Treculia.] CXXIIIc. MORACEZ (Hutchinson). 229 
but in that species, as in the male heads, it is globose and not ellipsoid as in 
Engler’s plant. The male receptacles of 7’. obovoidea are, however, ellipsoid or 
obovoid, and a corresponding shape might be expected in the case of the female, 
a condition which is fulfilled in Engler’s Acanthotreculia. 
4. T. Zenkeri, Engl. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. i. zum 
li~iv. 121. A slender shrub 6-8 ft. high ; young branchlets twiggy, 
minutely puberulous. Leaves oblong-elliptic or obovate-elliptic, 
abruptly and obtusely caudate-acuminate, narrowed or rounded to 
the base, 4-83 in. long, 1-3 in. broad, chartaceous, glabrous on both 
surfaces, with prominent straw-coloured venation below; midrib 
slightly impressed above, very prominent below; lateral nerves 
6-12, diverging from the midrib at a wide angle, prominently looped 
and branched well within the margin, sometimes slightly impressed 
above, prominent below; venation slender and rather loose, con- 
spicuous below ; petiole 2-3 lin. long, wrinkled and minutely puberu- 
lous; stipules subpersistent, parallel with the shoot, lanceolate, 
acute, 2-3 lin. long, somewhat rigidly chartaceous, finely puberulous 
outside. Male flower-heads at the apex of a short axillary bracteate 
peduncle, globose, in the young state about 1} lin. in diam., at length 
3 lin. in diam., with a conspicuous covering of peltate tipped puberu- 
lous bracts. Male perianth-lobes shortly ciliate ; stamens 2; fila- 
ments exserted, glabrous; anthers } lin. long, broadly ellipsoid. 
Female heads not known.—Engl. Monogr. Morac. Afr. 34, t. xv. fig. A. 
Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria: Oban district, Talbot, 654! 1506! 
Cameroons : Efulen, Bates, 393! Bipinde, Zenker, 1045! 
5. T. mollis, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xl. 546. A tree 50-70 ft. 
high ; young branchlets pubescent, about 13 lin. thick ; internodes 
3-1 in. long. Leaves elliptic or oblong-elliptic, subcordate and very 
unequal-sided at the base, caudate-acuminate at the apex, 6-9 in. 
long, 3~34 in. broad, acumen subobtuse, # in. long, rigidly chartaceous, 
glabrous above, pilose-pubescent below; midrib very prominent 
below, about 1} lin. broad at the base, pubescent ; lateral nerves 
about 13 on each side of the midrib, diverging from it at an angle 
of about 65°, curved, looped close to the margin, very prominent 
below ; tertiary nerves lax and slender ; petiole about } in. long, 
pubescent ; . stipules caducous, lanceolate, acute, 4 lin. long, very 
Shortly puberulous. Male inflorescence globose, about # in. in diam., 
very shortly pedunculate, with suborbicular bracts at the sin 
floral bracts with peltate apices about ? lin. in diam. Stamens 2; 
anthers linear, obtuse. Female flowers not known. 
Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria: Oban, Talbot, 635! Cameroons : 
Bipinde, Zenker, 3333 ! 
6. T. parva, Engl. in Pflanzenfam. Nachir. i. zum iiiv. 121. A 
small eas up to 34 ft. high ; young branchlets slender, subterete, 
