232 CXXIIIc, MORACE (Rendle). [Myrianthus. 
becoming wedge-shaped below, or sometimes broader and elliptical 
to obovate-elliptical, the median one larger, the lateral gradually 
smaller, apex generally shortly sometimes abruptly acute, base 
generally obtuse, margin serrate-dentate often unequally, the median 
segments 8-20 in. long, 34-8 in. wide, the outside segments about 
half as long as the median, upper face sparsely pilose, lower with 
short hairs on the veins and cobwebby-hairy in the meshes; secondary 
nerves numerous, regular, ascending, prominent beneath. Leaves 
of seedling simple, ovate-elliptical. Petiole short, longitudinally 
furrowed, generally shorter than the leaf. Stipules ovate-acute, 
forming a pointed cap 3-1} in. long round the young leaves, densely 
covered with silky hairs, caducous. Male inflorescences axillary, 
ferruginously hairy, hairs very short; bracts small, ovate-acute, 
soon falling ; peduncle varying very much in length from barely 2 
to 7 in., dividing into usually 4 shorter branches which subdivide 
repeatedly in an irregularly dichotomous manner ; branchlets of the 
last few grades } in. or less in length, cylindrical, the surface forming 
a continuous mass of flowers which are at first yellow but after the 
dehiscence of the anthers brownish-gold; floral bracts obovate- 
cuneate, curving upwards and partially covering the flower ; perianth 
generally 4-partite, about 4 lin. long, segments broadly obovate, 
concave ; stamens about as long as the perianth, free or filaments 
sometimes more or less united. Female inflorescences in pairs, sub- 
globose, about 1} in. in diam. ; peduncle stout, to about 2 in. long 
and 5 lin. thick; bracts at base of stalk ovate-lanceolate, 2-24 lin. 
long, at base of head shortly ovate, 1 lin. long, soon falling ; flowers 
densely crowded ; floral bracts linear-spathulate, irregularly arranged 
among the flowers, a little shorter than the perianth; perianth 
obovoid, 4-6-angled, with depressed or truncate upper portion 
covered with small warts and short conical hairs surrounding the 
narrow mouth, 2~23 lin. high, fleshy, becoming thicker upwards (to 
1 line). Ovary shortly ovoid, about 1 lin. long, passing above into a 
cylindrical style of about the same length which bears a broad lanceo- 
late stigma recurving from the mouth of the perianth, 1} lin. long. 
Ripe compound fruit yellow, large, depressed globose or excentrically 
ovoid, to about 4 in. in diam. ; perianth thick and fleshy, minutely 
warted above, about 7 lin. across and 344 lin. thick in the upper 
portion ; fruit # in. long and about half as thick, outer wall very 
thin ; endocarp $-3 lin. thick, enclosing the ovoid seed ; testa thin, 
brown ; cotyledons of equal length, thick, plano-convex.—R. Br. 
App. to Capt. Tuckey’s Narrative, 453; Spreng. Syst. iil. 19; 
Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, 273; Engl. Pl. Ost-Afr. B. 181, 293, C. 162, and 
Monogr. Morac. Afr. 37, t. 16; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 995; 
Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 214; De Wild. & Durand, 
Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 54, ii. 58, and in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me sér. i. 49; 
De Wild. Miss. KE. Laurent, 71, 377, and Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen- 
Congo, ii. 31, iii, 66; Th. & Hél, Durand, Syll. Flor. Congol. 510; 
