooth, moderately robust, i.' to li^ in. long; stipules short, 

 convolute, acutely conical that is j)yramidately folded round the 

 petiole, hairy outside, deciduous. [n forests near Canguera.sange, 

 Bango, and Quilombo, sjioradic ; without receptacles, Nov. 18.')4. 

 Xo. 6340. 



Perhaps a distinct species. 



Pr\(;<> A\i)oN(;(). — A high climbing shrub; branches patently 

 recurved ; branchlets irregularly twiggy, somewhat erect or patent 

 or even recurved in the form of semicircles : leaves coriaceous, glossv, 

 very delicately tuberculate above, paler and with raised venation 

 beneath, 1 to 2 J in. long by l to 1^ in. broad ; petioles ^ to I in. long. 

 In the forest, in the clefts of the rocks of the pra;sidium at Cabondo ; 

 "without receptacles, Nov. 185G. Xo. 6363- 



This should also be compared with F. i-/injsoci nisu.'i "Welw. 



Flnco Aniiiimio. — A subglabrous, much branched shrub, ."> to 7 ft. 

 high ; branchlets densely leafy ; leaves alternate, obliquely oval. 

 obtu.se or rounded at the apex, unequal or sub-equal at the usually 

 obtuse or rounded base, penniveined, coriaceous, glossy, entire, ever- 

 green, 1 to 2 in. long by 5 to I in. broad ; lateral and net veins weak, 

 not conspicuous ; petioles ^ to 1 in. long. In elevated rocky places, 

 in Pedras de Cuinga, in company with .Ui/rolhuiiiiiHs tlitlnlli/i'Iiii.'^ 

 Welw. no. 1270 (ante, p. '631) ; without receptacles, March 1867. 

 Xo 6362. 



Perhaps a distinct species. 



Island or JIadkiija. — A small tree; branchlets glabrous, not 

 scabrid, leafy ; bark lenticellate, somewhat ashy and rimose ; leaves 

 alternate, entire, elliptical, somewhat oblique, shortly and obtusely 

 narrowed at the apex, obtuse and slightly emarginate on the upper 

 face at the feebly trinerved base, glabrous, smooth, thinly coriaceous, 

 not conspicuously penniveined, punctulate and minutely pitted on 

 both faces, dark green above, .slightly paler beneath, 2i^ to ;'>}, in. long 

 by 1 to li in. broad ; petioles dusky, glabrous, J to A in. long : 

 receptacle pisiform, glabrous, smooth, I in. in diameter, containing 

 numerous male and a few female flowers ; no gall-flowers seen ; 

 ostiole somewhat prominent, ^ in. in diameter ; basal bracts 2, 

 glabrous, short, broad, rounded ; male perianth shortly funnelshaped, 

 bluntly trigonous, _}.^ in. long, shortly pedicellate or .subsessile. 

 tripartite, the segments obovate, valvate ; stamen solitary : female 

 perianth .}^ in. long ; style short ; stigma longer, with a filiform 

 apical appendage. At Funchal ; fl. Aug. 1853. Xo. 6401. 



Perhaps an introduced tree. 



8. F. ottoniaefolia:Mi([.Ann.:\I us.Bot. Lugd.-Bat. iii. p. 2SS ( 1 sij? ). 



(Jrostuiiiia o(/niii(r/'oli>iiii Micp in Ifook. Loud. Journ. l'>ot. vi. 



p. 557 (1.S17), ct vii. t. 13, fig. B (1848). and in Hook. Niger 



