1018 cxvii. MOEACE/B. [Ficus- 



paniculate on their own branchlets with the panicles pendulous 

 from the lower part of the trunk very numerous closely and 

 intricately intermixed, sometimes on the same tree solitary in the 

 axils of the leaves on the ultimate branchlets, containing male- 

 female and gall flowers in the same receptacles, spherical or 

 somewhat pyriform, as large as a moderate-sized cherry or f to 

 1 in. long, shortly pedunculate, usually 2 together, rarely several 

 springing from the same point, pendulous, when ripe turning 

 red, soft, delicately punctulate, pubescent or subglabrate, viscid, 

 juicy, insipid, very grateful to wild birds ; pulp somewhat sweet ;. 

 fruiting branchlets much branched, a foot long and more, at first- 

 erect-spreading, afterwards as the fruit ripens pendulous and 

 usually completely clothing the trunk about 9 ft. from the 

 ground ; peduncles y^ to -^ in. long, pubescent ; bracts at th& 

 base of the receptacles small, pubescent ; ostiole somewhat 

 prominent, with short ovate apiculate glabrous bracteoles ; male 

 flowers confined to the neighbourhood of the ostiole; perianth- 

 lobes oblong ; stamens (in one flower) 4, or solitary ; anthers 

 oblong ; female flowers with trifid perianths, the lobes acute j 

 style rather long, arising from one side near the top of the ovary ; 

 gall flowers on flattened-winged lanceolate pedicels. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — By streams in Sobato de Bunjba, Bango, etc. .;: 

 fl. and fr. Dec. 1854 ; at the Quiapoze stream in Sobata Bumba ; fl. 

 and fr. May 1855. No. 6335. In marshy spongy places at the banks 

 of streams, plentiful ; at the Quiapoze rivulet, ' without fl. or f r. 

 Nov. 1854. No. 6341. By streams near Quibige in Sobato de Bumba,. 

 sporadic ; fl. and fr. May 1855. No. 6342. At Carengue among the 

 Queta mountains ; without fl. or fr. July 1856. Apparently this^ 

 species. No. 6414. 



It was apparently on the living leaves of No. 6335 that the Fungus 

 n. 2, Phyllachora irregularis A. L. Sm. in Journ. Bot. 1898, p. 179, 

 grew among the Alto Queta mountains in March 1856. " N-guiriri " 

 is the native name of a tree referred in Welwitsch's mss. to this species. 



The two following Nos. should be compared with this species : — ■ 

 GoLTjNGO Alto. — A small, broadly frondose tree, with the habit of 



an Alnus ; trunk and branches lactescent. At the margins of the 



rivulet Quango near Ganguerasange ; without receptacles 25 Sept. 1854. 



No. 63356. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Fresh leafy shoots from the trunk of a tree 



burnt down. Near Cimeterio, Sange ; without receptacles, middle 



of Sept, 1855. No. 6408. 



30. F. sidifolia Welw. ms. in herb., sp. n. 



A huge tree, 30 to 70 ft. high ; trunk 1^ to 2^ ft. in diameter, 

 divided a little above the base into tortuous twisted branches, 

 clothed with a reddish ferruginous bark ; branchlets smooth, 

 purplish, glabrescent, leafy, hirsute at the apex ; leaves alternate, 

 broadly oval or ovate-rotund, unequal-sided, shortly acuminate- 

 apiculate at the apex, deeply cordate at the 5 -nerved base, rigidly 

 chartaceous, repand-denticulate, dark green hispid and scabrid 

 above, paler hispid and minutely punctate beneath, 3 to 10 in. 

 long by 2 J to 8 in. broad, deciduous; lateral veins 4 or 5 on eachi 



