42 CXXIIIc. MORACE# (Rendle). | Dorstenva. 
except in the upper portion, which is very minutely hairy. Leaves 
oblong-lanceolate, somewhat obtusely acuminate, with a cuneate 
base narrowed into the petiole, 54-54 in. long, 1-2 in. wide ; lateral 
nerves 6 on each side, curving upwards and uniting near the margin ; 
petiole minutely hairy, slightly channelled above, 5-7 lin. long. 
Stipules very narrow, about 5 lin. long, deciduous. Peduncle 1} in. 
long ; receptacle pentagonal, margined, about 5 lin. in diam. ; bracts 
linear, slightly dilated at the apex, one from each angle about 7 lin. 
long, one from the middle of each side about 4 lin. long, and a tooth- 
like outgrowth 1 lin. or less in length by the side of the longer bracts. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons, Busgen. 
28. D. Staudtii, Hngl. Monogr. Morac. Afr. 13. Stem 6-9 in. 
high, herbaceous, decumbent and rooting below, upper portion 
pubescent like the petioles. Leaves thinly membranous when dry, 
elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowing below to the 
slightly emarginate base, margin entire or slightly undulate, some- 
times with one or two teeth above the middle, 4-6 in. long, 14-24 in. 
wide ; lateral nerves 7-9 on each side, spreading upwards and uniting 
near the margin; petiole 7-10 lin. long. Stipules small, subulate, 
deciduous, about 1-14 lin. long. Inflorescence solitary in the upper 
leaf-axils ; stalk puberulous, $ in. long; receptacle convex, disc 
broadly oblong, dark purple, $-? in. long, with a somewhat broad 
(1-14 lin.) margin passing into 5-6 linear bracts 3-3 in. or less in 
length and widening suddenly at the tip, and numerous intervening 
short blunt or irregularly triangular outgrowths. Male flowers 
2-3-androus ; perianth shortly 2-3-lobed ; female numerous, scattered 
through the receptacle, the 2-fid style projecting above the tubular 
mouth of the perianth; endocarp subglobose, crustaceous, 1 lin. 
or more in diam.—D. subrhombiformis, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. li. 428. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Lolodorf, Staudt, 148! Bipinde, Zenker, 4091! 
4117! 4290! 4306! 4647! 
29. D. jabassensis, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 270. Stem 
herbaceous, erect, up to 2 ft. high, 2 lin. thick below, like the petioles 
densely covered above with short hairs; internodes 3-3 in. long. 
Leaves elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, more or less acuminate, base 
obtuse, 4-54 in. long, 2-24 in. wide ; lateral nerves 7-8 on each side, 
spreading with an upward curve and turning upwards near the 
margin ; petiole 7—9 lin. long. Stipules narrowly triangular, deciduous. 
Peduncle puberulous, about ? in. long; receptacle subrhombiform, 
yellow, ? in. in diam., with a narrow herbaceous margin passing 
into 7-10 linear bract-arms, broadening at the tip, barely } in. 
long, with several 14~2 lin. long and others only 1 lin. long. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Jabassi, rain-forest, 330 ft., Ledermann, 1072. 
Var. subcuneata, Engl. I.c. 271. Leaves narrowing below to a wedge-shaped 
base, margin sometimes grossly dentate. 
