58 CXXIlIc. MORACEZ (Rendle). [ Dorstenia. 
side, curving upwards and uniting below the margin, prominent 
beneath; petiole 2-4 lin. long. Stipules narrowly triangular- 
acuminate, barely 2 lin. long, caducous. Inflorescences solitary, 
axillary ; peduncle $ in. or less in length; receptacle turbinate, 
stellately 4-lobed, 4-5 lin. in diam., with a linear to linear-spathulate 
bract-arm from each lobe about 8 lin. long. Male flowers 2-androus ; 
female flower solitary, central, the exserted style dividing into 2 
recurving branches. 
Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria: Oban, Talbot, 675! Cameroons: Ndo- 
nge in dense mountain rain forest, 2700-3300 ft., Ledermann, 6229 ! 
63. D. edeensis, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 272. A shrub; 
internodes on branches about 10lin. long. Leaves very shortly stalked, 
elliptic, with a long acuminate apex and a subacute base, 4-54 in. 
long, 14-2 in. wide in the middle, apex 3 in. long, margin entire ; 
lateral nerves 6-7 on each side, curving upwards and uniting near 
the margin ; petiole 1 lin. long. Stipules short, elongated-triangular. 
Peduncle about 3 in. long, shortly puberulous as is also the receptacle 
with its bracts ; receptacle turbinate, 4-lobed, barely 5 lin. in diam., 
with 4 narrowly spathulate bract-arms each 1 in. long. 
oo Guinea. Cameroons: in rain forest at Edea, near Sende, Bisgen, 
It is possible that this is only a form of D. Ledermannii with more elliptic 
leaves and somewhat longer bract-arms. I have not seen a specimen. 
64. D. aspera, A. Chev. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, lviii. Mém. viii. 
207. A shrub 3-6 ft. high; branchlets 1-14 lin. thick with inter- 
nodes }-2 in. long ; young shoots, petioles, peduncles and receptacles 
puberulous. Leaves shortly stalked, polymorphic, oblanceolate 
or oblong or deltoid to narrowly obovate, abruptly acuminate with 
the extreme apex obtuse, base wedge-shaped, more or less acute, 
margin undulate, sometimes becoming more or less dentate above, 
2-9 in. long, #-2 in. wide, apex 3-5 lin. long, in the lower part of 
the shoots oblong-triangular or subdeltoid, abruptly acuminate ; 
upper face glabrous, with sparse short adpressed hairs on the lower 
face; lateral nerves 6-8 on each side, curving upwards and uniting 
below the margin ; petiole 14-5 lin. long. Stipules acutely triangular, 
2-3 lin. long, caducous. Inflorescences solitary in the upper leaf- 
axils. Peduncle 24-7 lin. long, much dilated above and rugose. 
Receptacle small, oblong or 3-lobed, 5-7 lin. long, 24-3 lin. broad, 
with a narrow entire margin and bearing 2 or 3 linear-spathulate 
bract-arms 3-3 in. long and 3 lin. broad. Male flowers numerous, 
2-3-androus ;_ perianth shortly 3-lobed, lobes obtusely rounded, 
puberulous ; female flower solitary, central; ovary deeply sunk, 
passing abruptly into a deeply 2-fid style, enveloped by the pul- 
verulent tubular perianth, which divides at the apex into 3 small 
