627 



Ficus gllimosa, Delile; FL Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 2, p. 171. 



Vernac. nmnes. — Kadeji (Katagum, Dalziel) ; Kawuru (Sokoto, 

 Dalziel) ; Kela (Golo, Sudan^ Broun), 



Nupe, Katagiim, Sokoto, Yola in N, Nigeria and in Upper 

 Guinea from Senegal to the- Cameroons; also in Eritrea, 

 Abyssinia> Sudan^ Angola and the Congo region. ; ' 



Bark used for tanning, Bahr-el-Ghazal, Sudan (Broun, Herb. 

 Kew),* sweet fruit eaten (I.e.); figs turning red and succulent 

 when ripe, Yola (Dalziel, Herb. Kew). 



A large tree : 40-50 ft. fruit small, thickly covering the 

 branches, Nupe (Barter, Herb. Kew); 25 ft. high, -with milky 

 juice, bark silvery grey and very soft, Bahr-el-Ghazal (Broun, 

 I.e.), 



var. glaberrima, MartelU ; Fl. Trop. Afr. I.e. 



/^/._Hooker, Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 1848, t, 12, i. B 

 {Urostigma ritbicnndum). . . . 



m 



Vernac. names .—Ksiwnvi (Abinsi, Dalziel); Kill or Kele 



(Golo, Sudan, Broun), 



Nupe, Lokoja, Abinsi in N. Nigeria and excepting Angola 



distribution as for the type. * . 



Bark used for tanning, Sudan (Broun, Herb. Kew). 

 A tree, 30 ft. high, Nupe (Barter, Herb. Kew). 



i -f 



h * 



Flcus gnaphalocarpa, A, Rich,; R. Trop. Afr. VI, Sect. 2, 

 p. 104. 



/ZZ.— Miquel, Afr. Vijge-Boomen, t. 1, S. C {Sycomorus 

 tracJiyphyUa) ; t. 2, f. B {S, gnaphalocarpa). 



Vernac, names.—EaMve (Hausa, Dalziel) ; Opotto or Oajiottoa 

 (Yoruba, DutZgreon) ;Gemeise (Arabic, Muriel). ' ' '' 



Katagum, Abinsi, Yoruba in Nigeria, and also known from 



Gold Coast, French Guinea, Cameroons, Abyssinia, 



Seneganibia, Gold Coast, French Guinea, 



Uganda, Angola, Damaraland, the Sudan, Egypt and East 



Africa. 



Yields a. latex: which is discoloured pink by the sap of the 

 tree with which . it becomes mixed in tapping ; boiled and 

 allowed to cool the product is a reddish hardened substance, 

 somewhat resembling gutta-percha in appearance, exported by 

 the Niger Companv (Dudgeon, No. 67, 1907, Herb. Kew; Agricl 



. W. Afr. p. 123). Figs edible (Dalziel, Hausa, Bot. 



Voc. p. 14). 



Trees laden twice a year with an abundance- of peach- 

 coloured figs, tolerably juicy, somewhat sweet and used, by 

 several colonists for the extraction of a ver^ excellent spirit, 

 tasting like a superior gin and suggested by Welwitsch as a 

 profitable industry (Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. PI. i. p. 99 



F. irachyphylla), " ,' . , 



A large tree, one of the coinmonest in the country, Abinsi in 

 i^igeria (Dalziel, Herb: Kew): a spreading tree, 5()-60 ft. high 

 open plains in Acacia forest, S. .Angola (Pearson, Herb. Kew^, 



