222 CXXIlIc. MORACEH (Hutchinson). [ Mesogyne. 
below into a stalk-like portion, common wall thin, tough. Seed 
conforming to the fruit-cavity with a thin testa, filled with the embryo 
which has a short radicle, one short roundish cotyledon, and one very 
thick cotyledon which almost fills the seed.—Shrubs or trees, with 
alternate shortly stalked acuminate leaves; stipules lanceolate, 
deciduous. Inflorescences on a reduced branch in the leaf-axils, 
2-4 male consisting of a short stalk bearing a dense head of flowers 
subtended by several spreading ovate bracts; female generally 
between a pair of males, rarely solitary, sessile, consisting of an 
ovoid: receptacle bearing small bracts at the base and on the sides 
and upper margin, and enveloping one, rarely 2, flowers. 
Species two, endemic. 
Female receptacle bearing a few bracts on the sides, 5 lin. 
Jong; fruit ellipsoid ... aoe Hoe ae .. Ll. M insignis. 
Female receptacle covered from base to apex with bracts, S 
23 lin. long ; fruit globose es cee ... 2. M. Henriquestt. 
1. M. insignis, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 148, fig.5, M-W. A 
shrub or tree; branchlets slender, brown, those of the last order 
reaching 1} lin. in thickness, with internodes generally 1-1? in. long. 
Leaves elliptic, often tapering below the middle to a cuneate base, 
apex abruptly acuminate, 3-3 in. long, tip blunt, base sometimes 
unequal, blunt to acute, margin undulate, somewhat crisped when 
dry, 43-8 in. long, 14-33 in. wide, membranous, shining above, paler 
beneath, glabrous; lateral nerves 9-11 on each side, ascending 
slightly then curving upwards and uniting within the margin, proml- 
nent beneath as is also the reticulate venation ; petiole channelled 
above, rough, the skin peeling in brown flakes, 2-3 lin. long. Stipules 
ovate, acute, 3 lin. long, deciduous. Inflorescences axillary, a pall 
male with a female between standing in each axil, sometimes 
3 or 4 male and no female, sometimes a solitary female. Peduncle 
of male inflorescence slender, }-3 in. long ; head of flowers 2 lin. » 
diam., subtended by 4 ovate-triangular bracts about 1 lin. long ; 
perianth 3-4-lobed, about } lin. long ; lobes bluntly ovate ; stamens 
3-4, opposite the perianth-lobes, barely 1 lin. long. Female inflores- 
cence narrowly ovoid, about 5 lin. long and 2 lin. in diam., bearing 
several ovate bracts at the base, about 3 lin. long, and a few on the 
sides and upper edge, the latter being smaller, $ lin. long. Fruit with 
adnate receptacle ellipsoid, narrowing below into a stalk-like portion, 
10 lin. long, 5 lin. in diam.—Engl. Monogr. Morac. Afr. 30, t. xi. ¢ 
Mozamb. Distr. German Fast Africa: Usambara; forest of Nguelo and 
in the Nderema valley, 3300 ft., Holst, 2270, 2290 ; Nderema, 3100 ft., Heinsem, 
2! sources of the Wuruni River, 4000 ft., Buchwald, 495! Nguelo, Scheffler, 22! 
Amani, Warnecke, 461! Busse, 2219! 
2. M. Henriquesii, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 148. Branches 
flexuous ; internodes on the ultimate branchlets 14-24 im. long: 
