224 CXXIIc. MORACE (Hutchinson). [Antiaris. 
the teeth, setose-scabrid on the upper surface, setose-pilose below ; 
leaves of the young flowering shoots obovate-elliptic, unequal-sided 
and rounded or slightly cordate at the base, 2-5 in. long, 14-3} in. 
broad, entire, with a recurved cartilaginous margin, rigidly chartaceous 
or subcoriaceous, scabrous above, shortly scabrid-pubescent below; 
lateral nerves 6-11 on each side of the midrib, diverging from it at an 
angle of 45°-70°, straight or slightly arcuate, very prominent below ; 
veins deeply and densely reticulate below, very prominent ; petiole 
2-4 lin. long, shortly rusty-tomentose ; stipules caducous, broadly 
ovate; subacute, about 1} lin. long, 13 lin. broad, coriaceous, 
shortly tomentose outside. Flowers dicecious or submoncecious. 
Male receptacles pedunculate, flattened, 3-4 lin. in diam. ; peduncle 
slender, slightly thickened towards the apex, 4-3 in. long, finely 
tomentose. Female flowers shortly pedicellate. Style 2-lobed ; 
lobes subfiliform, about 1} lin. long, puberulous. Fruit drupaceous, 
shortly stalked, ellipsoid, a little over } in. long, very finely mealy- 
tomentose. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Scarcies River, Scott Elliot, 5892! Gold 
Coast : Aburi Sandons, Johnson, 460! Tanosu, Chipp, 97! Togo: near Lome, 
Warnecke, 336! Difala, Kersting! Dahomey: Quidat, Poisson. _ Northern 
Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 1102! 1129! Agaia, Yates, 19! 19b! Yola, Dalziel, 
177! Southern Nigeria: Idda, Barter, 1674! Lagos, Moloney! Ibadan forest 
peri Punch, 111! and without precise locality, Dodd, 399! Fernando Po, 
arter ! 
2. A. usambarensis, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 119. A large 
tree with a broad crown and whitish wood ; internodes of the young 
branchlets about 24 lin. long, covered with dark rusty-brown hairs. 
Leaves obliquely ovate, 4—5 in. long, 23-34 in. broad, subcoriaceous, 
scabrous on the midrib and nerves, the latter and the transverse 
veins prominent below; lateral nerves 7-8 on each side of the midrib. 
Fruiting receptacles pedunculate, a little over } in. long, about 4 1- 
— dark blood-red, hairy. Seed about 4 in. long and 3} lin. 
thick. 
"Sram Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; near Derema, Scheffler; 
6. 
_Thave not seen an authentic example of this species. According to Engler it 
differs from A. africana in its larger leaves with less prominent venation aM 
larger fruiting receptacles, but an imperfect specimen in the British Museum 
collected by Zimmermann (921) near Amani and named A. usambarensis has 
very prominent venation. 
__ A specimen collected by Dawe (842) in Uganda may possibly belong here ; 
it is described as an immense tree affording a bark cloth and common in Uganda ; 
the native name is Kirundo. 
8. A. Welwitschii Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 118. A hand- 
some tree with the aspect of a large Alnus, 30-60 ft. high or sometimes 
taller and the trunk reaching 3-3} ft. in diameter at the base $ 
