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name '* Nyedua " on the Gold Coast is applied to Ficus Vogelii; 

 the native name Armitage explains (Report on Rubber Trees 

 and Vines ; End. in Letter Col. Office to Director Kew, Nov. 30th, 

 1898) means ^' to grow round " and hence suggestive of its 

 epiphytical nature ; it differs from the more valuable ** Nyedua " 

 in having ovate-orbicular or nearly orbicular leaves, 



A tree 20-25 ft. high densely frondose all over and even from 

 a little above the base ; trunk nearly a foot in diam. Angola 

 (Hiern, Cat. Welw, Afr. PI. i. p. 999). 



Ficus Vallis-Choudae, Delile; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 2, 



p. 103. 



III. — Ferret & Gahnier, Voy. Abyss. Atlas Bot. t. 1 ; Miquel, 

 Afr. Vigge-Boomen, t. 2A {Sycomorus Schimperiana) ; Warburg 

 & De Wildeman, Ficus Fl. Congo, t. 23. 



Vernac, names,- — Baurin Kiashi (Katagum, Dalziel) ; Ndahi 

 (Sierra Leone, Scott Elliot). 



Nupe, Katagum in N. Nigeria and widely spread m Tropical 

 Africa, on the West Coast from Sierra Leone to the Cameroons 

 and extending through the Nile Land — Abyssinia, L^ganda, &c. 

 to the Belgian Congo and East Africa. 



Bark eaten with kola, Sierra Leone (Scott ElUot, Herb. Kew ; 

 Col. Rep. Misc. No. 3, 1893, p. 40 — F. trachyphylla). Figs large, 



edible, Nupe (Barter, Herb. KeAv). 



A tree, 40 ft. high, Nupe (Barter, I.e.) ; a small tree by bush 



streams, Katagum (Dalziel, Herb, Kew). 



Ficus vemiculosa, Warb.; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. Sect, 2, p. 114. 



Kontagora, Nupe in Nigeria, and also known from the 

 Cameroons, Angola, Shari region, L^ganda, Gazaland, Nyasa- 

 land, Portuguese E. Africa, and Rhodesia. 



Figs turning red, eaten hy the negroes, Angola (Hiern, Cat*. 



Afr 



15-25 



or more, or when occurring m swampy ground often a small shrub 

 with straight unbranched stem (FL Trop. Afr. Lc.) ; an unbranched 

 plant, 3 ft. covering deep morasses with its thickly matted roots 

 and creei^ing stems, Nupe (Barter, No. 1317, Herb. Kew); a 

 caespitose undershrub mth creeping root-stock, about 2 ft. high, 

 stem reddish purple and scarlet, not uncommon, but found only 

 in wet and humid situations together with grasses, Angola 

 (Gossweiler, No. 1006, Herb. Kew) and a large tree not uncom- 

 monly above 80 ft. high and 3-10 ft. in diam. branches spreading, 

 aerial slender, blood-red, Angola (Hiern, I.e.). 



Ficus Vogeliana, Miq. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI, Sect. 2, p. 94. 



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Lagos (a var. latifolia, Hutchinson), Oban in S. Nigeria, and 



also Ivory Coast, Cameroons, Fernando Po and Spanish Guinea. 

 Wood used by the natives to make soap, Ambas Bay (Mann^ 

 Herb. Kew). 



A tree, 40-50 ft. high (Mann, I.e.). 



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