Mesogyne.|  — CXX11Ic. MORACEH (Hutchinson). 223 
Leaves elliptic, apex acuminate (5 lin. long), base obtuse, 8-9 in. 
long, 34-4 in. wide, stiff, somewhat shining on both surfaces ; lJateral 
nerves 10-12 on each side, spreading and curving to unite near the 
margin, very prominent beneath as is the reticulate venation ; petiole 
short, channelled above, 5 lin. long, densely covered with very short 
hairs. Male inflorescences 4 in a leaf-axil with one female ; peduncle 
of male 23-38 lin. long, diameter of head 2 lin.; bracts ovate. Female 
inflorescence sessile, 23 lin. long, ovoid, covered from the base to the 
apex with ovate bracts; ovary subglobose; style rather long; 
‘gees filiform, exserted. Fruit globose——Engl. Monogr. Morac. 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas: near Angolares, Quintas, 164, 
13. ANTIARIS, Lesch.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 371. 
Flowers in the extra-African species moneecious, in the African 
Species dicecious or subdicecious, the male densely capitate, the 
female solitary. Male flower: Perianth 3-4-partite; segments 
Spathulate, imbricate. Stamens 4 or 3, with free short filaments ; 
anthers oblong. Rudimentary ovary 0. Female flower: Perianth 0. 
Ovary included in and adnate to the receptacle; style 2-partite, 
branches subulate, exserted, recurved, stigmatose ; ovule pendulous 
om the apex. Fruit fleshy ; pericarp merged with the receptacle. 
Seed pendulous, with a crustaceous or indurated testa ; albumen 0 ; 
embryo subglobose, with equal fleshy cotyledons; radicle small, 
superior.—Latex-producing trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, 
petiolate, penninerved, entire or serrate. Stipules lateral or connate 
within the petiole, small, caducous. Receptacles shortly peduncu- 
late in the leaf-axils or in the axils of fallen leaves, male often geminate 
or few together, female solitary. 
Species about 9; five or six in the Indian and Malayan region, the following 
three confined to Tropical Africa. 
Veins of the leaves very prominently reticulate on 
the lower surface ... ve ane she ee 
Veins of the leaves rather faint ; leaves 23-3} in. 
broad We ~~ ce ae Be 
Veins of the leaves very faint and lax on the lower 
Surface ; leaves 1-21 in. broad ... fas SS 
1, A. africana. 
2. A. usambarensis. ° 
3. A. Welwitschit. 
1. A. africana, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 119. A very large 
pyramidal tree ; young branches leafy, flexuous, longitudinally 
Stooved and wrinkled, shortly and densely rusty-tomentose. Leaves 
of two kinds ; those on the ‘saplings and perhaps also on the young 
atren shoots elliptic or obovate-elliptic, unequal-sided and subcordate 
at the base, acutely acuminate at the apex, 4-9 in. long, 13-3) in. 
broad, submembranous, denticulate, with several setose hairs on 
