1008 cxvii. MOEACB^. [Ficus- 



erect, leafy at the apex, almost all of them fruiting ; leaves coriaceous ; 

 stipules reddish ; receptacles spherical, green even when ripe, beset 

 with warts of various sizes, based with very broad bracts, impressedly 

 umbonate at the apex. In fissures of the more elevated rocks of the 

 prsesidium and at their summits, Pedra de Cazella ; fl. and fr. 18 Dec. 

 1856. No. 6361. 



The fungus n. 17, Pestalozzia depazeoides Welw. & Curr., I.e., p. 284,. 

 t. 17, fig. 14, grew on the leaves of this tree. 



MossAMEDES. — A small tree, decumbent after the manner of Pinus 

 mmitana Mill., copiously lactescent ; leaves evergreen, cordate- 

 elliptical, obtuse, coriaceous, glossy above. On the declivities of rocks 

 by the river Bero, about 4 leagues distant from the ocean ; without- 

 fl. or fr. July 1859. No. 6380. 



F. ? harbata Wall, is supposed to be identical with F. villosa Bl. 

 (1825). 



17. F. Carica L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 1059 (1753) ; Miq. AnnaL 

 Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. iii., p. 289 (1867); Ficalho, I.e., p. 271. 



GOLUNGO Alto. — Cultivated by plant fanciers in various but few 

 places ; it affords well tasted fruit but always inferior t(J that grown 

 in Europe. At Sange in Senhor Rodrigo's garden, where Welwitscb 

 saw it in fruit ; only in leaf, 14 Dec. 1854. No. 6388. 



It has also been introduced into the district of Pungo Andongo, 

 where it loses its leaves in the winter, that is, from June to September ; 

 but the leaves are not then deciduous in Golungo Alto ; in this respect 

 its behaviour is similar to Vitis vinifera L. 



18. F. pendula Welw. ex Van Tieghem in Bull. Soc; Bot. 

 France, xli. p. 486 (Sept. 1894), name {penduhis) only; non Link 

 (1822). 



Shrubby ; branches very long, sarmentose, climbing high and 

 far, pendulous ; the younger and fruiting branchlets nodding, all 

 ashy, turning purplish in the dried state, more or less hispid- 

 pubescent; internodes mostly i to S-^- in. long, the uppermost 

 ones shorter; leaves alternate, very rough above, tomentose 

 beneath, very unequal at the base, more or less denticulate on the 

 margin, rigidly herbaceous, 3 to 6 in. long by 1 to 4 in. broad, 

 obliquely ovate or lanceolate-oblong, acuminate at the apex, very 

 obtuse or semi-truncate at the trinerved base, heteromorphous, 

 undivided or irregularly 3- to 7-cleft with rounded sinuses ; lateral 

 veins about 5 to 7 on each side in addition to the basal nerves, 

 rather slender, hairy ; tertiary veins patent ; reticulation delicate j 

 interspaces roughly punctate above; petioles |- to -^ in. long, hispid- 

 pubescent or scabrid ; stipules ^ to ^ in. long, hispidulous on the 

 back, smooth within, from a broad base ovate, caducous ; recep- 

 tacles axillary, solitary, globose-pyriform, as large as a very big 

 cherry, f in. long or more, greenish red when ripe, beset outside 

 with small piUferous glands. Male and female flowers in the 

 same receptacle ; perianth 5-cleft ; male flowers next the ostiole ; 

 stamens 1 or 2, mostly solitary ; style short. Bracts at the base 

 of the receptacle small ; ostiole circular, surrounded with scarious 

 densely pilose rigid scales ; peduncle \ in. long, arched, with small 

 piliferous glands. 



