1014 CXVII. MOEACEiE. [Ficus 



Var. polybotrya. 



A tree, 20 ft. high, lactescent ; the trunk and older branches 

 laden with very copious fruiting branchlets ; leafy branchlets 

 dusky and glabrescent except the hairy pallid tips, frondose 

 towards the apex; leaves caducous at the time of the young 

 flower-receptacles, but developed afresh as the fruit-receptacles 

 ripen, alternate, ovate or oval, obtuse or shortly and obtusely 

 acuminate at the apex, somewhat unequal and emarginate or 

 obtuse at the trinerved base, firmly coriaceous, obtusely toothed 

 or repand on the margin, dark green and glabrous above, brown 

 and tomenteUous beneath, 2J to 4J in. by IJ to 3 in. broad ; 

 lateral veins erect-patent, 3 to 5 on each side in addition to the 

 basal nerves, all as well as the midrib in relief and hairy beneath ; 

 tertiary veins patent ; net-veins minute, impressed ; petioles i to 

 1^ in. long, broad-based, puberulous ; stipules from a broad base 

 ovate, hairy on the back, ^ to |^ in. long, caducous ; flowering 

 branchlets 5 to 6 in. long or more, paniculately divided ; recep- 

 tacles subsessile or on short pedicels, tomentellous with pallid 

 short hairs, on our specimens small and young. 



GrOLUNGO Alto.^ — ^In damp places near Menha Lula in Sobato 

 Mussengue ; young fl. May 1865. No. 6343. 



The foliage somewhat resembles that of Ficus cleihrophylla. 



25. F. trachyphylla Fenzl in Flora 1844, p. 311 ; Warb., I.e., 

 p. 153. 



Sycomorus trachyphylla Miq. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 

 p. 110 (1848), and Afrik. Vijge-Boom p. 11. t. 1, fig. C (1849). 



Zenza do Golungo. — A small tree, 12 to 15 ft. high, probably a 

 young one ; bark from whitish to reddish ; branchlets brick-red. In 

 palm groves by the river Bengo from the Convent of St. Anthony to 

 Punda, sporadic ; without fl. or fr. end of Dec. 1853. Determination 

 doubtful. No, 6353. 



Golungo Alto. — A tree 20 ft. high ; branches patent, curved or 

 even flexuous. In wooded thickets on the left-hand side of the road 

 leading to Ambaca, near the virgin forest of Quibango ; unripe 

 fr. April 1856. Native name "Mucuso." Determination doubtful. 

 No. 6415. 



MossAMEDES. — A tree, 20 to 25 ft. high ; head ovoid, elongated, 

 densely frondose ; leaves persistent, rough ; receptacles pyriform, as 

 large as a walnut, tomentose, scarcely well tasted, In secondary 

 thickets and in places formerly wooded at the mouth of the river 

 Giraul, occasional ; fl. and fr. July 1869. Determination doubtful. 

 No. 6378. A tree, 15 to 26 ft. high ; head ovoid-dilated. Here and 

 there at the banks of the river Bero, at Oavalheiros, without recep- 

 tacles, July 1859. Perhaps a variety of this species. No. 6382. 



HuiLLA. — A tree 20 to 30 ft. high ; head broadly ovoid ; branches 

 and branchlets patent, more or less tortuous ; receptacles on the fresh 

 branchlets, rarely on the older branches, pear-shaped, j in. long, hoary, 

 silky-tomentose, axillary, solitary, braoteate at the base ; peduncle \ in. 

 long, robust, somewhat rufous, puberulous. In forests about LopoUo, 

 6000 to 5504 ft. alt., sporadic ; fl. and unripe fr. Feb. 1860. No. 6374. 



In Golungo Alto Loranthus Belvisii DC. (Welw. herb. nn. 5279, 

 5280 ; ante, p. 934), grew as a parasite on a species of fig, perhaps 



