72 CXXIIIc. MORACEH (Rendle). [Dorstenia. 
91. D. palmata, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 146. A small acaulescent 
herb; tuber roundish when young, becoming broadly conical, 
sometimes with a stout cylindrical neck, and reaching 1-1} in. 
in diam., surface dark brown, bearing fibrous roots. Leaves long- 
petioled, glabrous, thinly papery when dry, 3-4 in. long, about 3 in. 
wide, either ovate-cordate, obtuse, with entire or dentate margin, 
and 7-9 nerves spreading palmately from the base, or 3-lobed, 
3-partite or palmatisect, with 5-7 linear or linear-oblong obtuse 
segments, sometimes with a few remote teeth or blunt spreading 
pinne ; petiole 24-4 in. long. Peduncle 2-4} in. long ; receptacle 
erect, narrowly elongate-triangular, 3-14 in. long, 14-5 lin. broad, 
with an apical bract 3-3 in. long, 1 lin. or less in breadth, and 
generally a pair of shorter bracts spreading from the corners of the 
base, sometimes two pairs. Male flowers 2-androus, enveloping 
perianth faintly lobed; female flowers distributed; style simple, 
projecting from the narrow tubular perianth. Endocarp ovoid, 
verruculose except on the vertical side, barely 1 lin. in diam.—Engl. 
Monogr. Morac. Afr. 25, t. ix. fig. D. Kosaria palmata, Schweinf. 
ex Engl.1.c. 
Nile Land. Jur: Wau, Schweinfurth, 1669! 1881! Jur Ghattas, Schwein- 
furth, 1880! near Mangob, Schweinfurth, 1830! 
92. D. ellenbeckiana, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 116. Leaves 
springing from an underground stem, somewhat fleshy, ovate or 
elliptic, with subcordate base, margin undulate, closely beset with 
minute obtuse teeth, about 2} in. long, 1}-1} in. wide, above very 
shortly hairy, below with longer white hairs especially on the midrib 
and nerves ; petiole somewhat fleshy, about 1 in. long, very shortly 
hairy like the peduncles and receptacles. Peduncle 2? in. long; 
receptacle orbicular, ferruginous, about 1 in. in diam., bearing 
numerous very unequal bracts, those of the first grade about 10, 
linear, 34 lin. long and 3 lin. wide, of the second grade 4-5, between 
the primary, linear-spathulate, 14-2 lin. long and barely } lin. wide, 
also 1-2 very small ones, less than 1 lin. long between the secondary. 
Flowers very numerous ; filaments 5-6 times longer than the orbicular 
anthers. 
Nile Land. Galla Highlands: Arussi-Galla; near Burkar, 4000 ft., Ellen- 
beck, 2018. 
93. D. fotida, Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. ii. 120, 
var. obovata, Engl. Monogr, Morac, Afr. 27. Tuber thick and fleshy, 
bearing several diverging short fleshy stems }-2 in. high, much 
wrinkled when dry and 4-3 in. thick. Leaves borne at the apex 
of the stem and short branches, deciduous, on long slender petioles, 
elliptic, ovate or obovate, 3-14 in. long, -1} in. wide, apex rounded 
sometimes emarginate, upper surface scabridulous, lower sparsely 
puberulous as is the petiole ; petiole 3-1} in. long. Peduncle 4-3 in. 
