Myrianthus.] CXXIlIc. MORACE® (Rendle). 233 
Mildbraed, Wiss. Ergebn. Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. 1907-8, 
ul. 182, 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Fofui, Poole, 43! Kambui Reserve, Poole, 
332! Gold Coast : Aburi, Brown, 939! Anobelao, Chipp, 125! Ashanti; near 
Dunquali, Cummins, 7! Togo: near Misahohe, Baumann, 430 ; Bismarckburg, 
Biitiner, 44. Dahomey, Le Testu, 240! Northern Nigeria : Lapai, Yates, 34 ! 
Southern Nigeria: Lagos, Moloney! Ajilete, Millen, 117! Yoruba, Millson, 
Barter, 3407! Onitsa, Barter, 1677! Benin, Beauvois ; Unwin, 40! Cross 
River, McLeod! Botanic Gardens, Old Calabar, Holland! Cameroons: Yaunde, 
Zenker, 185! Abo, Buchholz ; Ambas Bay and Cameroon River, Mann, 716! 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Fort Hall, 4000-5000 ft. Battiscombe, 7! 
Hutchins! Uganda: Kivuvu, 4000 ft., Diimmer, 421! Mouth of Kagera River, 
Bagshawe, 159! Lendu Plateau, 4000 ft., Stuhlmann, 2706. 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Dongkila, Klaine, 2700! Lower Congo, Smith ! 
Mayumbe, Districts of the Cataracts and Stanley Pool, Laurent ; Mayumbe, De 
Briey, 49! Kisantu, Gillet, 156. Angola: Golungo Alto; forests about Sange 
and in the Alto Queta and Cungulungulo Mountains, Welwitsch, 2590 ! and fruit, 
901! Pungo Andongo ; forests of Mata de Pungo, Welwitsch, 2591! Cazengo, 
Gossweiler, 578 ! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Monbuttu; by the Kussumbo River, 
Schweinfurth, 3138! Wabadso Forest, Stuhlmann, 2660; Ituri River region, 
3000 ft., Stuhlmann, 2629: between Beni and Irumu at 3700 ft., Mildbraed, 
2765, 2793. Bashilange district ; near Mukenge, Pogge, 1386; Valleys of the 
Fini and Basoko, Laurent; Eala, Laurent, 791; River Sankuru, Demeuse ; 
Munungu, Laurent ; Sankuru and Madibi, Sapin. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Mpororo, 6700 ft., Stuhlmann, 3152 ; 
Usambara ; Silai, Holst, 2302 ! 
2. M. gracilis, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 150. A shrub or small 
tree 5-6 ft. high, branchlets and petioles with very short hairs. 
Leaves with 7 leaflets which are thin, lanceolate, apex long and very 
sharply acuminate, base acute; margin sharply serrate-dentate, very 
unequal, the median which are 24 times as lgng as the outermost 
from 6-11 in. long, 2-3 in. wide, narrowing cuneately from the upper 
third down to the stalk which is 7 lin. long, apex 7-10 lin. long, very 
densely net-veined and very shortly tomentose between the nerves ; 
petiole slender, furrowed, 6-8 in. long. Stipules broadly ovate, with 
appressed hairs on the outside. Male inflorescence much branched, 
covered with short greyish hairs, more than 4 in. long, branches 1}- 
2 in. long, the ultimate branchlets bearing oblong more or less con- 
fluent: flower-clusters 24-5 lin. long and 2 lin. broad. Flowers 3-4- 
merous ; sepals obovate, ciliolate ; stamens rather broadly linear, 
Overtopping the sepals. Female flowers and fruit unknown.—Engl. 
Monogr. Morac. Afr. 39, t. xvii. B.; Mildbraed, Wiss. Ergebn. 
Deutsch. Zentr,-Afr. Exped. 1907-8, ii. 182. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: forest between Barombi-ba-Ubu and Kake, 
Preuss, 478. : 
South Central. Beni: Muera, north-west of Fort Beni, Mildbraed, 2248. 
3. M. elegans, Engl. in Mildbraed, Wiss. Ergebn. Deutsch. Zentr.- 
Afr. Exped. 1907-8, ii. 182. A shrub 6-10 ft. high; branchlets 
slender, when young bearing like the petioles and inflorescences 
