Bosqueiopsis.| CXXxttIc. MORACE® (Hutchinson). 217 
some male with a rudiment of a female immersed in the middle, 
others bisexual, with an inferior central female flower and a single 
undivided style (from Engler’s figures); peltate bracts orbicular, 
very minutely ciliolate. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Amani, Koerner in Herb. Amani, 
59. 
3. B. Gilletii, De Wild. & Durand in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me 
sér.i.840. A tree or shrub; branches terete, sparingly pilose when 
young, at length glabrous, shining, brown, with peeling bark. Leaves 
elliptic, rounded-cuneate at the base, shortly obtusely acuminate at 
the apex, 14-3 in. long, 3-1} in. broad, mostly unequal-sided, 
brown above in the dried state, paler below ; lateral nerves about 
5 on each side of the midrib, the basal pair distant from the upper 
ones and anastomosing towards the margin, with the veins prominent 
helow ; petiole 3-4 lin. long, sparingly pilose. Receptacles axillary, 
shortly pedunculate, shortly pubescent outside ; peduncle }-1} in. 
long, pubescent. Bracts peltate, shortly ciliate. Stamens longer 
than the bracts; filaments free (according to De Wildeman), or 
(according to Engler) connate at the base, about 1 lin. long; anthers 
very small. Ovary subcentral, inferior ; style erect, about 1} lin. 
long, 2-lobed at the apex. Fruit adnate to the receptacle, oblique, 
about ? in. long and $ in. thick.—Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. li. 436. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo : Kimuenza, Gillet, 1742 ; Mildbraed. 
4. B. Luje, De Wild. Pl. Herb. Hort. Then. i. 239, t. lvi. A tree; 
branches terete, densely but shortly pilose when young, at length 
glabrous with sulcate bark. Leaves elliptic or ovate, rounded at 
the base, acuminate at the apex, acumen obtuse or apiculate, 2}—-5 in. 
long, 1-2 in. broad, slightly unequal-sided, dull brown above when 
dry, paler below ; lateral nerves about 4 on each side of the midrib, 
the basal pair long distant from the upper ones, extending within 
the margin to well above the middle of the blade; veins slightly 
Prominent below. Receptacles axillary, shortly pedunculate, shortly 
pubescent outside ; peduncle 1-2 lin. long. Flowers and fruit as in 
South Central. Belgian Congo : forest of the Sankuru River, Lnja, 78. 
10. BOSQUEIA, Thouars ex Baill.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. 
Pl. iii. 370 (Bosqurea). 
Flowers moncecious, inserted in a campanulate or obconic andro- 
8ynous receptacle. Male flowers covering the inner face of the 
receptacle. Perianth 0. Stamens intermixed with bracts ; fila- 
Ments slender: anthers erect, oblong or ellipsoid, obtuse or 
