Dorstenia.] cxxiiic. MORACEiE (Rendle). 37 



to ciineate, apex rounded to shortly acuminate, mucronulate, base 

 blunt, margin sinuate above the middle, 2-3 J in. long, 1-1 J in. wide, 

 dark green and sparsely strigose above, paler and more hairy beneath, 

 especially on the veins ; lateral nerves 4-6 on each side, ascending, 

 somewhat prominent on the lower face ; petiole hairy like the young 

 shoot, J-li in. long. Stipules narrow linear-subulate, persistent, to 

 2 lin. long. Inflorescences small, 1-3 in each leaf -axil in the upper 

 part of the stem ; stalk slender, shorter than the petiole, 4-5 lin. 

 long, somewhat hirsute, as is also the convex back of the orbicular 

 receptacle ; receptacle about J in. in diam., bordered with numerous 

 (about 18) triangular acute teeth §-f lin. long. Male flowers 

 2-androus ; perianth-segments 2, fleshy, somewhat lunate ; anthers 

 brown-purple ; female distributed throughout the disc which is 

 strongly protogynous; style shortly 2-fid ; fruit subglobose; endocarp 

 slightly verruculose, f lin. in diam. 



Nile Land. Uganda : Mabira forest at 4000 ft., Brown, 460 ! 



17. D. quercifolia, R. E. Fries in Arkiv. Bot. xiii. no. 1, 8, t. 1, 

 figs. 1-3. A fleshy herb with one or more shoots ascending from 

 a short thick fleshy rhizome lJ-2 in. long and 4-8 lin. thick ; stems 

 6-8 in. high, 2^-3 lin. thick at the base, and about IJ lin. towards 

 the apex, laxly clothed with short spreading hairs, leafy at the 

 apex with short internodes, naked below and marked with the dark 

 scars of the fallen leaves. Leaves somewhat fleshy, somewhat narrowly 

 obovate, obtuse, narrowing below and passing into the petiole, 

 margin sinuate above, becoming entire below, 1^-2 J in. long, 1-1 J 

 in. wide, glabrous above, sparsely hirtellous below ; lateral nerves 

 6-8 on each side, prominent on the lower face ; petiole 2^5 lin. 

 long. Stipules very small, triangular, acute, caducous, J lin. 

 long. Inflorescence solitary in the leaf-axils ; stalk J-J in. long ; 

 receptacle depressed-turbinate ; disc orbicular, 3J-5 lin. broad, 

 with a margin of numerous triangular teeth J— J lin. long and a few 

 (8-10) larger narrowly triangular acute bract-arms up to 3 lin. long. 

 Female flowers numerous, distributed throughout the disc ; style 

 about i lin. long, 2-fid at the apex. Fruit subglobose, J lin. in diam. ; 

 endocarp verruculose. — R. E. Fries in Wiss, Ergebn. Schwed. Rhodes. - 

 Kongo-Exped. 1911-12, i. 13. 



South Central. Congo : Kasindi; Lake Albert Edward, Fries, 1799. 

 Not seen ; described from the good figure. 



18. D. vivipara, Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 70. iStem 

 weak, slender, herbaceous, from a globose tuber the size of a pea or 

 hazel-nut, erect at first then decumbent or ascending, rootiLg at 

 the lower nodes at which small axillary tubercles are borne, 6-8 

 in. high, simple, pubescent above. Leaves long-stalked, thinly 

 membranous, apex obtuse to subacute, base abruptly narrowed. 



