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Tap. 7676. 
DORSTENIA PaItuipsiz. 
Native of Somaliland. 
Nat. Ord. Urticacex.—Tribe Mores, 
Genus Dorstenta, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 366.) 
Dorstenta Phillipsie; caule 8-4-pollicari crassitie digiti minimi erecto 
lignoso cylindrico basi dilatato conico 1} poll. diam., superne } in. diam., 
undique grosse cicatricato, apice in ramos breves crassos cylindricos 
desinente, ramis foliis et inflorescentia terminatis, foliis 1}—-2-pollicaribus 
breviter crasse que petiolatis lineari-oblongis acutis argute dentatis satu- 
rate viridibus glaberrimis, costa valida, nervis utrinque 8-10 patulis, pedun- 
.eulis axillaribus 1}-2-pollicaribus, receptaculo carnoso late campanulato 
puberalo, disco plano $-} poll. lato margine incrassato in lacinias 6-8 
crassas subulatas radiatas flexuosas pollicares fisso, fl. masc. non immersis, 
erianthio minimo papilloso, stamivibus 2, fl. fem. alveolis profundis 
immersis, stylo filiformi integro exserto, stigmate punctiforme. 
D. Phillipsie, Hook. f. 
This remarkable plant belongs to a section of the genus 
Dorstenia, the species of which have the habit of diminutive 
trees, with very stout, leafless, cylindric, scarred trunks, 
sparingly, shortly branched above, and terminal clusters of 
leaves. The type of the section is D. fetida, Schweinf. & 
Engler (Monogr. Afr. Pl. p. 26) which is Kosaria fetida of 
Forskahl’s Fl. Aigypt. Arab., well figured at tab. 20 of his 
Icones, a native of Arabia Felix. (Other synonyms are 
Cosaria Forskahlii, Gmel., and Dorstenia radiata, Lamk.). 
A few other species are natives of Nileland, Abyssinia, 
and Arabia. Amongst the latter is D. arabica, Hemsl. 
(Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2503), collected in S.W. Arabia by the 
late Mr. Bent. D. Phiilipsiz is closely allied to D. fetida, 
but differs in the stem being erect from a dilated conical 
base, in the sharply toothed leaves, in the long peduncles 
of the receptacle, and in the much larger size of the latter, 
which has thickened margins, and fewer, much longer rays. 
D, Phillipsix is another of the new and very interesting 
plants brought by Mrs. Lort Phillips and Miss Edith Cole 
from Somaliland, of which Kleinia pendula, t. 7659, and 
Kalanchoe flammea, t. 7595, are other examples. A plant 
was presented to the Botanic Garden of the University 
SerremBer Isr, 1899. 
