Dorstenia. | CXXIIIc. MORACEH (Rendle) 73 
long, sparsely puberulous as is the roundish receptacle, which is 
5-7 lin. in diam., with 8-10 linear unequal bract-arms 23 lin. or 
less in length. Male flowers 2-3-androus; female generally dis- 
tributed ; style simple—Almagia in Ann. R. Istit. Bot. Roma, 
vii. 115. D. obovata, Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 103 (name only) ; A. 
Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 273; Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 275. 
Kosaria obovata, Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 190 (name only). 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: on the Deban, 5000-6000 ft., Beccari, 133; near 
Jelajeranne, Schimper, 1675! near Mawerr, at about 3700 ft., Schimper, 171. 
Eritrea : Habab, 4500-6300 ft., Hildebrandt, 386 ; Roret Mountain, 7'erracciano 
& Pappi, 2362; Amba Mountains, Terracciano & Pappi, 2361; Keren, 
Steudner, 1360. 
Also in Arabia. 
94. D. crispa, Engl. Monogr. Morac. Afr. 27, t. ix. A. Stem 
succulent, up to 44 in. high, erect from a swollen base which may 
teach 14 in. in diam., cylindrical tapering upwards to } in. in diam.., 
unbranched or ending in short thick spreading branches with leafy 
tips, surface of stem pale brown, marked with the roundish tubercle- 
like leaf-scars. Leaves narrowly oblong to linear-lanceolate, subobtuse 
to acute; base acute or obtuse, margin crisped and toothed, 13-23 
in. long, 3-2 in. wide, dark green, paler beneath, with very short 
Scattered hairs when young, ultimately glabrous; nerves 8-11 on 
each side, spreading ; petiole 4-? in. long. Stipules small, subulate 
from a tubercle-base, 1-2 lin. long, ciliolate, persisting for a time on 
either side of the leaf-scar. Inflorescences solitary in the leaf-axils, 
Sometimes less than 1 in. long, but sometimes ultimately lengthening 
to 4 in. Receptacle orbicular-stellate, somewhat concave when 
young, puberulous, disc ultimately flattened, }-? in. broad, the 
thickened margin passing into 6-10 subulate spreading unequal 
bract-arms, }-1 in. long, with short intervening teeth. Male flowers 
2-androus, with broadly 2-lobed papillose perianth ; female numerous, 
generally dispersed ; style simple. Endocarp pale brown, orbicular- 
tetrahedral, dorsally crested, sides minutely tuberculate, }-3 lin. 
in. diam.—D. Phillipsie, Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 7676. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Foot of Ruggar Pass, in the Waggat Mountains, 
and Soksoda, Lort Phillips ! Galla Highlawda: Gerima; by the river Daua, 
Riva, 441! ' 
Var. lancifolia, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1915, 302. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 
acute at the base and apex, margin obscurely denticulate, 2-24 in. long, 4-6 lin. 
wide. 
Nile Land. British East Africa : Ngomeni, Scott Elliot, 6279 ! 
Imperfectly known species. 
_ 95. D. liebuschiana, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 275, A small 
Juicy herb 6 in. high, with stem and petioles shortly hairy ; lower 
internodes 7 lin. long, upper 5-2} lin. Leaves oblong-lanceolate 
