62 : CXXHIc. MORACE (Rendle). | Dorstenia. 
upper portion more or less grossly and irregularly dentate, 2-6 in. 
long, 14-24 in. wide, glabrescent ; lateral nerves 4—7 on each side, 
irregular, ascending, and passing into the teeth; petiole 24~7 lin. 
long. Stipules inconspicuous. Inflorescences solitary, axillary ; 
stalk 5-9 lm. long; receptacle broadly elliptic, 5-7 by 4-54 In., 
with a whor! of 8-12, short blunt lmear-triangular bract-arms about 
equal to half the breadth of the disc, with sometimes intermediate 
shorter arms or a minute tooth. Male flowers 3-androus ; perianth 
3-lobed; female numerous and scattered; ovary shortly stalked ; 
style 2-fid at the apex. Endocarp globose-triquetrous, verruculose.— 
D. latibracteata, Engl. 1c. 
Mozamb. Distr. Pemba Island, 400 ft., Kassner, 388! German East Africa : 
Amani, at 1500-2500 ft., Engler, 3390; Warnecke, 509 ! 
72. D. katangensis, De Wild. in Fedde, Repert. xi. 519, and im 
Etudes Fl. Katanga, ii. 30, t. ix. fig. 3. Stem herbaceous, solitary, 
8 in. high, from a depressed-globose tuber ? in. in diam. and 3 in. 
high, terete, reddish, pubescent especially in the younger part, lower 
portion bearing reduced leaf-like scales at the nodes, upper 43 in., 
leafy. Leaves subsessile, erect, narrowly linear-lanceolate, apex 
bluntly mucronate, margin denticulate, 13-14 lin. long, 1 lin. wide, 
hirtellous on both surfaces. Stipules lanceolate, 1 lin. long. In- 
florescence solitary in the upper leaf-axils ; stalk stout, about 1 ln. 
long ; disc orbicular, about 3 lin. in diam.; bract-arms springing 
from beneath a narrow obscurely crenate margin, spreading, 6-10, 
unequal, linear, tapering slightly and thickening upwards, hirtellous, 
2-5 lin. long, about } lin. wide. Male flowers 2-androus, the two 
broad perianth-lobes with denticulate margin; female scattered ; 
style shortly 2-fid. Endocarp triquetrous-globose, verruculose. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Upper Katanga ; Ruwe, Hock! 
Described from a single specimen. 
73. D. Debeerstii, De Wild. & Durand in Bull. Soc. Bot. 
Belg. xxxix. 75. Stems herbaceous, solitary or in pairs, springing 
from the centre of a depressed disc-shaped tuber, which is concave 
above, 2-2? in. in diam., and 7-10 lin. high, erect or somewhat spread- 
ing, 6-14 in. high, densely shortly tomentose, leafy at the apex or 
in the upper third, below bearing at the nodes stipulate scale-leaves. 
Leaves subsessile, erecto-patent, obovate-lanceolate, acute or sub- 
obtuse, narrowing gradually to the base, margin except at the base 
closely and minutely denticulate, 13-2 in. long, 5-7 lin. broad, 
upper surface scabrous and densely strigillose, more softly and 
laxly hirsute beneath; median nerve and 6-8 lateral nerves on 
each side somewhat prominent and paler on the lower face. Stipules 
linear-oblong, acute, 14-2 lin. long, persistent. Inflorescences 
appearing before the leaves, solitary in the axils of the upper scales 
