30 CXXIlIIc. MORACE (Rendle). [Dorstenva. 
B. Stylesimple. Plants persisting by means of a tuber 
or short thick rhizome, sometimes acaulescent or 
with a thick fleshy stem (section Kosaria). 
Stem springing from a tuber or short thick rhizome : 
Receptacle cigs ne or 4—6-rayed: 
Bract-arms about twice as uve as the 
diameter of the disc.. : . 85. D. Walleri. 
Bract-arms not eran te eee of the 
disc: .-2 . 86. D. cuspidata. 
Bracts short and bast. eon Bane then ths 
diameter of the disc: 
Bracts 2-5 lin. long ... a a ... 87. D. zanzibarica. 
Bracts not exceeding 1 lin. ... .. 88. D. holtziana. 
Receptacle 3-lobed, with finely detNichlate: asegih 89. D. Preussit. 
Acaulescent plants with a fleshy tuber : 
Receptacle oblong to linear with terminal ete 
lateral bract-arms Be . 90. D. barnimiana. 
Receptacle narrowly triangular eit beact: -arms 
from apex and base only te as --. 91. D. palmata, 
Receptacle orbicular se aus = ... 92. D. ellenbeckiana. 
Stem thick and fleshy : 
Leaves elliptic to obovate, entire ... oe .-. 93. D. feetida. 
Leaves with crisped or toothed margin ... ... 94. D. crispa. 
1. D. frutescens, Engl. Monogr. Morac. Afr. 12, t.ii. B. Shrubby 
with a slender horizontal rhizome 1-1? lin. thick and an erect 
slender terete, generally simple, stem 14-3 ft. high, and 14-2 lin. 
thick below and 1 lin. in the upper younger portion ; rhizome sitached 
near the base of the stem by a strong tapering branching root, and 
also bearing fibrous roots. Young shoot shortly and densely pilose, 
later glabrous. Leaves papery, broadly oblanceolate to obovate, 
shortly acuminate, tapering to an acute base, and passing into the 
petiole, margin entire, 6-10 in. long, 2-2? in. wide, glabrous, shining 
and dull green above, paler beneath; lateral nerves 10-13 on each 
side, curving slightly upwards and connected by a loose reticulation, 
depressed on the upper face, prominent beneath ; petiole slender, 
hairy like the stem, }-#in. long. Stipules conspicuous, linear-taper- 
ing, glabrous, persistent, 3-6 lin. long. Inflorescence solitary ; 
stalk 3-5 lin. long; receptacle turbinate, upper face orbicular to 
elliptic, slightly 2-lobed, yellowish, 5-6 lin. in diam., reaching 
10 lin. when ripe, outside brownish-green with a few small scattered 
bracts on the sides and base and numerous small marginal bracts. 
Male flowers 2—3-androus ; perianth 3-leaved ; female few; ovary 
ovoid ; style long, thin, 2—branched for the greater part of its length. 
Fruit subglobose, slightly compressed, smooth, 2}-3 lin. thick, 
completely sunk in the receptacle ; endocarp light brown.—Engl. in 
Schlechter, Westafr. Kautsch.-Exped. 286. 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea: Louesse, Sibakala, Baudon, 724! Cameroons: 
Barombi, Preuss, 374, 318, 384! between Ninga-dorf and Kake, Preuss, 373 ! 
Johann-Albrechtshihe, Staudt, 461! Eko-Keyake, 1000-1300 ft., Schlechter, 
12890! 
Lower Guinea, Gaboon: Mfoa, 85 miles east of Gaboon, Bates, 517! 
