Dorstenia.] cxxiiic. morace.e (Rendle). 57 



portion. Leaves obovate-elliptic to elliptic, shortly acuminate, 

 wedge-shaped below or narrowing towards the base, which may be 

 subcordate, margin entire or wavy, sometimes grossly dentate, 

 3-6 in. long, li-2f in. wide, glabrous, paler green beneath ; lateral 

 nerves about 7 on each side uniting within the margin, impressed 

 above, prominent beneath ; petiole pubescent, 2-6 lin. long. 

 Stipules subulate, 2-3 lin. long, persistent or caducous {Mann, 

 1691). Inflorescence green, solitary in the upper leaf-axils ; stalk 

 1-lf in. long, shortly pubescent or glabrescent [Mann, 1691) ; 

 receptacle lozenge-shaped or irregularly polygonal, with scattered 

 hairs on the back, flowering disc up to J in. long, margin 1-2 lin. 

 wide, continued into numerous narrow -linear glabrous bracts, a few 

 (6 or fewer) of which much exceed the others and are 2-A in. long, 

 broadening below, with a pectinate margin. Male flowers 2-3- 

 androus ; female flowers with projecting 2-fid style. Fruits globular, 

 glabrous, about IJ lin. in diam. — Th. & Hel. Durand, Syll. Fl. 

 Congol. 503 ; N. E. Br. in Bot. Mag. t. 8616. 



Upper Guinea. Caraeroons : between Ebolowa and Kampo, Mildbraedt 

 6200! 



Lower Guinea. Gaboon : Sierra del Crystal, Mann, 1691 ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Yambuya, Laurent, 1997 ! Eala, Brixhe ; 

 Pynaert, 448 ! Mogandjo, Laurent, 2000 ; Injolo, Seret, 797 ; between Ikua and 

 Bouguma, Laurent, 931. 



61. D. turbinata, Engl, in Schlechter, Westafr. Kautsch.-Exped. 

 286 {na7ne only), and in Engl. Jahrh. xxxiii. 115. A small shrub 

 with short branchlets. Leaves shortly stalked, oblanceolate, some- 

 what abruptly acuminate with the extreme apex obtuse, base 

 more or less cuneate, margin entire, 3-5 in. long, 1-lJ in. wide, 

 glabrous or with a few short scattered hairs on the lower face ; lateral 

 nerves 5-7 on each side, arcuately ascending ; petiole puberulous 

 when young, 1-2 lin. long. Receptacle shortly stalked, turbinate, 

 puberulous as are the bracts, surface round, 2| lin. in diam., with 

 4 narrowly lanceolate obtuse bract-arms f in. long and f lin. wide, 

 and 4 alternating shorter bract-arms 5 lin. long and J lin. wide. 

 Flowers not seen. 



Upper Guinea, Cameroons : between Njoke and Malende, 650 ft., Schlechier, 

 12871 ! 



62. D. Ledermannii, Engl in Engl. Jahrh. xlvi. 272. A shrub 

 more than 6 ft. high with branchlets spreading at an acute angle, 

 the internodes of which are 2 in. or less in length ; cortex a dirty 

 brown ; young shoots, petioles, peduncles and receptacles very 

 shortly hairy. Leaves shortly stalked, somewhat papery when dry, 

 obovate to obovate-oblong, abruptly long-acuminate, base cuneate, 

 margin entire or sometimes shortly toothed in the uppermost portion, 

 4-8 in. long, 1J-2J in. wide, glabrous ; lateral nerves 7-10 on each 



