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21. F. ureeolaris Welw. ms. in herb., sp. n. 



A copiously lactescent shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high or rather more, 

 branched from the base, or a small tree, with the aspect of 

 Trymatococcus ; branches virgate, patent, subterete or roundly- 

 angular, not pubescent, usually more or less scabrid, drab ; inter- 

 nodes mostly |- to 2 in. long; leaves alternate, elliptical or 

 somewhat oblong, narrowly cuspidate-acuminate at the apex, 

 very unequally contracted at the trinerved base, chartaceous- 

 coriaceous, . glabrous, subglaucous green and nearly smooth or 

 slightly rough above, pale green and very rough beneath, some- 

 what toothed or repand on the narrowly re volute margin, 

 4 to 10| in. long by li to 4 in. broad (or in the variety smaller); 

 the old ones and even the adult ones often nearly all pendulous ; 

 lateral veins about 6 to 8 on each side in addition to the basal 

 nerves, patent-arching, anastomosing, rather slender, scabrid and 

 in clear relief beneath, narrowly impressed above ; tertiary veins 

 patent ; net- veins slender ; interspaces minutely papillose-punctate 

 and scabrid beneath ; petioles f to -J in. long, scabrid, often bent 

 or flexuous, broad-based, channelled above ; stipules from a broad 

 base ovate, acute, scabrous on the back, ^ to |^ in. long, deciduous ; 

 receptacles axUlary, 2 or 3 together or solitary, shortly pedunculate, 

 urceolate-pisiform, widely gaping at the apex, scabrid, ^ to ^ in. 

 in diameter ; basal bracts small or obsolete ; osteole comparatively 

 large, ^ to -^^ in. in diameter, prominent. In the receptacles which 

 were examined only female flowers and neuter flowers or fruits 

 were found ; perianth 4- or 5-partite ; ovary smooth ; style short 

 or of moderate length, elongating in fruit, slender, lateral ; achenes 

 about -^ in. long, pale, shining ; stigma black or dusky. 



GOLUNGO Alto. — In mountainous places at the banks of the 

 rivulet Quiapoze near Golungo Alto, sparingly ; female fl. 23 Sept. 

 1854. No. 6390. In primitive forests by streams and in rather dry 

 shady places ; in the virgin forest of Quisuculo, fr. 8 Sept. 1855. 

 No. 6336. In primitive forests in Sobato de Bumba near Quibixe at 

 the river Gate ; female fl. Sept. 1855. No. 6394. By streams in the 

 shady parts of Mata de Quisuculo ; with ripe receptacles. 28 April, 1856. 

 No. 6402. 



Var. bumbana. 



Leaves 1 to 4|^ in. long by f to If in. long. 



GrOLUNGO Alto. — A shrub, 5 ft. high, very patently branched ; ripe 

 receptacles orange-red, pisiform. In the dense forests of Sobato de 

 Bumba ; fr. July 1856. No. 6403. 



On No. 6336 probably grew the lichens, n. 288, Lecidea exiguella 

 Wain., and also Strigula atrocarpa, S. hypothelia, S. africana, and 

 Asterothyrum Welwitschii. 



22. F. exasperata Vahl, Enum. PI. ii. pp. 197, 402, 409 (1806); 

 Miq. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. p. 231, t. 14, fig. C (1848), 

 and Afrik. Vijge-Boom. p. 21 (1849); non Eoxb. F. scabra Willd. 

 in M6m. Berol. 1798, p. 102, t. 2 (1801); non Forst. f. (1786), 

 nee Jacq. (1798). 



A tree, 20 to 40 ft. high, patently branched, loosely frondose ; 



