-Fiaus] cxvii. MORACE^. 1017 



■veins patent, very slender ; petioles |- to 2 in. long, glabrous or 

 shortly pubescent ; stipules from a broad base ovate, acuminate, 

 adpressedly hairy on the back, f in. long, deciduous ; receptacles 

 pyriform or somewhat globose or contracted into a neck at 

 the base, a little larger than the fruit of the common Service 

 tree, | to 1 in. long, glossy, red but marked all over with bright 

 ^reen spots, glabrescent or somewhat pulverulent, each containing 

 male female and gall flowers, bracteate at the base, on their 

 •own branchlets; basal bracts small, connate below, forming a 

 trifid base to the receptacle ; ostiole rather prominent, with small 

 obtuse bracts on the margin and at length exposing the almost 

 protruding chaffy bracteoles from the upper part of the receptacle ; 

 fruiting branchlets pendulous, proceeding from the trunk below 

 the leafy branches, racemose-paniculate ; male flowers com- 

 paratively few, each with 2 stamens ; female flowers with the 

 style somewhat lateral near the apex of the ovary. 



GOLUNGO Alto.— Close to the banks of the Del4mboa rivulet ; fl. 

 and fr. middle of April 1856, in company with Raphia textilis Welw. 

 ^herb. no. 6671) and Elceis guineensis Jaoq. (Welw. herb. no. 6664). 

 No. 6410. No notes. lu fl. and fr. No. 6422. 



This variety ought, perhaps, to be kept as a distinct species ; it is 

 probably the species of Ficus, mentioned by Tedlie in Bowdich, Mission 

 to Ashantee, p. 371 (1819), as one of the medicinal plants of that 

 ■country, it being there caUed " Adumba." 



The following No. possibly belongs here : — 



Island of St. Thomas. — A tree ; trunk straight but little branched ; 

 head widely spreading but sparingly dense ; nerves of the leaves and 

 stipules almost like those in the genus Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae). 

 At the outskirts of the more elevated forests near Monte Caff^ ; 

 without fl. Dec. 1860. Negro name "Bebe." No. 467. 



29. F. elethrophylla Hiern, sp. n. 



A tree, from 10 to 30 ft. high or more; sap rather watery- 

 viscid than milky ; trunk whitish, strictly erect ; branches smooth, 

 spreading, glabrous ; branchlets numerous, glabrescent except the 

 •extremities, spreading ; habit like an alder ; leaves alternate, 

 evergreen, ovate oval or ovate-oblong, obtuse nearly rounded or 

 sub-acuminate at the apex, nearly rounded emarginate or cordate 

 at the base, repand-dentate or irregularly toothed except near the 

 base, sub-chartaceous, deep green and with short hairs scattered 

 ■or chiefly along the midrib and lateral veins or glabrate above, 

 paler and usually with denser hairs beneath, resembling those of 

 an alder, 2|- to 10 in. long by li to 5 in. broad, trinerved at the 

 base ; principal lateral veins 5 to 7 on each side of the midrib 

 in addition to the basal nerves, with some shorter intervening 

 ■ones, anastomosing, aU rather slender in relief beneath and 

 narrowly impressed above ; reticulation ■ minute, delicate, with 

 small scales or minute dots in the interspaces ; petioles ranging 

 up to Sf in. long, shortly pubescent or puberulous ; stipules from 

 •a broad base ovate, acuminate, hairy on the back, glabrous 

 within, deciduous, f to f in. long ; receptacles sometimes racemose- 



