230 CXXIIIc. MORACE# (Hutchinson). [Treculia. 
minutely tomentose, at length glabrous. Leaves oblong or 
slightly oblong-oblanceolate, caudate-acuminate, acumen } in. long, 
obtuse, subcuneate and unequal-sided at the base, 2-3} in. long, 
3-11 in. broad, thinly chartaceous, glabrous and rather dull on both 
surfaces ; lateral nerves about 7 on each side of the midrib, diverging 
from it at an angle of about 65°, prominent below and conspicuously 
looped and branched well within the margin; veins fairly loose 
but distinct below ; petiole curved, about 2 lin. long, shortly puberu- 
lous ; stipules subpersistent, linear-lanceolate, acute, 23 lin. long, 
glabrous. Male inflorescence not seen, according to Engler sub- 
globose, small, with ovate ciliolate bracts at the base; peduncle 
at first about as long as the petiole, at length 2-3 times as long, 
bearing numerous subovate shortly silky-pilose bracts. Floral 
bracts with an orbicular peltate apex. Male flowers with 1 stamen, 
the perianth overtopping the bracts ; stamen elongate-clubshaped, 
14 times as long as the perianth ; anthers ovoid—Engl. Monogr. 
Morac. Afr. 34, t. xv. fig. B. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 983! 4907! 
15. MYRIANTHUS, P. Beauv. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 379. 
Flowers dicecious. Male flowers small, yellow. Perianth deeply 
divided into 3 or 4 obovate concave segments. Stamens generally 
equal in number and opposite to the perianth-segments, free or some 
or all more or less united by their filaments; filaments narrow ; 
anthers generally slightly exserted, ellipsoidal. Rudimentary ovary 
absent. Female flowers: Perianth obovoid or ovoid, forming round 
the ovary a sac with a narrow mouth. Ovary ovoid, passing above 
into a short cylindrical style which bears a single broad stigma just 
above the mouth of the perianth; stigma densely covered with 
brown hairs on the upper face ; ovule erect from the base. Fruits 
ovoid, enveloped in the persistent fleshy perianth, crowded in a 
spherical or ovoid head on the slightly or much swollen receptacle, 
connate below the middle or at the base ; endocarp hard, enclosing 
the seed. Seed-coat thin; albumen absent ; cotyledons thick, 
plano-convex, equal_—Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, simple, 
3-5-lobed or palmately compound with 5 or more leaflets ; leaves 
or leaflets elliptical to oblanceolate, with a pointed apex and generally 
sharply-toothed margin ; under face generally covered with a dense 
short whitish tomentum between the conspicuously reticulated vein- 
lets ;_petioles generally long, but usually shorter than the blades. 
Stipules united to form a conical covering round the apical bud, 
densely hairy. Inflorescences in pairs in the leaf-axils; bracts on 
the axis and branches small and soon falling. Male: Peduncle 
stout, generally shorter than the petiole, dividing into 3 or more 
spreading branches which fork repeatedly ; flowers borne on the short 
