~ 
Antiaris.] CXXIIIc. MORACEA (Hutchinson). 225 
head depressed-dilated, very ample and majestic, evergreen ; trunk 
straight, bare of branches up to 15-20 ft. from the ground, patently 
branched above, lower branches almost horizontal or even drooping, 
the upper erect-spreading; young branchlets flexuous, coarsely 
ribbed when dry, very slightly pubescent. Leaves oblong-elliptic, 
rounded or very shortly acuminate at the apex, slightly unequal and 
rounded or truncate at the base, 2-4 in. long, 1-2} in. broad, entire, 
chartaceous, minutely puberulous and coppery-red below; lateral 
nerves 7-1] on each side of the midrib, diverging from it at an angle 
of 45° or more, arcuate, prominent below ; veins very lax; petiole 3-4 
lin. long, finely puberulous ; stipules caducous. Flowers diccious. 
Male receptacles borne on the young annual shoots, shortly peduncu- 
late, discoid with many bracts onthe margin. Anthers sessile, ovate. 
Female receptacles borne on the young shoots, shortly pedunculate. 
Young fruits greenish, tipped with a long 2-fid style or rarely with 
several styles ; ripe fruits drupaceous, obovoid, about 3 in. long and 
2 in. in diam., shortly pedunculate, mucronate, one-seeded, softly 
velvety-tomentose, orange-red when fresh; embryo large, white ; 
all parts of the tree, especially the fruit, exuding a viscid resinous 
whitish milk.—Ipo towicaria, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 1020, 
excl. syn., not of Pers. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; forests of the Alto Queta Moun- 
tains, Welwitsch, 2593 ! 
The description of the habit of this tree has been taken from the Welwitsch 
Catalogue, and that of the male receptacles from Engler. 
14. TRECULIA, Decne; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 374. 
Flowers dicecious, capitate in both sexes, arranged on the outside 
of and densely surrounded by the bracts of the fleshy receptacle, 
the head shortly stalked with a few bracts at the base. Male flowers : 
Perianth tubular, membranous, 2-4-fid at the apex or dentate, 
thickened at the base. Stamens 2-4, often 3, sometimes one im- 
perfectly developed; anthers oblong or ovate, erect, exserted. 
Rudimentary ovary 0. Female flowers: Perianth0. Ovary ovoid, 
enclosed by the fleshy receptacle or the bracts; style subulate, 
with stigmatose exserted filiform branches; ovule pendulous from 
the apex. Fruit a syncarp, globose, sometimes very large, bristly 
With the bracts surrounding the flowers; achenes in an indefinite 
Series in the fleshy part of the syncarp; pericarp membranous. 
ovoid or ellipsoid, with a membranous testa ; albumen 0; 
embryo with unequal cotyledons.—Trees or shrubs, glabrous or 
iry. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, entire, corlaceous or 
chartaceous, penninerved ; stipules lanceolate, caducous. Flower- 
heads in the leaf-axils or at leafless nodes, sessile or shortly pedun- 
culate. Bracts below the head few, small, sub-2-seriate, not forming 
PL. TROP, AFR. VI. SECT. II. Q 
