Ficus] cxvii. MoKACE.f;. 1017 



veins patent, very slender ; petioles .V to 2 in. lonj,', ghilirous or 

 shortly pubescent ; stipules from a l»road base ovate, acuminate, 

 adpressedly hairy on the back, 2 in, long, deciduous ; receptacles 

 pyriforni or somewhat globose or contractetl into a neck at 

 the base, a little larger than the fruit of the common Service 

 tree, | to 1 in. long, glossy, red but marked all over with bright 

 green spots, glabrescent or .somewhat pulverulent, each containing 

 male female and gall flowers, bracteate at the base, on their 

 own branchlets; basal bracts small, connate below, forming a 

 triliil base to the receptacle ; o.stiole rather prominent, with small 

 obtuse bracts on the margin and at length e.xposing the almost 

 protruding chaffy l)ractt'oles from the upper part ot tin- receptacle ; 

 fruiting branchlets pendulous, proceeding from the trunk below 

 the leafy branches, racemo.se-paniculate ; male flowers com- 

 paratively few, each with 2 .stamens ; female flowers with the 

 style somewhat lateral near the apex of the ovary. 



Goi.rxco Alto.— Close to the banks of the Delilmboa rivulet; ti. 

 and fr. middle of April ISfjO, in company with Rojihia Ifxtl/ls Welw. 

 (herb. no. t')i")71) and A'Ar/.s- f/ni/wr/isla Jaci]. (Welw. herb. no. G6tj4). 

 Xo. 6410. No notes. In ti. and fr. No. 6422. 



This variety ought, perhaps, to be kept as a distinct species : it is 

 probably the species of F'h-hs, mentioned by Tedlie in Bowdich, Mission 

 to Ashantee, p. 371 (1819), as one of the medicinal plants of that 

 country, it being there called '• Adumba.'' 



The following No. possibly belongs here : — 



Island oi- St. Tho.mas.— A tree : trunkstraight but little branched ; 

 head widely spreading but sparingly dense ; nerves of the leaves and 

 stipules almost like those in the genus Miicarmifja (Euphorbiacete). 

 At the out.skirts of the more elevated forests near Monte Caffe' ; 

 without ff. Dec. 18G0. Negro name "Bebe." No. 467. 



29. F, cletlirophylla Hiern, sp. n. 



A tree, from lU to 30 ft. high or more; sap rather watery- 

 vi.scid than milky ; trunk whitish, .strictly erect ; branches smooth, 

 spreading, glabrous ; branchlets numerous, glabrescent except the 

 extremities, spreading ; habit like an alder ; leaves alternate, 

 evergi-een, ovate oval or ovate-oblong, obtuse nearly rounded or 

 sub-acuminate at the apex, nearly rounded emarginate or cordate 

 at the base, repand-dentate or irregularly toothed except near the 

 base, sub-chartaceous, deep green and with short hairs scattered 

 or chiefly along the midrib and lateral veins or glabrate above, 

 paler and usually with deutser hairs beneath, resembling tho.se of 

 an alder, 2^ to 10 in. long by 11 to 5 in. broad, trinerved at the 

 base ; principal lateral veins 5 to 7 on each side of the midrib 

 in addition to the basal nerves, with .some shorter intervening 

 ones, anastomosing, all rather .slender in relief beneath and 

 narrowly impressed above ; reticulation minute, delicate, with 

 small scales or minute dots in the interspaces ; petioles ranging 

 tip to 3^^ in. long, shortly pube.scent or puberulous ; stipules from 

 -a broad base ovate, acuminate, haiiy on the 1)ack, glabrous 

 within, deciduous, ^ to f in. long ; receptacles sometimes racemose- 



