Ficus] CXVII. MORAC K-K. 1019 



side in adilition to the basal nerves, si>rea(liii^'-ascen«liiig, nitlier 

 slender; petioles more or less hisjiid, stiM', 1,' to 7 in. long; 

 stipules broadly ovate, eiispidate, hispid at tlio base and along 

 tlie midrib, otherwise glabrate, {J to I in. long, caducous ; 

 receptacles (according to Wtlwitsch's ms.) as large as a moderate- 

 sized tig (of. F. Carica L.), somewhat smo<jth when ripe, 

 peach-coloured reddish, agreeably aromatic, soft, almost t'diblo, 

 scarcely sweet, paniculately clustered on their own branchlets 

 which proceed from the trunk and thicker l)raiich('s ; numerous 

 gall-Howers, several female (i)erhai>s abortive) Jiowci-s, and near 

 the apex a few male flowers present in the same recei^taclc ; 

 perianth of the male flowers tripartite, the segments broad 

 imbricate and enveloping tlie two stamens ; filaments short ; 

 anthers -^\ in. long ; perianth of the female flowers \\'ith three 

 linear-subulate segments ; style lateral, from the top of the ovary, 

 rather long. 



G<'iAN(;o Ai.To. — At the outskirts of primitive forests near Sange, 

 by the Bango road : Jan. 185G. No. 6407. No notes. "Without 

 receptacles. Xo. 6421. A small tree of (i to 8 ft., perhaps not fully 

 grown ; sip watery-viscid : habit of foliage like a Siihi or AlmtUnii ; 

 petioles ranging up to 3.j in. long. At the bush}- margins of forests in 

 Sobato de Bango and Sobato de Quiloml)0, rather sparingly ; without 

 receptacles, Dec. 1K54. No. 6345. Leaves \evy scabrous above : 

 petioles ij to l> in. long. By a rivulet in the valley on the northern 

 tract of the Cimeterio near Canguerasange : without receptacles, Oct. 

 1854. Perhaps a different species. No. 6348. Receptacle ovoid- or 

 clavate-pyriform, cinnabar-red, juicy, papillose-puljerulous outside, 

 1^ in. long by | in. thick, shortly bracteate at the base ; ostiole 

 prominent. At Sange ; fr. Feb. 1856. Coll. Carp. 898. 



The following No. possibly belongs here : — 



IsLANO OK Sr. Thomas. — A handsome tree : trunk about ft. in 

 diameter, 25 to 40 ft. high, used for making the negro canoes or small 

 boats ; wood smooth, whitish : branches tortuously spreading ; head 

 broadly ovoid or hemi-^pherical. In the more elevated forests of the 

 island ; without receptacles, Dec. 18G0. Called by the inhabitants 

 " Figo porro." No. 6406. 



0. BOSftUEIA Dup.-Th. e.x Baill. Adansonia iii. p. 338, t. 10 

 (18G3) ; IJentli. .t Hook. f. C4en. PI. iii. p. 370 {Bosquiea). 



Centroi/;/ne Welw. ex Benth. &, Hook, f., I.e. 



1. B. angolensis Ficallio, PI. Uteis, p. 271 (1884). 

 Cent)'0(ji/ite aiigolensis Welw., I.e. B. Wchrltschii Engl. Mon. 



Morac. African, p. 36 (1898). 



GoLUNco Alto. — A tree, usually 25 to 50 ft. high (a specimen seou 

 near the cataracts of the river Cuango was certainly more than ()0 f r. 

 high, with the trunk quite bare of branches up to nearly half its 

 height), sometimes lower ; head loosely pyramidal ; trunk when i>ld 

 bare below, divaricately branched and froiulose above : branches and 

 branchlets spreading or very patent ; branchlets ashy or dusky purple, 

 smooth ; young parts herbaceous-green or the buds dusky puri)le : old 

 parts exuding a resinous bitter .somewhat caustic and aromatic milk 

 which at first is whitish but quickly coagulates into a ruljicuud some- 



