1004 cxvii. HORACES. [Ficus 



Fl. p. 521 (1849), and Afrik. Vijge-Boom. p. 37 (1849). F. 

 Lucanda Welw. ex Ficalho PI. Uteis, p. 269 (1884). 



A tree, 20 to 35 ft. high, but usually met with as a much- 

 branched shrub of 5 to 6 ft. and then closely resembling in its 

 foliage a young erect plant of ivy, glabrous, not lactescent but 

 exuding a watery viscid sap ; branches patent, very crowded ; 

 bark grey-dusky or ashy ; branchlets spreading ascending or 

 somewhat erect, rambling, pale green or somewhat dusky towards 

 the apex ; leaves alternate, entire, elliptical or somewhat oval, 

 cuspidate with a long acumen at the apex, obtusely contracted 

 or nearly rounded at the base, rigidly and thinly coriaceous, very 

 bright and deep green or varnished -glossy above, paler beneath, 

 nearly always conduplicate and pendulous, quivering, 2|^ to b\ in. 

 long by 1 to 2|- in. broad ; 3-nerved at or near the base ; midrib 

 clearly raised beneath, narrowly depressed above ; principal lateral 

 veins about 3 or 4 on each side, slender, with inconspicuous 

 intervening shorter ones ; net- veins slender ; petioles -I to 4f in. 

 long, rather slender ; stipules about \ in. long or more, broad- 

 based, glabrous, caducous; receptacles very abundant, 1 or 2 

 together and often with a third one springing from the same point 

 on the thicker branches, sometimes also on the trunk where it is 

 a foot in diameter and on the slender green branches, at first 

 green, afterwards turning yellow, pyriform, or on the younger 

 branches cerasiform, |- to |^ in. long, | to i in. in diameter, each 

 containing male, female, and gall flowers, beset outside with small 

 distant hemispherical warts, faintly ribbed and veined ; basal 

 bracts short, connate below ; ostiole with small bracts ; peduncles 

 ^ to f in. long, arching upwards ; internal bracteoles narrow ; 

 stamen 1 ; stigma elongated. 



GoLXJNGO Alto. — In Sobato de Bango Quilombo and about Muria, 

 occasional ; ripe fr. Jan. 1855. No. 6391. At the outskirts of 

 secondary woods near Banza de Bango ; without fl. or fr. Jan. 1855. 

 No. 6393. Chiefly in the elevated forests of Quilombo Bango, more 

 rarely by thickets near Trombeta ; unripe fr. Aug. 1855. No. 6392. 



The native doctors call it " Lucanda " ; it is one of species of the 

 genus called by the collective name of " Molemba." A very small 

 species of Cynips chooses this plant by preference for its abode. 



9. P. verrueulosa Warb., I.e., p. 166. 



Htjilla. — A tree i of moderate size, more than 25 ft. high ; leaves 

 pallid beneath and -densely punctate but not glaucous ; receptacles 

 greenish. In the denser forests between Monino and Eme ; fl. and 

 unripe fr. April 1860. No. 6375. A large tree, not uncommonly 

 above 80 ft. high and 3 to 10 ft. in diameter ; branches spreading ; 

 aerial roots slender, blood-red ; fruit turning red, eaten by the negroes. 

 In the Monino forests by streams ; fl. and fr. May 1860. No. 6366. 



10. F. praeruptorum Hiern, sp. n. 



An elegant tree, 15 to 20 ft. high, perhaps at length taller, 

 with the habit of a laurel ; branches and leafy branchlets erect- 

 spreading, turning reddish-brown and glabrous, nodulose ; head 

 dense; young shoots pubescent with short whitish spreading 



