Dorstenia. | CXXIIIc. MORACE (Rendle). 41 
short-stalked, obovate-elliptic, apex blunt or shortly acuminate, 
base sometimes cuneate, ultimately subcordate, margin slightly 
undulate, obscurely crenate, or irregularly grossly dentate, 14-4 in. 
. long, 3-2 in. wide, glabrous except for a few hairs on the median 
nerve beneath, dull green above when dry, pale beneath; lateral 
nerves about 7 on each side, curving upwards and uniting within 
the margin, somewhat impressed above, prominent beneath ; petiole 
13-6 lin. long. Stipules narrowly linear-subulate, hairy, 2-23 lin. 
long, persistent. Inflorescence solitary in the upper leaf-axils ; 
stalk glabrous, up to 23 in. long; receptacle glabrous, rhomboid, 
with a narrow margin, short diam. 33 lin., long diam. 54 lin. in the 
flowering stage, the 4 angles prolonged each into a long slender 
bract-arm 1}-2 in. long, which is enlarged and 2-lobulate at the 
tip. Male flowers 2-androus (De Wildeman); female numerous, 
with 2-fid style. Fruit subglobose, obscurely trigonous; endocarp 
smooth. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Yambuya, Laurent, 2051! Solheid, 108 ! 
26. D. Laurentii, De Wild. Miss. &. Laurent, 69, t. 32. Stems 
erect, herbaceous, densely hirtellous, as are the petioles, with 
long and short hairs intermixed, borne on a long woody creeping 
rhizome 14-2 lin. in diam. and swollen at the nodes. Leaves oblong- 
elliptic, narrowing to a cuneate base, apex shortly acuminate, base 
acute or narrowly subcordate, margin entire, undulate, or with a 
few irregular teeth above, 54-8} in. long, 12-23 in. wide, glabrous 
above, paler and with a few scattered hairs on the nerves beneath ‘ 
lateral nerves 8-11 on each side, curving upwards and uniting within 
the margin ; petiole 3-5 lin. long. Stipules short, triangular-subulate, 
hairy, 13 lin. long, deciduous. Inflorescence solitary, axillary ; 
stalk glabrous, 34 in. long; receptacle 4-5-angular, flowering portion 
about 5 lin. in diam., with a narrow margin 3-1 lin. wide, angles 
prolonged into long slender bract-arms broadening spathulately 
at the tip, 13-4 in. long, with sometimes a few, inconspicuous inter- 
mediate teeth. Male flowers 2-androus (De Wildeman); female 
flowers with 2-fid style—Th. & Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 502 ; 
De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, iii. 64, and in Comp. 
Kasai Miss. Etud. Sci. 278. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Kondue, Laurent! Munungu, Sapin ; Bena- 
Dibele, Flamigni ! 
Var. brevipedicellata, De Wild. Pl. Nov. Hort. Thenen. i. 225, t. li. Leaves 
smaller than in the type, narrowing to a subcordate base, 14-4} in. long, 
1-2§ in. wide. Inflorescence solitary or geminate ; stalk 13-2} in. long; re- 
ceptacle 3-4-angular, angles prolonged into-narrow-linear subobtuse bract-arms 
up to 22 in. long. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Forests of the Sankuru, Luja, 54. 
27. D. obtusibracteata, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 271. 
Stems erect, slightly woody ; internodes 14-1} in. long, glabrous 
