1012 cxvii. MORACEiE. [Ficus 



often fasciculate or quasi-verticiUate, entire, ovate-oblong oval 

 or broadly lanceolate, shortly and obtusely acuminate or acute 

 or rounded at the apex, feebly 5- or 7-nerved at or near the 

 emarginate or rounded or subtruncate base, smooth, coriaceous, 

 more coriaceous and thick than in F. psUopoga Welw. herb. no. 

 6351 and much less so than in F. elastica Eoxb., deep green and 

 varnished-glossy above, paler and also somewhat shining beneath, 

 3i to 7 in. long by 1|- to 3 in. broad ; midrib thick, strongly 

 prominent, always deep rosy or red beneath ; principal lateral veins 

 about 8 to 10 on each side in addition to the basal nerves, slender, 

 anastomosing within the margin ; reticulation small, delicate, with 

 minute dots in the interspaces; petioles green, 1 to 3 in. long, 

 minutely dotted, broad-based ; bud-scales or stipules small, scarcely 

 ^ in. long, pale purplish, from a very broad base subulately 

 acuminate, but little viscid, caducous ; receptacles on the 2 to 5 

 year old branches and also on the trunk, 2 or 3 or even 6 to 8 

 together, but mostly quaternately umbellate, pyriform, as large 

 as a walnut, 1 to 1^ in. long, f to 1^ in. thick, from green to 

 yellowish, smooth, densely beset with small whitish scarcely 

 elevated spots ; only female and gall flowers seen in the receptacles 

 examined ; style long, slender ; peduncles flattened, dilated, 1 in. 

 long ; bracts at the base of the receptacle deciduous ; those of the 

 ostiole small, deciduous. 



GoLTJNGO Alto. — In the primitive forests of Qnisuculo in Sobato 

 Bango, and in Sobato Quilombo ; fr. Sept. and Nov. 1854 ; also at 

 Sange, fr. end of Sept. 1865. No. 6338 and Coll. Cakp. 900. Without 

 receptacles. No. 6il9b. 



24. F. Sycomorus L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 1059 (1753); Oliv. & 

 Girant in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. p. 149. t. 99 (1875) ; Ficalho, 

 PI. rteis, p. 271 (1884). 



Sycomorus cmtiquorwm Gasparr. Eicerch. Caprif. e Fie. p. 86 

 (1845) ; Miq. Afrik. Vijge-Boom. p. 9 (1849). 



Var. prodigiosa (Welw. ms. in herb.). 



A very ornamental tree, 20 to 35 ft. high, glabrous except the 

 buds ; trunk straight or oblique, 1 to 2^ ft. in diameter, branched 

 a little above the base ; branches patent, crowded, intricate ; 

 head evergreen, broadly spreading, rather lax ; leaves broadly 

 oval or somewhat ovate-oval, obtuse or rounded at the apex, 

 nearly rounded or cordate and trinerved at the base, coriaceous, 

 smooth, pale or deep green above, pale green and glaucescent or 

 somewhat coloured beneath, rather glossy on both faces, 2 to 5 in. 

 long by 1^ to 3| in. broad, entire or subrepand; lateral veins 

 2 or 3 on each side in addition to the basal nerves, inconspicuous 

 above, whitish and in clear relief beneath, anastomosing near the 

 margin, delicately and transversely venulose ; net-veins incon- 

 spicuous ; petioles thick, cylindrical, somewhat fleshy, transversely 

 wrinkled, ^ to 2 in. long, turning reddish; stipules ovate- 

 triangular, about J in. long, pubescent on the back, caducous ; 

 receptacles pyriform, racemose-paniculate on their own leafless 



