Dorstenva. | CXXIIIc. MORACEH (Rendle). 55 
¢ in. broad, including the narrow margin (about 1 lin. wide), which 
is prolonged into numerous bract-arms of very variable length, from 
triangular tooth-like projections to narrow-linear and 6-7 lin. long. 
Male flowers 2~3-androus ; female with the deeply 2-fid style pro- 
jecting from the tubular mouth of the perianth—De Wild. Etudes 
Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 123, t. 59. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Sankuru, Luja, 177! 
56. D. mogandjensis, De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, 
ii. 241. Stem woody below, herbaceous above, densely covered in 
the younger part with short, rather stiff, spreading hairs. Leaves 
papery when dry, somewhat oblong-elliptic, apex acuminate, narrow- 
ing somewhat abruptly to a cuneiform, blunt base, margin entire or 
slightly wavy, 44-54 in. long, 14-2 in. wide, glabrous except for a 
few hairs on the veins on the lower surface; lateral nerves about 
7 on each side, curving upwards and uniting within the margin, 
prominent beneath; petiole hairy like the stem, 4-5 lin. long. 
Stipules small, triangular, acuminate, deciduous. Inflorescences 
solitary in the upper leaf-axils ; stalk 13-2 in. long, with scattered 
hairs; receptacle somewhat square, about # in. in diam., with 
a membranous margin 2 lin. broad, produced at the four corners 
into a bract-arm which is linear from a triangular base, 2-2 in. long, 
and enlarged at the apex, with short triangular projections between 
the long arms and on the base of the latter—Th. & Hél. Durand, 
Syll. Fl. Congol. 502. 
Tastes Central. Belgian Congo: Mogandjo, on the Aruwimi River, Laurent, 
! 
57. D. subtriangularis, Engl. Monogr. Morac. Afr. 15, t. v. A. 
Stem erect, apparently from a creeping horizontal rooting base, 
woody below, herbaceous above, 6 in. to 2 ft. high, simple or some- 
times branched; young stem and petioles shortly hairy. Leaves 
papery when dry, elliptic, apex shortly acuminate, tapering to the 
subobtuse base, margin obscurely undulate or with a few large teeth 
' above, 34-6 in. long, 1-34 in. wide, glabrous, bright green above, 
paler beneath; lateral nerves 6-8 on each side, curving upwards 
and uniting near the margin ; petiole }-$ in. long. Stipules small, 
triangular-subulate, 1-1} lin. long, persisting as long as the leaves. 
Inflorescence solitary or paired; stalk slender, 1-1} in. long, 
puberulous or glabrescent ; receptacle disciform, subtriangular to 
trapezoidal, purplish-green, 4-5 lin. wide, with a broad green 
margin 3-5 lin. broad, passing at three of the angles into long linear 
bracts 1-14 in. long, with a much shorter bract at the fourth corner 
and sometimes a few short teeth between.—Engl. in Schlechter, 
Westafr. Kautsch.-Exped. 286. 
Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria: Oban, Talbot, 2315! Cameroons : 
betinece: Victoria and Bimbia, p San 1135! 1347! Victoria, Schlechter, 
12375! Bipindi, Schlechter, 12424; Ambas Bay, Mann, XIII! 
