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Cameroons, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Togoland and 

 French Gaboon. 



A tree up to 40 ft., grown for avenues, Bismarckburg, Togo- 

 land (Btittner). Grown in gardens in the United States, Berlin, 

 Brussels and the Royal Gardens, Kew, as a decorative plant ; 

 propagated by cuttings. In the Gardeners' Chronicle (I.e.) it is 

 stated that *' among large-leaved (20 in. x 8 in.) Ficuses this is 

 certainly one of the best yet introduced." 



Ficus Mucoso, Welw. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 2, p. 98. 

 Vernac. names, — Mukunyu or Mukonyu (Uganda, Dawe). 



Cameroons — Bipinde and cultivated in "the Botanic Garden 

 at Victoria; also known from Ivory Coast, Gold Coast, Uganda, 

 Gaboon, Angola, Belgian Congo, East Africa. 



Canoe-like troughs used in making banana beer are made 

 from this tree, Uganda (Dawe, Herb. Kew). 



10-12 



diameter, Ashanti (Cummins 



Herb- Kew) 



Ficus natalensis, Hochst. ; Fl. Trop. Air. VI. Sect. 2, p. 208. 



III.— ^im, For. Fl. & For. Res. Port. E. Afr. t. 90, f. A 

 {F, natdlensis, var. pedunculafa) . 



Vernac. names. — Sango (Uganda, Dawe) ; Uluzi, Umtombe 

 "(Port. E. Africa, Sim). 



Cameroons, Gold Coast, Fernando Po ; also in Lower Guinea, 

 Uganda, Mozambique District, Natal, &c. 



A source of the bark cloth of Uganda ; said to yield the best 

 cloths, sold amongst the natives at 2 rupees each (Dawe, No. 319, 



Herb. Kew) — Dawe (on specimen No. 286 in the Herbarium) 

 states that in Buddu, the " Kitubalu " (jP. Kitubaht, Hutchinson) 

 yields an inferior bark-cloth, planted only when other varieties 

 are unobtainable ; bark supplies a rough native cordage, 

 Portuguese East Africa (Sim, I.e. p. 98) who describes the fruit 

 a,s '' hardly edible." 



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Tree about 40 ft. high, Gold Coast (Johnson, Herb. Kew) 

 or a shrub 20-25 ft. high, on the beach, Fernando Po (Mann, 

 Herb. Kew). Sometimes an epiphyte beginning ''in the fork 

 of a branch and sending down roots from any height which 

 eventually enclose and kill the original tree, leaving the Ficus 

 standing alone, the roots then forming a buttressed trunk a 

 ^' metre or more in diameter ; on old trees adventitious roots are 

 ^^ produced abundantly from old wood well up the stem or 

 branches and hang in masses 1-2 metres long : it strikes easily 



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and is used as a street tree," Port. E. Africa (Sim, I.e.). There 

 is in the Museum at Kew, a specimen of Oil Palm trunk, from 

 Aburi, Gold Coast (Johnson, 1898) completely encircled by this 



Ficus, 



