Musanga.| CXXIlIc. MORACE (Rendle). 239 
long-stalked, large, divided almost to the base into numerous 
radiately spreading segments ; segments entire, narrow, wedge- 
shaped, rounded above and abruptly shortly acuminate, penni- 
veined, folded in bud lengthwise along the midrib with several twans- 
verse folds in the upper part. Stipules large, connate, enclosing the 
young bud and the inflorescence, soon falling. Male inflorescences 
solitary or in pairs in the leaf-axils; peduncle bearing several re- 
peatedly forked branches ; flowers in numerous small round heads 
each of which terminates a short ultimate branch. Among the 
flowers are scattered slender long-stalked bracts ending in a small 
round or half-round blade. Female inflorescences in pairs in the 
leaf-axil; flowers minute, very numerous, densely arranged on all 
sides of a somewhat compressed ovate or oblong disc borne erect on 
a stiff stalk, with interspersed threadlike bracts which are united 
below with the perianth. 
Species 1, tropical Africa. 
1. M. Smithii, R. Br. App. Tuck. Congo, 453. Stem often un- 
branched and reaching 30 ft. in height, or branched forming a large 
‘town when it may reach over 40 ft. with a diameter of 16-20 inches, 
or according to Gossweiler 80 ft. with a trunk diameter of 5 ft. ; 
prop-roots often occur round the base. The upper ends of the leafy 
stem and branches stout, to 14 in. thick, fully elongated internodes 
1-1} in. long with a stout pith. Large groups of mucilage-cells and 
mucilage-spaces occur in pith and cortex. Leaf-segments to 16 in. 
long, 2-33 in. wide below the top, polished and green above, greyish 
with the short tomentum beneath ; lateral nerves numerous, regular, 
Somewhat ascending, from 2-4 lin. apart, very conspicuous on the 
lower face and joined by numerous regular subparallel veinlets ; 
petiole to 2 ft. long, sometimes with a few long hairs. Stipular 
sheaths 6-8 in. long, 1-1} in. wide, scarlet outside and densely hairy. 
Peduncle of male inflorescence about 4 in. long; heads of flowers 
about 2 lin. in diam.; bracteoles about as long as the perianth, 
lin. ; perianth hairy below the apex. Female inflorescence 3-i in. 
long, and about } in. thick, with a peduncle 2-5 in. long, in the 
Mature fruit yellowish-green, succulent, 2}-5 in. long, 13-2 in. 
Toad. Endocarp narrowly ovoid, pale brown, about 1 lin. long.— 
Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. B. 181, 292, C. 162, and Monogr. Morac. Afr. 42, 
t. 18; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 250; De Wild. & 
Durand in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me sér. i. 49; De Wild. Not. Pl. 
Utiles &e. du Congo, 11, and Miss. EB. Laurent, 72; Th. & Hél. 
Durand, Syll. Flor. Congol. 511; Mildbraed, Wiss. Ergebn. Deutsch. 
ntr. Afr. Exped. 1907-8, ii. 182. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Vohsen ; Smythe, 222! Clements! 
he ral le npg a : hi 4! 35! Ashanti, Teddie! Coomassie, 
Liberia: Tappi, Bunting, 3 Gold Coast : 
Cummins, 108 ! Togo: Agome Mountains, Baumann, 200! | 
ano River, Chipp, 337! Burton d: Cameron! Cameroons: River Ja, Bates | 
