1016 cxvii. MORACE^. [Ficus 



petioles measure li to 2 in. long. Miquel, I.e., places his species in 

 the section Sycomorus. 



The following two Nos. are possibly allied to F. senegalensis, 

 but their foliage is larger : — 



A tree, 12 to 25 ft. high or perhaps taller, sometimes parasitical, 

 exuding a very viscid milk; trunk straight, erect, bare below, 

 hirsute when young ; head hairy ; branches elongated, ascending, 

 hirsute, leafy ; leaves alternate, obovate or broadly oval, often 

 resembling in shape those of Nynvphma lutea L., very shortly 

 and obtusely apiculate at the apex, more or less cordate at the 

 5- or 7-nerved base, membranous or somewhat thick dry and rigid, 

 hirsute on both faces especially on the midrib and veins with 

 rather short rigid white hairs, deep green bright and somewhat 

 glaucescent above, paler beneath, large or even gigantic, 5^ to 

 14 in. long by i^ to 8^ in. broad or perhaps larger, nearly entire 

 or repand or near the base sinuous-dentate ; midrib broad, 

 tapering ; lateral veins slenderer, 7 to 9 on each side in addition 

 to the basal nerves ; tertiary veins patent, slender ; reticulation 

 minute, delicate ; interspaces pallid, microscopically scaly- 

 pulverulent ; petioles hirsute, stout, 1 to 5 in. long ; stipules 

 ovate-lanceolate, strongly acuminate, nearly glabrous, bloodred- 

 purple, ^ to 1^ in. long, deciduous ; receptacles not seen. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — In the dense primitive forests of the Queta 

 mountains in deep valleys close to rivulets, rather rare, parasitical on 

 ■Paeudospondias microcarpa Engl. (cf. ante, p. 176) ; without fl. or fr. 

 Jan. 1856. No. 6409. In the damp forests of deep valleys among 

 the Alto Queta mountains and in Sobato de Quilombo, sporadic ; at 

 the great cataract of the river Cuango, on the left bank ; without fl. 

 or fr. beginning of August 1855. No. 6347- 



28. F. eapensis Thunb. Dissert Fie. p. 13. n. 23 (1786). 



Sycomorus eapensis Miq. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. p. 113. 

 t. 3. fig. B (1848), and Afrik. Vijge-Boom. p. 14 (1849). 



Var. guineensis Miq. Annal. Bot. Ludg.-Bat. iii. p. 295 (1867). 



F. Lichtensteinii Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. ii. p. 451 (1822). 

 F. Brassii R. Br. ex Sabine in Trans. Hort. Soc. v. p. 448 (1844) ; 

 non Kunth & Bouche (1846). Sycomorus Cfuineensis Miq. in 

 Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. p. 112. t. 14. fig. B (1848), and in 

 Hook. Niger Fl. p. 523 (1849). 



A tree, 15 to 25 ft. high ; trunk bare of branches below, 

 6 to 12 in. in diameter, divaricately branched above ; branches 

 patent ; branchlets nodding-ascending, glabrate, leafy ; terminal 

 buds adpressedly hairy with pallid hairs ; leaves alternate, 

 coarsely dentate or repand, ovate or somewhat oval, mostly 

 acuminate at the apex, unequal trinerved and rounded or cordate 

 at the base, papery-coriaceous, deep green subglaucescent and 

 nearly glabrous above, browner and sometimes shortly pubescent 

 along the midrib and veins and minutely punctate with elevated 

 points beneath, 2 to 9^ in. long by 1 to 4J in. broad; lateral 

 veins about 4 to 6 on each side in addition to the basal nerves, 

 rather slender, in relief beneath, feebly anastomosing ; tertiary 



