488 0. Wauburg: 



(m. üec), in silvis haud rara: Duss n. 1412; St. Vincent in silvis 

 montis St. Andrews m. Dec. : Eggers n. 6670, in silvis siibcomnuinis 

 150 — 660 m. alt.: Smith n. 747. 



33. Ficus venusta Kth. et Bebe, ramulis haud crassis teretibus 

 in sicco siibsulcatis, innovationibus glabris; stipulis interdum magnis 

 caducis glabris; foliis membranaceis utrinque glabris haud scabridis, late 

 ellipticis, basi rotundatis, apice subapiculatis fere acutis, basi 3- v. sub- 

 5-plinerviis, venis haud multis patentibus, petiolis saepe haud brevibus; 

 receptaculis . . . 



Ficus venusta Kth. et Bche.f Ind. sem. hört. Berol. 1846 p. 16 

 n. 17 : Griseh. Cat. p. 57; A. Rieh, in Sagra Cuh. p. 221. 



Urostigina venustum Miq.! in Hook. Land. Journ. Bot. VI (1847) 

 p. 538; Walp. Ann. I p. 676. 



Ramuli 2 — 3 mm. lati, in sicco fusci. Stipulae lYg — 4 cm. 

 longae, lanceolatae acntae, in sicco fuscescentes. Petioli 2 — 5 cm. longi, 

 1 — IY2 lö™- lati, in sicco obscuri; folia 8 — 23 mm. longa, 4 — 10 cm. 

 lata, in sicco viridia, costa in sicco utrinque purpurea, nervis basalibus 

 brevibus patentibus, suprabasalibus oblique ascendentibus, venis utrinque 

 ca. 7 fere strictis, ante marginem vix arcuate conjunctis, interspersis tenuio- 

 ribus subparallelis utrinque vix prominulis, nervis tertiariis supra xix subtus 

 haud prominulis, reticulatione subtus valde distincta. 



Hab. in Cuba: Otto (niis. sem. in hört. Berol., ubi culta). 



Obs. Species F. Krugianae valde affinis, diffexi; foliis tenuioribus, 

 latioribus, venis minoribus. 



Species generis Ficus in India occidentali cultae. 



34. Ficus earica L. Sp. pl. (1753) p. 1059; Lim. Hort. Jam. I 

 p. 293; Mayc. Barb. p. 406; Eggers! St. Croix p. 147 et St. Croix and 



Virg. Isl. ji. 95; Duss Fl. Ant. fran^. p. 155. 



Fig-tree Hughes Nat. Hisi. Barbad. (1750) p. 187. 



St. Croix: Eggers n. 570 (sterile, in hb. Haun.); Guadeloupe et 

 Martinique ex Duss; Barbados ex Mayc. 



35. Ficus tiiictoria Forst, f. Prodr. (1786) p. 76; Lun. Hort. 

 Jam. I j). 296; 7\iss. Flor. Ant. II p. 54 t. 14 receptaculis cerasifor- 

 mibus fulvis sessilibus axillaribus vel ex axillis defoliatis nascenti- 

 bus nota. 



Ex Lun. in Jamaicae hortum Eastensem per navem „Providence" 

 importata, ex Tdssac e mari australi (Tahiti etc.) in Jamaicam et Sto. 

 Domingo introducta, a Tussag in horto botanico Jamaicensi et in Hort. 

 Paquetii in Sto. Domingo observata. 



Obs. In Flor. Br. W. Ind. (1859) a Grisebach erronee ad F. lentiginosam 

 Vahl referta. 



