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linear style. Stamens absent. Male inflorescence not seen in good condition, but what were found were once-forked, each part being 8 c.m. long, and linear. The 
timber is valuable for cutting up and is durable, and the trunks are so much used as dug-out boats of the largest size that these are spoken of by the same name as the 
tree, viz., Magundo. Found at Inharreme (extra-tropical) and more frequently throughout the forests of Magenja da Costa and Nhamacurra. Sim 5386. 
Plate LXXII. i, Leaf-branch ; 2, Fertile inflorescence ; 3, Tree, general aspect ; 4, Stipule ; 5, Male inflorescence ; 6, Flower, x 10 ; 7, Same, opened out ; 8, Pistil, x 40. 
M. spinosa. (New species.) 1 Vern. names— 4, Pambula ; 6, 7, Mbulu. A large scandent shrub, sometimes forming a bush, sometimes overtopping large trees and 
forming a considerable stem. Side branches mostly aborted into stout leaf-bearing spines 2-8 c.m. long. Leaves alternate, elliptical, pointed 4-8 c.m. long, 2 5-4 
c.m. wide; petioles slender 1-1-5 c.m. long ; fertile inflorescence sub-globose, sessile, axillary, 2-3 c.m. diameter, many-flowered; it exudes latex when cut, and is 
said to be finally red and edible. Flowers sessile; perianth of 4 succulent, compressed flat-topped segments ; stigma subulate 15-2 c.m. long ; seed erect, hard, 
exalbuminous. Male inflorescence not seen. Abundant near Lourenzo Marques, present but less plentiful throughout the Province. This has a considerable 
general resemblance to the Osage Orange (Macluria aurantiaca). Sim 6143. 
Plate LXXIV. B. i, Fruiting branch ; 2, Flower, x 2 ; 3, Seed, x 5. 
20S. FICUS. A large and very natural genus, including trees, shrubs and sub-shrubs, having in common the arrangement of the numerous flowers within a common axillary 
receptacle, popularly known as a fig, and also the presence of milky juice, sometimes yielding rubber. Flowers minute, dioecious or monoecious, in the latter case 
both sexes within r fig. Perianth thinly membranous, irregularly 3-5 fid. Stamens 3 in the male flower. In female flower, ovary i-celled, ovule pendulous, style 
lateral. Seeds small, hard, included in the receptacle, which softens when ripe and becomes the fig, edible in some species. A large number of well-known trees 
belong to this genus, including the Banyan (F. indica), the India-rubber tree (F. elastica) and the common fig (F. carica). Owing to the absence or scattered nature 
of the literature in this genus, and the advantage of having a complete set of the species of even this one Province, I have been compelled here, more than in regard 
to any other genus, to figure and describe under new names species which possibly are described already in works inaccessible to me meantime, or in which the 
descriptions are too meagre for identification. The variation in every character within almost every species render herbarium work practically useless here ; it is 
only by personal knowledge of each species and its range of characters that the limitation of species can be satisfactorily done, and my belief is that the list of names 
already in use — mostly for single dried specimens — contains an enormous number of duplicates. While I believe that every species here enumerated is a good 
species, and that every species seen by me in the Province is included here, I find them more easily distinguishable in the forest than in the herbarium, and that an 
exact synopsis, even of the groups, cannot be satisfactory. The only tree seen, not included here, which may be a Ficus is that described as Celtis (?) lactea. 
F. natalensis, Hochst. Vern. names — 4-8, 13-15, Uluzi or Umtombe. This tree usually starts life as an epiphyte in the fork of a branch, sending down roots from any 
height, which eventually enclose and kill the original tree, leaving the Ficus standing alone, the roots then forming a buttressed trunk 1 metre or more in diameter. 
Leaves stalked, obovate, entire, coriaceous, glabrous, rounded above or bluntly pointed, shining on the upper surface, paler and reticulated on the lower surface, 5-8 
c.m. long, 2 5-5 c.m. wide, evergreen. Figs axillary or on the old wood, solitary or several together, almost sessile, bracted at the base, nearly globose, pubescent or 
glabrescent, 1 c.m. diameter, many-flowered, hardly edible. Stipules 2-5-4 c.m. long, caducous, membranous, glabrous, greenish-white or pinkish. On old trees 
adventitious roots are produced abundantly from old wood well up the stem or branches, and hang in masses 1-2 metres long. It strikes easily, is used elsewhere as 
a street tree, and the bark supplies rough native cordage. Leaves occasionally opposite, on angular branches. The form most common here is var. pedunculata, 
having the figs on short peduncles. Sim 5729. 
Plate XC. A. 1, Fruiting twig ; 2, Occasional form with opposite leaves ; 3, Tree, general aspect, showing aerial roots. 
F. depauperata. (New species.)* A small tree with branches and twigs numerous, slender. Leaves numerous, 2-5-4 c.m. long, 1-1*5 c.m. wide, on slender petioles 
1-1-5 c - m * long. Leaves narrowly obovate or somewhat cuneate, widest near the apex, rounded or bluntly pointed, and at the base suddenly rounded, the lamina 
meeting on the upper surface of the petiole. Veins numerous, sub-parallel from the midrib to the margin, and with fine reticulation between. Figs 7 m.m. diameter 
' Milicia spinosa. (Sp. nov.) Frulcx mngnus scandens, plerumque ramulis spinosis validis 2-8 c.m. longis foliosis armatus ; foliis altcrnis ellipticis acutis, 4-8 c.m. longis, 2-5-4 c.m. latis ; petiolo tenui 
1-1 -5 c.m. longo ; inflorcsccntia feminca suhglobosa, 2-3 c.m. diam., sessili, floribus mullis sessilibus coinposita ; perianthii segment is carnosis compressis planis ; sligmate subulato, 1 -5-2 c.m. longo ; semine erecto, 
duro, albuminc nullo. Frcqucns prope Lourenzo Marques ; minus frequens per Provinciam. Sim 6143. Tab. LXXIV. B. 
Ficus depauperata. (Sp. nov.) Arbor parva glabra nisi parlibus junioribus cera punctatis ; ramis et ramulis multis tenuibus; foliis multis obovato-lanceolalis vel subcuneatis, 2-5-4 c.m. longis, I - 1 "5 
c.m. latis, oblusis vel subacutis, venis crcbris subparallalis ; petiolis tenuibus, 1-1-5 c.m. longis; fructu globoso, 7 m.m. lato vel minori, abrupte acuto, bractea crenata ad apicem pedunculi 3 m.m. longi 
circumdato. Formac depauperalrc F. natalensis similis, sed satis distincta. In littore arenoso, Lourenzo Marques. Sim 5031. Tab. XC. B. 
