50 cxxiiic. MORACE^ (Rendle). [Dorstenia. 



pubescent ; lateral nerves about 6 on each side, ascendine;, slightly 

 prominent beneath ; petiole 1-1| in. long in the lower leaves, the 

 uppermost less than \ in. Stipules small, linear-tapering, deciduous. 

 Inflorescence solitary, as in D. psilurus but smaller and Innately 

 curved, about 1 in. long, upper process almost filiform, 1-lJ in., 

 lower filiform 2 lin. long. Flowers as in D. psilurus. Endocarp 

 globose, whitish brown, IJ lin. in diam.- — Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 

 276 ; Engl. Monogr. Morac. Afr. 19, t. viii. A. 



Nile Land. Niamniam : Tukami's Seriba, Schweinfurth, 3788 ! 



47. D. psilurus, Wehv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 71. A herb 

 persisting by a creeping cylindrical knotted fleshy rhizome bearing 

 long slender root-fibres ; stem erect, simple, l-2Jft. high, somewhat 

 succulent, laxly leaved and glabrescent below, towards the apex 

 densely leaved and pubescent. Leaves long-stalked, membranous, 

 polymorphic often on the same specimen, cuneate and entire below, 

 rarely obtuse, sometimesovate-elliptic or oblong-elliptic andacuminate 

 with a weakly toothed margin, sometimes obovate or obcuneate 

 and more or less deeply cut towards the apex or 3- to several-lobed ; 

 lobes unequal, erect or spreading, narrow triangular, acuminate, 

 4-6 in. long, lJ-3 in. wide, with a few scattered adpressed hairs on 

 the upper face, paler and hirtellous along the nerves beneath ; 

 lateral nerves 6-7 on each side, rather prominent beneath, ascending ; 

 petiole slender, sparsely pubescent, 2 in. long in the lower leaves, 

 becoming shorter above. Stipules small, narrowly lanceolate or 

 linear-acuminate, 1-1 J lin. long, pubescent, subpersistent. In- 

 florescence solitary, long-stalked, vertical ; receptacle linear-lanceo- 

 late, green, scarcely fleshy, to IJ in. long, passing above into a long 

 erect linear tapering appendage, 2J-3J in. long, which is slightly 

 dilated at the apex, base shortly prolonged beyond the stalk and 

 passing into a short upwardly curving appendage, J in. long or 

 less ; peduncle 1-2 in. long. Male flowers 1-androus, limb of the 

 very thin perianth shortly and irregularly 3-4-dentate or almost 

 obsolete ; female flowers fewer, inserted in a row on either side of 

 the middle line ; style dividing above the level of the disc into 

 two linear spreading stigmas. Fruit globose, about 1 lin. in diam. — 

 Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 272 ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, 269 ; Engl. 

 Monogr. Morac. Afr. 20 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 1025 ; De 

 Wild. :^tudes Fl. Katanga, i. 29, ii. 31, ^^tudes Fl. Bas- et 

 Moyen-Congo, i. 119, ii. 123, t. Ix., iii. 64, PI. Nov. Herb. 

 Hort. Thenen. i. 229, t. liii, Miss. 1^. Laurent. 70 and PI. Thonner. 

 Congol. ii. 298; De Wild. & Th. Durand, PI. Thonner. 10; Th. & 

 Hel. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 503. D. psiluroides, Engl, in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xlvi. 274. 



Nile Land. Uganda : Unyoro, 3000 ft., Brown, 387 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Pungo Andongo ; in shady valleys, especially in 

 the forest " Mata de Pungo," 3200 ft., Welwitsch, 1564 ! 



