625 



Landien, Medan, Sumatra, l.c, viii, 1904, pp. 673-676. — ■ — 

 " Ficns elastka in Angola/' Gossweiler, Lc. ix. 1905, pp. 581— 



584. " Wie Vervielfaltigt man den Karetbaum {Ficus elastica^ 



Berkhout-Wageningen, I.e. x. 1906, pp. 505-516. The Culti- 

 vation of Ficus elastka : The India Rubber of the East, Claud 

 Bald, pp. 1-32 (W. Thacker & Co. London & Thacker, Spink 



& Co. Calcutta, 1906). Ficus elastica : Its Natural Growth & 



Artificial Propagation : With a Description of the Method of 

 Tapping the Tree and of the Preparation of Its Rubber for the 

 Market, Coventry, Forest Bull. No. 4, 1906, pp. 1-35, illustrated 



(Supdt, Govt. Printing, Calcutta, 1906). '' Assam Rubber and 



Its Commercial Prospects, Mann, in Agric. Journ, India, i. 1906^ 

 pp. 390-398. — — '' The Tapping of Assam Rubber {Ficus elastka),''' 



Mann, I.e. ii. 1907, pp. 277-279, ** Ficus elastica,'' in Comm. 



Prod, India, Watt, pp. 651-655 (John Murray, London, 1908). 



" Ficus elastica-caoutchouc plant — Rangoon," in Bull. Agric. 



Congo Beige, i. 1910, pp. 254-256,—" Rambong Rubber 

 {Ficus elastica)," in Report, Bot. St. Dominica, 1916-1911, 



pp. 7-8. '* Einiges uber-Gewinnung und Bereitung des Kaut- 



schuks von Ficus elastica, van Gelder, in Der Tropenpflanzer- 



XV, 1911, pp. 651-660. ''Ficus;' in The Whole Art of 



Rubber Growing, Wicherley, pp. 85-91 (The West Strand Pub- 

 lishing Co. Ltd^London, 1911). "Rubber of Ficus elastka"' 



in Col. Rep. Misc. No. 82, 1912, pp. 336-342; Madras, Assam 



Gold Coast, Southern Nigeria (1909) & Seychelles. '' Ficus 



elastica " from Southern Nigeria," in Bull. Imp. Inst, x. 1912, 



pp. 208-209, with analysis. '' The Assam Rubber Tree 



{Ficus elastica)" in Rubber : Its Sources, Cultivation and 

 Preparation, Brown, pp. 227-234, 



Ficus elegans, Miq. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. Sect, 2, p. 128, 



///. — Hooker, London, Journ. Bot. vii. 1848, t, 13 A, (leaf 

 Urostigma elegans). 



Vernac. name, — Abba (Lagos, Millen). 



Lagos and also known from the Gold Coast, Togoland and 

 the Cameroons* 



Figs edible, Gold Coast (Johnson, No. 559, Herb. Kew). 



A tree about 40 ft. high, Krobo Plains, Gold Coast (Johnson, 

 I.e.) ; common in and around Lagos (ilillen, Herb. Kew). 



Ficus eriobotryoides, Kunth & BoucM; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. 



Sect. 2, p. 160. 



Asaba District, Nigeria and in Upper Guinea from Sierra 



Cameroons, m 



Kew) 



4 N 



A tree 20-30 ft. high, sometimes much larger. Common in 

 lages, Kumasi, juice sticky (Cummins, Herb. Kew). . Has 



been cultivated in gardens (Chatsworth) as F. Brassii and (Kew) 



as F. Neumanni. 



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