Ficus\ CXVII. HORACES. 1001 



addition to the basal nerves, sub-parallel, anastomosing near the margin ; 

 net veins intricate, close, in relief beneath ; petioles angular, puberulous, 

 IJ to 4 in. long, of nearly the same thickness throughout ; receptacles 

 very crowded, proceeding from the thicker branches and even from 

 the trunk, obovoid, warted, as large as a pigeon's egg, shortly pedun- 

 culate. In dense thickets among the Queta mountains, sporadic ; in 

 leaf, without fl. or fr. extant on the specimens, beginning of June 

 1855. The fruit was seen by Welwitsch. No. 6399. 



Dr. Warburg, l.c., p. 155, regarded this No. as probably a form of 

 F. Vogelii (Miq.). The native name is "Quibeba." The lichens nos. 

 ■213, 252, 381, grew on the trunks of F. Quibeba. 



This tree supplies a tough and firm white wood, which is manu- 

 factured into bowls and such-like domestic articles ; the trunk is 

 straight and usually 4- to 6-gonal as if consisting of 4 to 6 trees grown 

 together (as occurs also in several other specimens of this genus) ; and 

 the head forms a broad majestic crown. The tree frequently has 

 growing upon its branches plants of Hariota parasitica O. Kuntze 

 {ante, p. 407), Loranthus, and orchids. 



5. F. callescens Hiern, sp. n. 



A small tree, 12 to 20 ft. high, very much branched, ever- 

 green ; trunk and branches sparingly or copiously lactescent ; 

 branches spreading, dusky or ashy, glabrous, smooth, somewhat 

 Angular ; branchlets pendulous after the habit of Salix habylonica 

 L., clavate-thickened towards the apex, densely clothed with the 

 persistent stipules, leafy; leaves alternate, obversely lanceolate 

 ■or obovate, cuspidate or spiculate at the apex, wedge-shaped to 

 the unicostate base, very thick, dryly coriaceous, hard, very 

 rigid, glabrous, green glossy smooth and punctate with raised 

 points above, pallid and delicately reticulate beneath, sometimes 

 not lactescent and even in the living state nearly dry, 3 to 7^ in. 

 long by 1 to 2|- in. broad ; principal lateral veins 6 to 10 on 

 ■each side of the strong midrib, slender, clearly marked beneath, 

 inconspicuous above, spreading ; net veins pale, sunk in com- 

 paratively broad depressions which are often punctate virith raised 

 points ; interspaces beneath slightly in relief rather darker and 

 minutely dotted ; petioles broad, ^ to \.\ in. long, sometimes not 

 lactescent, smooth, pulverulent with minute dots or glands ; 

 stipules ovate, -j- to f in. long, reddish, soon turning brown, very 

 abundant, imbricate, pulverulent-puberulous on the back, 

 delicately pluricostate ; receptacles rare, pyriform, hollowed or 

 depressed about the apex, obtusely umbonate, shortly hairy and 

 scrobiculate outside, f to \\ in. long, thick-skinned ; interior 

 .about -I in. long by J to f in. in diameter ; basal bracts ^ to i in. 

 long, stipuliform ; coat inside somewhat porous or spongy but 

 firm; peduncles f to 1|- in. long, axillary, solitary; male, female, 

 aiid neuter flowers in the same receptacle ; perianth 4-partite ; 

 segments narrow ; ovary narrow ; style terminal, rather long ; 

 stigma bipartite ; stamens solitary ; filament long, slender ; 

 anther short, dusky. 



GOLTJNGO Alto. — By springs in very dense thickets between the 

 .streams Quango and Quiapoze, rather rare ; fr. Nov. 1854. No. 6395. 

 In dense wooded places at the Quiquele-quele spring near Sange ; 



