32 CXXIIIc. MORACE# (Rendle). [ Dorstenia. 
hirtellous. Leaves somewhat membranous, broadly elliptic, shortly | 
acuminate, narrowing below to an obtuse or subcordate base, 
entire or obscurely sinuate-toothed, 4-8 in. long, 23-4 in. wide, 
glabrous, dark green, paler beneath ; lateral nerves about 7 on each 
side, somewhat ascending, ultimately upwardly curving and uniting 
within the margin; petioles $-1 in. long, hirtellous. Stipules 
minute, subulate, persistent. Inflorescence solitary in the axils of 
the fallen leaves; stalk 3} in. long, pubescent; receptacle sub- 
orbicular or irregularly stellate, 4-1 in. in diam., green, pubescent 
on the back, very convex, margin narrow with 10-15 slender stiff 
recurving unequal sparsely pubescent bract-arms, 4-2 in. long, 
thickened towards the tip; peduncle 3 in. long, pubescent. Male 
flowers 3-androus; female scattered throughout the disc; style 
slender, dividing just above the surface of the disc into two spreading 
linear stigmas.—Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 271; Engl. Monogr. 
Morac. Afr. 18. 
Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria: Old Calabar River, Mann, 2316! Thom- - 
son, 10! and cultivated specimen ! 
5. D. ophiocoma, K. Schum. & Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 145. 
Suffruticose ; stem erect from a creeping lower portion which bears 
long slender tapering roots with fibrous branches, apparently about 
a foot high; younger portion of stem and petioles hirtellous. Leaves 
stalked, elliptic, apex more or less acuminate, tapering below to a 
narrow more or less obscurely cordate base, margin undulate, some- 
times more or less coarsely toothed in the upper portion, 44-7 in. 
long, 24-3} in. wide, glabrous or sparsely pubescent on the nerves 
and veins on the paler lower face; lateral nerves 9-12 on each side 
spreading, curving upwards and uniting within the margin ; petioles 
4-1} in. long. Stipules triangular-subulate, 2 lin. long or less, sub- 
persistent. Inflorescence solitary ; stalk slender, }-? in. long, increas- 
ing to 14 lin. in fruit, like the outside of the receptacle and bract- 
arms more or less puberulous; receptacle convex, surface sub- 
orbicular, $-? in. in diam., dark purple, with a narrow margin, the 
edge bearing 10-12 triangular projections each running out into a 
slender linear bract-arm from 3-2} in. long, rarely with a few shorter 
intermediatearms. Male flowers 3-androus ; female scattered over the 
more central portion of the disc. Endocarp subglobose, obscurely 
3-gonous, whitish-brown, smooth, 14 lin. in diam.—Engl. Monogr. 
Morac. Afr. 17, t. iv. C. (incl. var. longipes). 
Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria: Oban District, Talbot, 673! 2319! 
Cameroons: Batanga, Braun, Dinklage, 633; Victoria; between Jongo and 
Bakingele, Preuss, 1381! 
Var. minor, Rendle. A smaller plant about 6—7 in. high with leaves 14-4 in. 
long and 1-1} in. wide, margin undulate; petiole }-} in. long. Receptacle 
about 3 in. in diam. with 6-10 bract-arms Pr to 14 in. long, and occasionally 
a few very short intermediate arms.—D. intermedia, Engl. Monogr. Morac. Afr. 
17, t. iv. D, and in Schlechter, Westafr. Kautsch.-Exped. 286. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Victoria, Preuss, 1107! Schlechter, 12368! 
Efulen, Bates, 313! 
