228 CXXIIIc. MORACEZ (Hutchinson). [Treculia. 
2. T. acuminata, Baill. in Adansonia, xi. 292. A shrub 8-10 ft. 
high ; young branches slender, shortly pubescent. Leaves elliptic 
or oblong-obovate, subabruptly but obtusely caudate-acumunate, 
slightly narrowed or rounded to a very obtuse or rounded base, 
3-7 in. long, 14-22 in. broad, acumen }-1 in. long, chartaceous, 
glabrous and dull on both surfaces; lateral nerves 8-10 on each 
side of the midrib, spreading from it at an angle of about 60°, pro- 
minently looped and branched well within the margin; tertiary 
nerves and veins forming a loose conspicuous network below ; petiole 
1-2 lin. long, wrinkled ; stipules subpersistent, linear-lanceolate, 
acute, about } in. long, nearly glabrous, purplish. Male heads very 
shortly pedunculate, axillary, about 2 lin. in diam.; basal bracts 
closely appressed to the receptacle, ovate, about 3 lin. long, slightly 
pubescent outside ;. floral bracts confluent nearly to the apex, the 
small short free tips ovoid or subclavate, tomentose. Perianth very 
small; stamens 2. Female heads globose, about } in. in diam. when 
_in flower, rough with the shortly tomentose tips of the floral bracts 
and the long exserted style-arms ; basal bracts similar to the male 
but more hairy. Floral bracts of two kinds, free for half their length, 
the outer shortly clavate and obtuse, the inner thickly awl-shaped and 
bristly ;_style-arms 4-1 lin. long. Immature fruiting head about 
? m. in diam., bristly with the persistent bracts —N. EK. Br. in Kew 
Bulletin, 1894, 360 ; Engl. Monogr. Morac. Afr. 34. 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Mount John on the River Kongui, Mann, 1804! 
near Libreville, Klaine, 992! 2174! 
3. T. obovoidea, N. H. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 361. A tree 
30 ft. high; young branchlets at first very minutely puberulous. 
Leaves oblong or oblong-elliptic, obtusely and rather abruptly 
acuminate, slightly narrowed to or subcuneate at the apex, 3-7 10. 
long, 1-3} in. broad, chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces ; lateral 
nerves, veins, petiole and stipules as in 7’. acuminata. Male heads 
and bracts as in 7’. acuminata, but the former ellipsoid or obovoid, 
4-3 in. long, up to 5 lin. in diam. Basal bracts rather lax and distant, 
ovate, acute, closely puberulous outside, ciliolate. Perianth tubular, 
lobed at the apex, lobes acute, shortly ciliate. Stamens mostly ¢- 
—T. Staudivi, Engl. in Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. i. zum ii—iv. 120, 
and Monogr. Morac. Afr. 33, t. xiv. fig. A. TZ’. Staudtit, vat- 
angustifolia, Engl. l.c. 34. 
Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria: Old Calabar River, Mann, 2303! 
Thomson, 104! Oban, Talbot, 2316a! 2321! 2335! Cameroons: Johann 
Albrechtshihe, Staudt, 633! 685! 934! Lolodorf, Staudt, 270! Bipinde, 
Zenker, 2526! 3776! 
I have not seen an example of the genus Acanthotreculia, Engl. in Engl: 
Jahrb. xl. 546 (A. Winkleri, Engl. |.c. 548, fig. 2), founded on female materia 
collected by Winkler (1283) and Zenker (2295) in the Cameroons ; but Engler 
figure depicts a plant which I have little doubt is the female of Treculia tage 
N. E. Br. The same prickly female receptacle oceurs in 7. acuminata, Baill, 
