236 CXXIIIc. MORACEH (Rendle). [Myrianthus. 
ovoid, about 7 lin. long and 5-6 lin. in diam., fleshy wall of perianth 
about 1 lin. thick, endocarp about 3 lin. thick—Engl. Mon. Morac. 
Afr. 40, t. xvii. fig. C. Dicranostachys serrata, Trécul in Ann. Sci. 
Nat. sér. 3, viii. 85, t. 1, figs. 1-8. 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea: near Futa Jallon, Heudelot, 840! Ditinn, 
Chevalier, 12971! Sierra Leone: various localities, Scott Elliot, 4439! 4560! 
4811 ! 5059 ! 5267! 5881! Thomas, 157 ! 181 ! 2128 ! 3438 ! 3782 ! 6545 ! 6632 ! 
6682 ! 8243 ! 8653 ! 8747 ! 9459 ! 9720! 9736! 10124! 10490! Liberia: Sinoe 
Basin, Whyte! Ivory Coast: Zaranou and Yaou, Chevalier, 162761! Gold 
Coast: Atanaso, Chipp, 229! Tano River, Chipp, 341! Togo: Bismarck- 
burg, Biittner, 689. Nigeria: various localities, Vogel! Barter, 1100! Mann, 
2273! Dalziel, 915! 
4. M. cuneifolius, Engl. Monogr. Morac. Afr. 40, t. xvii. D. A 
bush or small tree “12 ft. high” (Mann); branchlets cylindrical, 
clothed when young, like the petioles and inflorescence, with short 
stiff pointed upcurved hairs ; internodes 3-2 in. long, 4 in. thick, 
becoming hollow. Leaves leathery, elliptical-oblanceolate, apex 
acuminate, narrowing below the middle to the obtuse somewhat 
truncate base, sometimes deeply 3-5-lobed, the two outer lateral 
lobes much smaller than the median, margin sinuate-dentate, teeth 
short, pointing upwards, becoming fewer at the base, varying greatly 
in size, 6-14 in. long, 24-6 in. wide, in the lobed leaves the median 
lobes to 16 in. long, 43 in. wide, the lateral lobes to 9 in. long and 
23 in. wide, upper face glabrous and shining, with a dense white 
tomentum beneath, midrib with ascending lateral veins (about 15 
on each side) and connecting veinlets prominent ‘beneath ; petioles 
reddish when dry, very unequal but much shorter than the blade, 
2-42 in. long. Male inflorescences as in M. serratus, peduncle $-{ 0. 
long, the short branches of the last two grades, 3-5 lin. long, bearing 
a continuous mass of flowers; bracteoles overtopping the flower- 
buds, somewhat club-shaped, the broad concave upper part ciliolate ; 
flowers 2-4-merous ; segments of perianth distinct, with a broad 
base and a broader rounded concave upper part which is ciliolate 
on the back; stamens with filaments sometimes united. Female 
inflorescence and flowers as in M. serratus, the ovoid perianth covered 
with stiffish appressed upwardly directed brown hairs.—WM. serratus, 
var. cuneifolius, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 150. 
Lower Guinea. Spanish Guinea: Kongui River, Mann, 1819! Gaboon’ 
River Gaboon, Mann, 1051! Sibange, Soyauax, 381! 
8. M. libericus, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1915, 354. A bush ; youns 
branchlets, petioles and inflorescence bearing a greyish-brown pubes: 
cence. Leaves thinly leathery, broadly oblong-elliptical or 3-fi 
with a large elliptical-oblong middle segment and small latera 
segments, apex abruptly and sharply acuminate, base obtuse, margin 
unequally toothed, teeth sharp, pointing upwards, 11-12 in. long, 
5} in. wide, upper face sparsely hairy, lower tomentose as 1D /" 
