Trymatococcus.] CXXIIc, MORACER (Rendle). 75 
1, T. africanus, Baill. in Adansonia, xi. 300. A. shrub from 
3-10 ft. high; branchlets reaching about 1 lin. in thickness with 
internodes generally 3-1} in. long, the young portions more or less 
densely covered with very short sometimes hooked hairs. Leaves 
elliptic-oblong, generally narrowing to the base, apex passing abruptly 
into a slender tip 4 to % in. long, extreme apex obtuse, base obtuse, 
generally unequal, margin entire or slightly undulate, 4-6 in. long, 
13-23 in. wide, membranous, somewhat shining above, minutely 
scabrous beneath ; lateral nerves 8-12 on each side, ascending and 
uniting within the margin, prominent beneath ; petiole 2-3 lin. long. 
Stipules narrowly triangular, acute, 3-4 lin. long, soon falling. 
Inflorescences several (2-5) of different ages on a short axillary 
branch, more or less densely covered with minute hooked hairs ; 
peduncles arising each in the axil of a short blunt bract, 6-9 lin. 
long, becoming dilated above into a broadly top-shaped receptacle. 
Receptacle } in. across, yellow, margin bearing numerous very short 
obtuse lobes. Male flowers 2-androus, the two perianth-lobes 
concave, obtuse ; filaments thickened below, tapering above, about 
2 lin. long; anthers didymous, rounded. Perianth of female flower 
very thin below, forming above round the style a stouter projecting 
tube, from the mouth of which spread the style-arms. Receptacle 
in fruit subglobose or ellipsoid, to 5 lin. long and about 4 lin. in 
diam., filled with the fruit—Engl. Monogr. Morac. Afr. 28, t. xi. fig. A. 
Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria: Oban, Talbot 631! 2327! Cameroons : 
Cameroon River, Mann, 723 ! 2228 ! Bipinde, Zenker, 875! 3092! 3506 ! 4169 ! 
between Bipinde and Mamiaca, Zenker, 1032! between Ediki and Backundu, 
Winkler, 1058! Bell Town, Buchholz! Barombi, Preuss, 201; Mundane near 
Johann-Albrechtshéhe, 400 ft., Staudt, 611! between Nyoke and Mundane, 
Schlechter, 12870 ! 
Lower Guinea. Spanish Guinea: Nkolentangan, 1500 ft., Tessman, 54! 
2. T. dorstenioides, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. li. 434. A small shrub 
about 5 ft. high, with round branches and pubescent young shoots. 
Leaves oblanceolate-oblong, apex abruptly long-acuminate, base 
Somewhat obtuse, margin entire, 33-5 in. long, 1}-2 in. wide, thinly 
membranous, glabrous, midrib stout ; lateral nerves 6-8 on each 
side, spreading and curving upwards to unite near the margin ; petiole 
channelled above, 23 lin. long. Stipules ovate, acute, soon falling. 
Inflorescences solitary in the leaf-axils, stalk } in. long, finely- 
hairy, pendulous when young; receptacle top-shaped, 34 lin. high, 
4 lin. in diam., shortly hairy throughout, surrounded by 10 triangular 
bracts alternately 2 and 1 lin. long. Male flowers 2-androus ; 
perianth 2-lobed ; perianth of female flower shortly 2-lobed ; style 
elongated, 2-fid. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: in hilly country near Fenda, 6700 ft., Mild- 
braed, 5988. 
Described by Engler as allied to 7. africanus but distinguished from other 
known species of the genus by the development of the marginal bracts. 
