Ficm] CXVII. HORACES. 1011 



sap watery, viscid ; bark grey ; branchlets scabrid ; leaves alter- 

 nate, ovate or somewhat oval, shortly acuminate at the apex, 

 rounded or emarginate at the base, firmly membranous, very 

 scabrous on both faces, not pubescent, denticulate or repand along 

 the general outline except near the base, somewhat glossy above 

 with a peculiar lustre, paler beneath, deeply or acutely palmate- 

 lobed in the case of young plants up to the third to fifth year of 

 age, 2 to 6 in. long by 1 to 4 in. broad, trinerved at the base ; 

 principal veins about 3 or 4 On each side in addition to the basal 

 nerves, strongly marked beneath, feeble above, their branches more 

 or less transverse and passing by degrees into a delicate but not 

 conspicuous reticulation ; petioles ^ to If- in. long, scabrous ; 

 stipules scabrid on the back, broadest at the base, lanceolate, 

 smooth inside, acute, pallid, ^ to i in. long, deciduous ; receptacles 

 spherical, a Httle smaller than a hazel nut, about -^ in. in diameter 

 or less, scabrid, in pairs, pedunculate, on the branchlets or young 

 lateral shoots, from yellow to red when ripe, 4-braoteate with two 

 of the bracts attached to the base and the other two opposite to 

 them and attached near the middle of the receptacle ; osteole 

 closed with 3 to 5 small ovate obtuse bracts ; peduncles from J- to 

 less than ^ in. long, scabrid, often bracteate with short obtuse 

 bracts. All the receptacles examined had female flowers only, 

 with long slender styles and stigmas. 



GOLUNGO Alto. — In the more elevated forests and at the sides of 

 hUls about Bango, Canguerasange, Oambondo, and Trombeta, plentiful ; 

 fl. 3, 7, and 25 Nov. 1854. No. 6387. A tree, at the Governor's house 

 at Sange, supposed to be ornamental ; fl. beginning of Oct. 1855. 

 No. 6411. 



The extremely rough leaves are used for polishing purposes and 

 called " Lixa " ; the tree is called " Lima " (a file). The fungus n. 7/6, 

 Phyllachora repens Saoc, grew on the leaves. 



The branches, even when a foot thick, readily take root, when 

 driven into the ground ; the trees afford excellent shade, and on tkis 

 account they are frequently used for avenues, etc., in public places. 

 The wood is good and white ; the natives of Golungo Alto call it 

 " Muoacasa." 



This is probably the species of Ficus referred to in Bowdich's 

 Mission to Ashantee (1819), p. 445, and locally named "Egoogoo" ; 

 the leaves were used in planing wood, polishing and cleaning various 

 articles of household furniture, and feel like emery paper. 



It is difiBcult to separate this species from F. asperifolia Miq., I.e., 

 1. 15, fig. B, especially as in No. 6387 the leaves are polymorphous ; the 

 perianth lobes are ciliolate, and in this respect agree with the figure 

 quoted above for F. exaspexata. With the original description Vahl's 

 trivial name is misprinted axasperata, but this is corrected. I.e., p. 402, 

 and in the index at the end of the volume it appears as corrected. 



23. F. brachylepis Welw. ms. in herb., sp. n. 



A tall or . moderate-sized tree, glabrous throughout, very 

 copiously milky, with widely spreading head ; branches patent ; 

 branchlets spreading, smooth, green, dusky in the dried state, 

 often quasi-verticillate by the approximation of the nodes and in 

 this way fasciculate, leafy towards the apex ; leaves alternate and 



