-Ficus] CXVII. M0EACEJ3. 1007 



14. F. Volkensii Warb., I.e., p. 167. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A small tree ; trunk bare of branches below ; 

 primary branches throwing out adventitious roots ; head small, very 

 densely spherical ; branchlets very numerous, intricately intertwined. 

 At the outskirts of the forests near Sange, rather rare ; without 

 receptacles, Nov. 1855. No. 6346. 



In the absence of the inflorescence this identification is doubtful ; 

 the foliage agrees fairly well with the type, which belongs to the 

 Usambara country ; but the petioles are usually rather shorter in 

 proportion to the length of the leaf-blades; they, however, vary from 

 ^ to 1^ in. long. 



15. r. persicifolia "Welw. ex Warb., I.e., p. 162; Engl. Pfl. 

 Ost-Afr., C, p. 162, t. 8. fig. G-J (1895). 



GoLUNao Alto. — A remarkably singular tree, with very bright 

 flowers, in its early youth parasitical after the fashion of Viscum 

 album L., growing on Adansonias ; afterwards in the adult state 

 throwing out its own roots close to the trunk of its host and 

 becoming a tree, embracing with the lower flattened-retioulate part of 

 its trunk that of its host and quasi-confluent with its surface but 

 above emancipated from it and forming a cylindrical trunk ; head 

 dense, with its branches and glossy leaves emulating the crown of its 

 host ; bark from whitish to grey, like that of the Adansonia ; leaves 

 lanceolate-spathulate, attenuate at the apex into an obtuse oblique 

 acumen, coriaceous ; receptacles as large as small peas, two together 

 in the axils of the leaves, exactly spherical, very crowded, turning red 

 when ripe, beset with elevated circular glands, borne on somewhat 

 curved peduncles of Jj- in. long, seated at the base on a cup-shaped 

 4- or rarely 5-cleft involucre with obtuse lobes. In the damp denser 

 forests near Bango at the base of the Quilombo mountains ; also on 

 the left bank of the Cuango rivulet near Canguerasange, by 

 Adansonias, not uncommon ; iv,. Nov. 1854. No. 6337- An elegant 

 tree, 15 to 25 ft. high ; head spreading widely ; branches patent or 

 even drooping ; leaves like those of Amygdahis Persica L., lanceolate- 

 oblong, glossy, drooping or pendulous ; ripe receptacles as large as 

 small peas, beset with distant whitish warts, solitary or two together 

 in the axils of the leaves, sessile or on peduncles of Jj- in. At the 

 margins of the less dense forests near N-delle and Quibongo and on 

 the elevated parts of Quilombo Quiacatubia, plentiful ; fr. Aug. 1855. 

 Native name " QuisacaWmba " or " Quisasalembia." No. 6386. At 

 Sange ; fr. end of Sept. 1855. No. 6417. A very elegant tree, 20 to 

 30 ft. high, with the habit of an almond ; trunk somewhat marked 

 with very obtuse angles ; branches patent ; leaves crowded chiefly at 

 the ends of the branchlets, coriaceous, in damp places evergreen ; 

 receptacles green. In the primitive forests of the Alto Queta moun- 

 tains, above N-della, in company with Symphonia globuUfera L.f . (ante, 

 p. 59, Welw. herb. no. 1052) ; nearly ripe fr. May 1856. No. 6412. 



The lichen n. 284 grew on the leaves of this tree near Bango and 

 Canguerasange in Nov. 1854. 



16. r. barbata Warb., I.e., p. 168; non Wall. List, n. 4576 (1831). 

 F. andongensis Welw. ex Welw & Curr. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 



xxvi. p. 284 (1868), without description, and ex Warb., I.e. F. 

 humilis Welw. ex Warb., I.e. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A strongly branched tree, 8 to 12 ft. high ; 

 branches quite patent or curved-ascending ; branchlets somewhat 



