Dorstenia.] CXXIIIc. MORACEZ (Rendle). 49 
very short petiole, margin entire or repand-crenate, about 5} in. 
long and 2 in. wide, bearing on both faces small stiff scattered hairs ; 
midrib fleshy ; lateral nerves 5-6 on each side, fleshy, curving upwards 
and uniting; petiole 7 lin. long, winged, glabrous. Inflorescences 
solitary ; stalk 14 lin. long, attached near the base of the receptacle ; 
receptacle narrowly oblong, 9-6 lin. long, 2-23 lin. broad, with a 
single bract from the upper end, 2? in. long and springing from 
beneath the edge of the receptacle, rounded at the base. Male flowers 
3-4-androus, with 3-4-lobed perianth ; female distributed throughout 
the disc; style 2-fid. Fruit 4-hedral; endocarp thinly crustaceous, 
warted. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Eastern Usambara ; near Kifalufalu, 
Amani, 2544. 
45. D. scaphigera, Bureau in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, i. 60. 
A small shrub with erect woody stems reaching 3 ft. in height, 
pubescent when young, soon becoming glabrous. Leaves shortly 
stalked, membranous, narrowly obovate-elliptic or elliptic, acuminate, 
base wedge-shaped, margin undulate, 23-64 in. long, 1-3 in. wide, 
upper face glabrous, shining, puberulous on the stronger nerves on 
the lower face ; lateral nerves 6-9 on each side, arcuately ascending 
and uniting near the margin; petiole 24-5 lin. long. Stipules 
setaceous, about 1 lin. long, caducous. Inflorescence solitary ; 
teceptacle narrow, boat-shaped, 14-1? in. long, relatively few- 
flowered, with a broad (3 lin.) membranous sinuate veined margin 
which is not prolonged into teeth or arms ; stalk slender, pubescent, 
5-$ lin. long. Male flowers 2-androus ; perianth obscurely 2-lobed ; 
female few (2 or 3) deeply sunk in the median line of the receptacle ; 
ovary deeply sunk ; style very short, dividing into 2 linear spreading 
recurved stigmas on reaching the surface—Engl. Monogr. Morac. 
Afr. 19; De Wild. Pl. Nov. Hort. Thenen. i. 227, t. 52; De Wild. 
& Durand, Pl. Thonner. Congol. 11 and Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. fasc. 
ii. 58; Th. & Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 503; De Wild. PI. 
Thonner. Congol. ii. 299. 
North Central. French Congo: Upper Kemo River, Dybowski. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Bena Dibela, Luja; Kondue (Sankuru) and 
Vicinity, Luja, 1, 32, 81; Bangala; Bobi, near Gali, Thonner, 45. 
46. D. bicornis, Schweinf. in Bot. Zeit. 1871, 332. Stems her- 
baceous, a foot high, 2 or 3 rising erect from a creeping cylindrical 
much-branched fleshy rhizome, which is } in. or less in thickness, 
pubescent as are the petioles, densely leaved towards the apex. 
Leaves, lower long-stalked, thinly membranous, elliptic to obovate 
or obcuneate, apex acute to acuminate, mucronulate, narrowing 
below to a somewhat obtuse or acute base, margin rarely entire, 
generally undulate or more or less grossly dentate to deeply cut 
in the upper part, 4-5 in. long, 14-2} in. wide, glabrescent or with 
scattered adpressed hairs on the upper face, nerves beneath sparsely 
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