Dorstenia.} CXXIIIc. MORACEH (Rendle). 61 
tapering from a narrow triangular base, about 2 lin. long, somewhat 
persistent. Inflorescence solitary or in pairs in the leaf-axils, minutely 
puberulous ; stalk slender, 2-24 lin. long; receptacle greenish- 
brown, slender, attached about the middle and forked, the 2 linear 
limbs spreading at about a right angle, limb keeled beneath, 5-7 lin. 
long, about 14 lin. broad including the narrow margin (} lin.), 
passing at each end into a flat narrow-linear bract about 5 lin. long 
and $lin. broad. Male flowers in 3 rows, 2 marginal rows l-androus, 
and a central row 2-androus ; perianth short, tubular with erose 
margin, produced in the marginal series into a rounded limb incurved 
over the anther and in the central series into a similar incurved 
limb at each end. Female flower solitary in the centre of the disc 
or one at the base of each limb, with a pair of short stigmas (} lin. 
long) projecting from the mouth of the narrow-tubular perianth, 
and a short stout style about the same length. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Bipinde, Zenker, 3584 ! Johann-Albrechtshohe, 
Busgen, 185. 
70. D. Schlechteri, Engl. Monogr. Morac. Afr. 23, t. iv. fig. E. 
A herb, 6-12 or more in. high; stem succulent, from a short thickened 
rootstock which is densely covered with fibrous roots, 2-4 lin. thick at 
the base, glabrous, or sparsely hirtellous in younger parts, branching; 
shoots leafy. Leaves somewhat fleshy, obovate-cuneate, sometimes 
elliptic, apex blunt to subacute, base passing gradually into the 
very short petiole, margin obscurely and remotely dentate above 
the base, 2-3 in. long, 10-16 lin. wide, glabrous or dorsally hirtellous 
on the nerves when young ; lateral nerves 4-6 on each side, somewhat 
ascending ; petiole barely 3 lin. long or less. Stipules small, linear, 
deciduous. Inflorescences solitary, axillary ; stalk 5 lin. or less in 
length ; receptacle orbicular, 4 lin. or less in diam., with a narrowly 
Somewhat irregularly denticulate margin and generally 9 linear 
bract-arms springing from the back of the disc and about equal to 
or a little exceeding its diameter, 4-6 lin. long. Male flowers 2-3- 
androus ; perianth 2~3-lobed; female numerous; ovary stalked ; 
style shortly 2-fid, the style-arms falling as the fruit ripens, so that 
the style appears simple. Endocarp subglobose-triquetrous, 4 lin. 
in diam., pale brown, finely warted on two sides. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Mombassa, Kirk! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Dar-es-Salaam, Kirk! Portuguese 
East Africa : Beira, Schlechter (in Herb. Berlin) ! 
71. D. Warneckei, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 275. A perennial 
herb, 1-2} ft. high; stems stout, succulent, simple or slightly bra nched, 
leafy, internodes 24-10 lin. long, very sparsely glandular-hairy 
as are the petioles and peduncles. Leaves becoming crowded at the 
top of the stem, fleshy, narrowly obovate-oblong, subacute, narrowing 
cuneately at the base and passing gradually into the short petiole, 
