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2. D. elliptica, Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 271. Stem slender, 
woody in the lower portion from which the leaves have fallen, 
herbaceous and leafy above, youngest portion shortly and densely 
pilose, otherwise glabrous. Leaves papery when dry, elliptic, 
apex shortly acuminate, tapering to the base and passing into the 
short petiole, margin entire or subrepand, 74-8 in. long, 24 in. wide, 
smooth and bright green above, paler beneath ; lateral nerves as in 
D. frutescens ; petiole 24-5 lin. long. Stipules as in D. frutescens. 
Inflorescence solitary in the upper leaf-axils; stalk } in. long; 
receptacle closely resembling that’ of D. frutescens and bearing a few 
small scattered bracts on the unequally ribbed convex surface.— 
Engl. Monogr. Morac. Afr. 16. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po; Mann, 64! 
Engler does not appear to have seen this plant and bases his description on 
the original one of Bureau, who has overlooked the small bracts on the convex 
surface of the receptacle, and has thus led Engler to place the species in his sec- 
. tion Ludorstenia, while D. frutescens constitutes his section Nothodorstenia. The 
two species might perhaps be regarded as conspecific; there is, however, a 
difference in the general shape of the leaves, those of D. elliptica being narrower 
with much less tendency to broaden above the middle than in D. frutescens. 
3. D. ciliata, Engl. in Schlechter, Westafr. Kautsch.-Exped. 286 
(name only) and in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii.114. A herb 20 in. high; stem 
and petioles pubescent, the former reaching 2 lin. in diam. in the 
lower part. Leaves membranous when dry, oblong-elliptic to broadly 
elliptic, apex shortly acuminate, more or less tapering to the narrow 
rounded base, margin entire or obscurely crenate, 33-9 in. long, 134 
in. wide, glabrous and dark green above, pale beneath and minutely 
punctulate and sparsely pubescent on the nerves; lateral nerves 
8-10 on each side, ascending, then curving upwards and uniting 
within the margin, prominent beneath as also the connecting cross 
unions ; petiole }-1 in. long (rarely more). Stipules inconspicuous, 
1-1} lin. long. Inflorescence in the upper leaf-axils ; stalk puberulous, 
generally exceeding the petiole, 1} in. or less in length; receptacle 
suborbicular, 6-8 lin. in diam., brown, the margin bearing numerous 
closely arranged very unequal linear puberulous green bract-arms 
clavate and spathulately dilated above and varying in length from 
1-6 lin. Male flowers 3-androus; perianth with 3 broad lobes ; 
female numerous, distributed ; style projecting and carrying the two 
recurved branches above the tubular perianth.—D. harmsiana, Engl. 
in Schlechter, Westafr. Kautsch.-Exped. 286 (name only) and in 
Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 115. 
i : ween Mundame and Otam, 700-1000 ft., 
SM seslbatront in, Reveks, 100001300 ft., Schlechter, 12891; Bare, 2800 ft., 
Ledermann, 1442! Ndonge, 3300-4000 ft., Ledermann, 6210a ! 
4. D. Mannii, Hook. f. in Bot. Mag.t.5908. A herb 1-2 ft. high ; 
stem unbranched, erect, terete, somewhat flexuous, subnodose, 
