Dorstenia.] CXXIIIc. MORACEH (Rendle). 57 
portion. Leaves obovate-elliptic to elliptic, shortly acuminate, 
wedge-shaped below or narrowing towards the base, which may be 
subcordate, margin entire or wavy, sometimes grossly dentate, 
3-6 in. long, 14-2? in. wide, glabrous, paler green beneath ; lateral 
nerves about 7 on each side uniting within the margin, impressed 
above, prominent beneath; petiole pubescent, 2-6 lin. long. 
Stipules subulate, 2-3 lin. long, persistent or caducous (Mann, 
1691). Inflorescence green, solitary in the upper leaf-axils; stalk 
1-1? im. long, shortly pubescent or glabrescent (Mann, 1691) ; 
receptacle lozenge-shaped or irregularly polygonal, with scattered 
hairs on the back, flowering disc up to 3 in. long, margin 1-2 lin. 
wide, continued into numerous narrow-linear glabrous bracts, a few 
(6 or fewer) of which much exceed the others and are 2-4 in. long, 
broadening below, with a pectinate margin. Male flowers 2-3- 
androus ; female flowers with projecting 2-fid style. Fruits globular, 
glabrous, about 14 lin. in diam.—Th. & Hél. Durand, Syll. Fi. 
Congol. 503; N. E. Br. in Bot. Mag. t. 8616. 
we ae Guinea. Cameroons: between Ebolowa and Kampo, WMildbraed, 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Sierra del Crystal, Mann, 1691! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Yambuya, Laurent, 1997! Eala, Brizhe ; 
Pynaert, 448 ! Mogandjo, Laurent, 2000 ; Injolo, Seret, 797; between Ikua and 
Bouguma, Laurent, 931. 
61. D. turbinata, Engl. in Schlechter, Westafr. Kautsch.-Exped. 
286 (name only), and in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 115. A small shrub 
with short branchlets. Leaves shortly stalked, oblanceolate, some- 
what abruptly acuminate with the extreme apex obtuse, base 
more or less cuneate, margin entire, 3-5 in. long, 1-1} in. wide, 
glabrous or with a few short scattered hairs on the lower face ; lateral 
nerves 5-7 on each side, arcuately ascending; petiole puberulous 
when young, 1-2 lin. long. Receptacle shortly stalked, turbinate, 
puberulous as are the bracts, surface round, 24 lin. in diam., with 
4 narrowly lanceolate obtuse bract-arms 2 in. long and j lin. wide, 
and 4 alternating shorter bract-arms 5 lin. long and 3 lin. wide. 
Flowers not seen. 
ier Guinea. Cameroons: between Njoke and Malende, 650 ft., Schlechter, 
1} 
62. D. Ledermannii, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 272. A shrub 
more than 6 ft. high with branchlets spreading at an acute angle, 
the internodes of which are 2 in. or less in length; cortex a dirty 
brown; young shoots, petioles, peduncles and receptacles very 
shortly hairy. Leaves shortly stalked, somewhat papery when dry, 
obovate to obovate-oblong, abruptly long-acuminate, base cuneate, 
margin entire or sometimes shortly toothed in the uppermost portion, 
4-8 in. long, 13-23 in. wide, glabrous ; lateral nerves 7-10 on each 
