36 CXXIIIc. MORACEH (Rendle). [Dorstenia. 
14. D. Holstii, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 145. Suffruticose, 
with a slender horizontal rhizome 14 lin. thick bearing much branched 
fibrous roots at the nodes, passing into an erect slender stem 8 in. 
high ; upper portion sparsely puberulous, as are the petioles and 
peduncles. Leaves papery, oblanceolate to obovately elliptic, apex 
blunt to shortly acuminate, base cuneate, blunt, margin slightly 
undulate, 34-5 in. long, 1-2} in. wide, shining above, paler beneath ; 
lateral nerves 4—6 on each side, curving upwards at an angle of about 
60° with the midrib; petiole $-3 in. long. Stipules linear-subulate, 
caducous, 1 lin. long. Inflorescence solitary ; stalk 14-14 in. long, 
over 1 lin. thick; receptacle suborbicular, dark reddish-brown, 
7-9 lin. long, 5~7 lin. broad, bearing a number of linear obtuse 
radiating bract-arms, 24 lin. to 1} in. long, and } lin. wide. Male 
flowers 2-3-androus ; female numerous, dispersed over the more 
central portion of the disc ; style projecting, 2-fid. Fruit subglobose, 
14-2 lin. in diam. ; endocarp crustaceous, keeled on the back, sides 
tuberculate——Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 161, and Monogr. Morac. Afr. 
13, t.1v. As 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; Mlalo, about 4800 ft., 
Holst, 3766; Amani, 3000 ft., Warnecke, 225! 
Var. grandifolia, Engl. Monogr. Morac. Afr. 13. “Stem 14-2 ft. high ; leaves 
generally 8 in. long, 24-2? in. wide ; petiole ?~1 in. long. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; Handei Mountains, 
near Kombola-Kosila, 3700 ft., Buchwald, 241; Gondja Mountains, 6400 ft., 
Buchwald, 236 ! 
15. D. asteriscus, Hngl. in Engl. Jahrb. li. 428. Stems reaching 
3 ft. in height, closely covered, as are also the petioles, leaf-veins, 
peduncles and receptacles, with short hairs between which are 
solitary short whitish bristles. Leaves membranous, broadly oblong- 
elliptic, apex shortly and obtusely acuminate, base blunt, margin 
coarsely crenate, 44-64 in. long, 2-23 in. wide, paler beneath, midrib 
thick ; lateral nerves about 10 on each side, spreading, prominent on 
the lower face; petiole about 3? in. long. Stipules small, subulate, 
glabrous. Peduncle 4 in. long. Receptacle orbicular, greyish-brown, 
nearly 8 lin. in diam., bearing numerous unequal obtuse bract-arms, 
the longest reaching 5 lin., several shorter ones between the longer. 
Male flowers 3-4-androus, with a 3-4-lobed perianth; female 
distributed throughout the disc ; style 2-fid. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Mbo, in the Kongoa Mountains, 5300 to 6000 ft., 
Ledermann, 6044. 
16. D. Brownii, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1915, 299. Herbaceous 
shoots 9-12 in. high, springing from a slender woody branching rhizome 
about | lin. thick, simple or branched, leafy nearly to the base ; inter- 
nodes 4- in. long, puberulous, interspersed with stiffer longer hairs on 
the young parts. Leaves thin and papery when dry, narrowly obovate 
