238 CXXIIIc. MORACE (Rendle). [| Myrianthus. 
10. M. Talbotii, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1915, 354. Leaf-bearing 
twigs with long hollow cylindrical internodes, } in. thick, bearing in 
the young state short whitish appressed hairs. Leaves with 5-8 
stalked leaflets ; leaflets membranous when dry, broadly oblanceo- 
late or oblong-elliptical, apex sharply acuminate, base acute passing 
into the stalk, margin more or less sharply toothed, teeth upeurved, 
9 in. to 14 ft. long, including the stalk which is }-1 in. long, 3-5 in. 
wide, the lateral pair much smaller, upper face smooth and shining, 
lower face whitish with the short tomentum which occupies the 
interstices of the veins, midrib and numerous ascending secondary 
veins prominent ; petiole with long slender furrows and bearing 
short appressed hairs, nearly or quite as long as the leaf. Stipules 
broadly ovate, acuminate, shortly hairy, 7-8 lin. long. Inflorescences 
in pairs ; male when fully developed 9 in. broad, on a stout stalk 
7 in. long and 2 lin. thick; bracts caducous ; branches (4-5) re- 
peatedly forked, the short branchlets of the last two or three grades 
densely and continuously covered with the male flowers, and 2-4 lin. 
long and 1 lin. thick ; perianth-segments 4, free nearly to the base, 
obovate, concave and stouter above, barely 1 lin. long; stamens 
3-4, free, as long as the perianth; bracteoles shorter than the 
perianth, broadly spathulate, ciliolate on the back above. Female 
flowers about 20 in a spherical head 4-3 in. in diam., on a stalk about 
3-1} in. long ; bracteoles narrowly oblong to oblanceolate, tapering 
to the base, densely shortly hairy on the back, a little over 1 lin. 
long ; perianth narrowly ovoid, 23-3 lin. long, hirtellous, narrowing 
to the mouth through which projects the long brown-haired stigma. 
Head of fruits 14-2 in. in diam. on a stout stalk 14-2 in. long ; fruits 
4-10, ovoid, united below, beaked with the narrow mouth of the 
persistent perianth. 
Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria; Oban and Eket districts, Talbot! Came 
roons: Bipinde, Zenker, 1100! 
16. MUSANGA, R. Br.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 379. 
Flowers dicecious. Male flowers: Perianth obovoid-tubular with 
a narrow truncate or sometimes faintly 2-lobed mouth. Stamem 
one; filament straight, cylindrical; anther short, ellipsoidal, ex 
serted, dehiscing longitudinally. Rudimentary ovary absent. 
Female flowers: Perianth narrow-tubular, constricted below the 
middle above the ovary, above which it becomes much thicker and 
closely invests the style. Ovary ovoid with a long slender terminal 
style, projecting at the narrow mouth of the perianth where it beats 
a spreading brush-like stigma. Ovule erect from the base of the 
ovary. Fruit enveloped in the persistent somewhat fibrous periant?, 
exocarp thin, endocarp crustaceous, hard, shiny. Seed conforms 
to the endocarp ; seed-coat thin; albumen scanty ; cotyledons large: 
plano-conyex, radicle superior—A small tree. Leaves alternate, 
