Dorstenia.] cxxinc. morace^e (Rendle). 49 



very short petiole, margin entire or repand-crenate, about 5J in. 

 long and 2 in. wide, bearing on both faces small stiff scattered hairs ; 

 midrib fleshy ; lateral nerves 5-6 on each side, fleshy, curving upwards 

 and uniting ; petiole 7 lin. long, winged, glabrous. Inflorescences 

 solitary ; stalk 1 J lin. long, attached near the base of the receptacle ; 

 receptacle narrowly oblong, 9-6 lin. long, 2-2 J lin. broad, with a 

 single bract from the upper end, 2| in. long and springing from 

 beneath the edge of the receptacle, rounded at the base. Male flowers 

 3-4-androus, with 3-4-lobed perianth ; female distributed throughout 

 the disc ; style 2 -fid. Fruit 4-hedral ; endocarp thinly crustaceous, 

 war ted. 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Eastern Usambara ; near Kifalufalu, 

 Amani, 2544. 



45. D. scaphigera, Bureau in Bull. Mas. Hist. Nat. Paris, i. 60. 

 A small shrub with erect woody stems reaching 3 ft. in height, 

 pubescent when young, soon becoming glabrous. Leaves shortly 

 stalked, membranous, narrowly obovate-elliptic or elliptic, acuminate, 

 base wedge-shaped, margin undulate, 2J-6|- in. long, 1-3 in. wide, 

 upper face glabrous, shining, puberulous on the stronger nerves on 

 the lower face ; lateral nerves 6-9 on each side, arcuately ascending 

 and uniting near the margin ; petiole 2J-5 lin. long. Stipules 

 setaceous, about 1 lin. long, caducous. Inflorescence solitary ; 

 receptacle narrow, boat-shaped, l|-lj in. long, relatively few- 

 flowered, with a broad (3 lin.) membranous sinuate veined margin 

 which is not prolonged into teeth or arms ; stalk slender, pubescent, 

 5-6 lin. long. Male flowers 2-androus ; perianth obscurely 2-lobed ; 

 female few (2 or 3) deeply sunk in the median line of the receptacle ; 

 ovary deeply sunk ; style very short, dividing into 2 linear spreading 

 recurved stigmas on reaching the surface. — Engl. Monogr. Morac. 

 Afr. 19 ; De Wild. PI. Nov. Hort. Thenen. i. 227, t. 52 ; De Wild. 

 & Durand, PL Thonner. Congol. 11 and Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. fasc. 

 ii. 58 ; Th. & Hel. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 503 ; De Wild. PI. 

 Thonner. Congol. ii. 299. 



North Central. French Congo : Upper Kemo River, Dyhowaki. 

 South Central. Belgian Congo : Bena Dibeia, Lxija ; Konduc (Sankuru)and 

 vicinity, Luja, 1, 32, 81 ; Bangala ; Bobi, near Gali, Thonner, 45. 



46. D. bicornis, Schweinf. in Bot. Zcit. 1871, 332. Stems her- 

 baceous, a foot high, 2 or 3 rising erect from a creeping cylindrical 

 much-branched flesh\ rhizome, which is \ in. or less in thickness, 

 pubescent as are the petioles, densely leiived towards the apex. 

 Leaves, lower long-stalked, thinly membranous, elliptic to obovate 

 or obcuneate, apex acute to acuminate, mucronulate, narrowing 

 below to a somewhat obtuse or acute base, margin rarely entire, 

 generally undulate or more or less grossly dentate to deeply cut 

 in the upper part, 4-5 in. long, 1^2} in. wide, ^labrescent or with 

 scattered adprcssed hairs on the upper face, nervea beneath sparsely 



