632 



Fi 



Herb. Ke 



Voc. p. 15); figs edible, Somaliland (Hildebrandt, Herb. Kew). 

 A large tree, grows only near water, found at 3000-5000 ft 

 alt., SomaUIand {Thompson, Herb. Kew), tree with droopinc^ 

 branches, growing on granite hills, Kilba country (Dalziel Herb 

 Kew) or rocky hills, Yola Province, N. Nigeria (Dalziel, Hausa 

 Eot Voc. p. 15), on rocks, Nyellim, Central Shari (ChevaUer, 

 Herb. Kew) and on granite, Jebelem Hill, White Nile, Sudan 

 (Broun, Herb. Kew). 



Ficus Thonningii, Blume; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 2, p. 187. 



III. — Hooker, London Journ. Bot. vi. 1847, t 22 f A 

 (Urostigma Schimperi) ; vii. 1848, t. 13, f. C (C/. Thonningii) • 

 Notizbl. Bot. Gart. BerKn, v. 1908, t. 2 {F. Rocco) ; Engl. Pflan. 



C. t. 8, ff. A-F {F. chlamydodora) ; Engl. & Drude 

 Veg. Erde, ix. p. 664, t. 36 (habit). 



Vernac. wawe*.— Chediya (Hausa, Dalziel) ; Chida or 

 Chedia (Sokoto, Katagum, Dalziel); Rokko (Monbuttu-land, 



Afr 



^/ 



Kata 



in Tropical Africa from Sierra Leone in the West to Nyasaland 

 and Mozambique in the East. 



Bark used for making cloths (MUdbraed, Afrik Ficus in 

 Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xlvi. 1911-12, p. 173), figs edible— see note 



gnaphalocarpa) 



medium 



40 ft. liigh ; largely grown 

 Herb. Kew) ; a shady tree 



Kew) ,,.x....o^.x 



considers that this tree together with F. gnaphalocarpa la v ) 

 belong to the most stately trees of Tropical Africa both on 

 account of their large-leaved and widely-extended heads with 

 brick-red branches, as well as for the abundance of their peach- 

 coloured figs— somewhat sweet and tolerably juicy— with which 



'"" twice a year (Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. PI i t. qor 



F. psilosoga). 



Ficus umbellata, Vahl : Fl. Trop. Afr 



(F 



III.— Warhmg & De Wildeman, Ficus Fl. Con^o t 2 

 megalodisca). ° ' ' 



Fmiac. names.-Yendi (Hausa, Lamb); Nyedua (Gold 

 €oast, Armttage) ; Gongwe (Sierra Leone, Scott Elliot) 



Bida m N. Nigeria and has also been collected in French 

 Gmnea, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Togoland, Cameroons, French 

 Congo, Belgian Congo and Angola. 



There are numerous edible figs amongst the wild forms of 

 Ficus, usually called " Gongo " or " Gongwe " in ^,'*.r.a t 

 (Scott ElUot, Col. Rep. Mil No. 3, 1893^'p. 40) ''" 



TMs species-apparently of Uttle importance-is mentioned 

 here for the above reason and also because the same native 



