64 CXXIIIc. MORACE (Rendle). [Dorstenia. 
DC. Prodr. xvii. 274; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 191 and 
Monogr. Morac. Afr. 24; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 1025. D. 
Poggei, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 146, xxx. 292, and Monogr. Morac. 
Afr. 24, t. vi., fig. C; Th. & Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 503. 
D. Pogget, var. Meyeri-Johannis, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. li. 434. 
D. Hockii, De Wild. in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. iti. 278 (1911), and in 
Etudes Fl. Katanga, ii. 31 (1913). D. stenophylla, R. E. Fries in 
Arkiv. Bot. xiii. no. 1. 9 (1913), t. 2, fig. 4, and in Wiss. Ergebn. 
Schwed. Rhodes.-Kongo-Exped. 1911-12, i. 13. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; near Lopollo, Welwitsch, 1566! Kubango, 
Colui valley and Ganguellas, Gossweiler, 2115! Cutato valley, south of Andulo 
and Upper Cutato, Gregory ! on the Kwango at 103° S. lat., Pogge, 294 ! 
Ste Central. Belgian Congo: Katanga; valley of the Little Luembe, 
ock ! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Uschirombo, Meyer; Unyika; 
Miwura, 5700 ft., Goetze, 1376. Rhodesia: Kalambo, Fries, 1332. 
75. D. rhodesiana, R. EL. Fries in Arkiv. Bot. xiii. no. i. 11, 
t. 2, figs. 1, 2. Habit of D. benguellensis ; tuber placentiform, 
about 2 in. in diam., 5-7 lin. high; central stem slightly fleshy, 
reddish at the base, 8-10 in. high, densely covered with very short 
greyish hairs towards the apex, bearing leaves and inflorescences in 
the upper third, and below lanceolate-ovate acute shortly tomentose 
scales about 2 lin. long. Leaves subsessile, linear-lanceolate, apex 
subacute, margin closely crenulate, 2-3 in. long, 4-5 lin. wide, 
hirtellous especially on the nerves on the lower face. Stipules 
oblong-lanceolate, persistent, 1-14 lin. long. Inflorescences solitary ; 
stalk 24-5 lin. long ; receptacle orbicular, 5-6 lin. in diam., the margin 
bearing a ring of minute dark purple teeth 4 lin. long or less ;_ bract- 
arms 8-10, springing froma little below the margin, linear, unequal, 
to $ lin. broad, the upper 7-10 lin. long, the lower decreasing to half 
the length. Female flowers numerous ; style shortly 2-fid. Fruit 
subglobose with warted endocarp, about } lin. in diam.—R. E. Fries 
in Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Rhodes.-Kongo-Exped. 1911-12, i. 13. 
Mozamb. Distr. Rhodesia: Msisi, near Abercorn, Fries, 1302. 
Specimen not seen ; should perhaps be included under D. benguellensis. 
76. D. Verdickii, De Wild. & Durand in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. x1. 26. 
Stem erect, herbaceous, hirtellous, leafy, internodes 1 in. long or 
less. Leaves subsessile, thin and papery when dry, lanceolate, more 
or less acuminate, apex blunt and obscurely mucronate, margit 
obscurely denticulate, 2-3 in. long, 7-8 lin. wide, scaberulous, 
sparsely hirtellous especially on the nerves; lateral nerves 8-12 
on each side, ascending. Stipules linear-tapering to linear-lanceolate, 
1-14 lin. long. Inflorescences solitary in each leaf-axil; stalk 
stout, about 23 lin. long ; receptacle glabrescent, disc flat, orbicular, 
34-4 lin. in diam., margin denticulate, bract-arms springing from 
