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Forest Flora of Portuguese East Africa. 
F scabra (New species )' Vtrn. mm«— io-ii, Mtabo and Mutabu. A large tree, frequent in the forests throughout Magenja da Costa, Nhatnacurra and Quehmane 
top'ica ) leaves U cm. long, s .,o cm. wide, cordate-acute, irregularly serrate, at first thin in texture, densely velvety-pubescent and glaucous on the under 
surfac! and pubescent on the upper surface, especially on the veins, but afterwards hard and firm in texture, rough on the upper surface, and pubescent below. 
£ , . s c m. long, pubescent or hairy ; young growth hairy, especially round the base of the petiole. St.pules ,-a c.m long, concave, fa y membranaceous 
densely pubescent. Fig 2-5 c.m. diameter, nearly globose on a 1 c.m. peduncle, from old and young wood. Bark smooth, greenish. The fruit is not eaten, but 
the rough old leaves are used to rub up Assegais, &c. Sim 5644. 
Plate XCV. C. 
F. silicea. (New species.) 3 Vet -ti. name— 6, Barowre. Leaves ovate-pointed, 7-10 c.m. long, 5-7 c.m. wide, irregularly and bluntly crenate, 3-veined at the base, of 
firm* texture and set with hard points. Fruit nearly globular or somewhat flattened at stalk and apex 12-20 m.m. diameter, roughly hairy, occasionally bursting. 
Florets rather large, with 5-fid perianth. Stipules 2-5 c.m. long. Often a shrub 1-2 metres high, occasionally a tree 6-10 metres high. Frequent from Chai-chai to 
Inhambane. The leaves are used by the M’Chopes to polish assegais, assegai-handles, spoons, walking sticks, &c., and I saw a nice collection of local timber 
specimens at Quisico dressed with this material only. Sim 5381. 
Plate LXXXVII. 1, Leaf-branch ; 2, Fruiting twig ; 3, Section of fruit ; 4. Fruit as it occasionally bursts ; 5, Floret, x 5; 6, Tree and bush, showing general aspect (much reduced). 
20(1. ARTOCARPUS. Large trees with alternate, simple, entire or lobed leaves, intra-petiolar stipules, and the inflorescence practically an inverted fig, the florets being 
closely packed outside the conical or globose receptacle, and forming together a large or huge composite fruit. Several, including the Jack fruit, are considered 
edible; others are timber trees. 
A. (?) africana. (New species.) 3 Vern. names— 4, Tondo; 10, Nunali; 15, Ndhlebe. A large glabrous tree with thin milky juice. Leaves alternate, 15-25 c.m. long, 
5-8 c.m. wide, firm, elliptic-lanceolate from a rounded or somewhat cordate base, often slightly oblique, with midrib and lateral veins raised on the lower surface. 
Stipules intra-petiolar, convolute, 2 cm. long, caducous. Fruit seen only immature, up to 4 c.m. diameter, in which condition it is a shortly stalked globose fig-like 
body, axillary or from old wood, bracted below, and apparently made up of minute florets, each rising from the base of a covering peltate scale, the scales unequal 
in their stage of development, some 6 m.m. diameter, others quite small, giving the whole a glandular appearance. I was informed however by the natives that the 
fruit grows to be 15 c.m. or more long, and is finally edible. Tree not uncommon along streams in Magenja da Costa (tropical) and found also in the Maputa 
Lebombos and in Lourenzo Marques District. Sim 5999. 
Plate XXXII. i, Leaves and young fruils; 2, Floret and peltate scale, x 10. 
INCOMPLETE. Group II. 
Ovary usually 2-3-4 celled; ovules usually 1 or 2 in each cell. 
FAMILY LIV.-EUPHORBIACEE 
Flowers unisexual, either monoecious or dioecious, sometimes crowded and flower-like in an involucre. Perianth very various, always inferior when present; sometimes 
absent altogether, sometimes the calyx and petals both present, or one of these. Male flowers— stamens 1, few, or many, free or more or less connate, 2-celled (or occasionally 
' Ficus scabra. (Sp. nov.) Arbor grnndis ; corticc levi, viridulo ; foliis cordatis acutis 7-12 c.m. longis, 5-10 c.m. latis, inrequaliler serratis, junioribus tenuibus, pagina inferiore glauca pubescentia 
densa velutina obsita, pagina supcriorc pubescente, vetustioribus firmis duris pagina inferiore pubescente, superiore scabra ; petiolo 1*5 c.m. longo pubescente vel hirsuto ; stipulis 1-2 c.m. longis, concavis 
membranaceis sed firmis, pubescentia densa tectis ; fructibus subglobosis, 2 - 5 c.m. diam., pedunculo 1 c.m. longo. Frequens in silvis per Magenja da Costa, Nhamacurra et Quelimane. Sim 5644. Tab. 
XCV. C. 
Ficus silicea. (Sp. nov.) Frutcx 1-2 m. alius, vel arbor 6-io m. alta; foliis ovatis, acutis, 7-10 c.m. longis, 5-7 c.m. latis, inaequaliter crenatis, triveniis, firmis, scabris ; stipulis 2'5 c.m. longis; 
fioribus majoribus, periantbio quinquefido; fructibus subglobosis vel spharicis, 12-20 m.m. diam., hirsuto. Frequens inter Chai-chai et Inhambane. Sim 5381- Tab. LXXXVII. 
3 Artocarpus (?) africana. (Sp. nov.) Arbor magna, glabra ; succo tenui lactco ; foliis allernis, e basi rotundata vel subcordata elliptico-lanceolatis 16-25 c.m. longis, 5-8 c.m. latis, srepe paullo obliquis, 
costa et venis primariis subtus prominentibus : stipulis intrapetiolaribus convolutis, 2 c.m. longis, caducis ; inflorescentiis (immaturis) breviter pedunculatis, globosis, axillaribus vel e cauli et ramis ortis, bracteatis e 
fiosculis parvis factis. Magenja da Costa, Maputa lebombos et Lourenzo Marques. Sim 5999. Tab. XXXII. 
