Dorstenia.] cxxiiic. morace-s: (Rendle). 61 



tapering from a narrow triangular base, about 2 lin. long, somewhat 

 persistent. Inflorescence solitary or in pairs in the leaf-axils, minutely 

 puberulous ; stalk slender, 2-2J lin. long ; receptacle greenish- 

 brown, slender, attached about the middle and forked, the 2 linear 

 limbs spreading at about a right angle, limb keeled beneath, 5-7 lin. 

 long, about IJ lin. broad including the narrow margin (J lin.), 

 passing at each end into a flat narrow-linear bract about 5 lin. long 

 and i lin. broad. Male flowers in 3 rows, 2 marginal rows 1-androus, 

 and a central row 2-androus ; perianth short, tubular with erose 

 margin, produced in the marginal series into a rounded limb incurved 

 over the anther and in the central series into a similar incurved 

 limb at each end. Female flower solitary in the centre of the disc 

 or one at the base of each limb, with a pair of short stigmas (J lin. 

 long) projecting from the mouth of the narrow-tubular perianth, 

 and a short stout style about the same length. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Bipinde, Zenker, 3584 ! Johann-Albrechtshuhe, 

 Busgen, 185. 



70. D. Schlechteri, Engl. Momgr. Morac. Afr. 23, t. iv. jig. E. 

 A herb, 6-12 or more in. high ; stem succulent, from a short thickened 

 rootstock which is densely covered with fibrous roots, 2 -4 lin. thick at 

 the base, glabrous, or sparsely hirtellous in younger parts, branching; 

 shoots leafy. Leaves somewhat fleshy, obovate-cuneate, sometimes 

 elliptic, apex blunt to subacute, base passing gradually into the 

 very short petiole, margin obscurely and remotely dentate above 

 the base, 2-3 in. long, 10-16 lin. wide, glabrous or dorsall) hirtellous 

 on the nerves when young ; lateral nerves 4-6 on each side, somewhat 

 ascending ; petiole barely 3 lin. long or less. Stipules small, linear, 

 deciduous. Inflorescences solitary, axillary ; stalk 5 lin. or less in 

 length ; receptacle orbicular, 4 lin. or less in diam., with a narrowly 

 somewhat irregularly denticulate margin and generally 9 linear 

 bract-arms springing from the back of the disc and about equal to 

 or a little exceeding its diameter, 4-6 lin. long. Male flowers 2-3- 

 androus ; perianth 2-3-lobed ; female numerous ; ovary stalked ; 

 style shortly 2-fid, the style-arms falling as the fruit ripens, so that 

 the style appears simple. Endocarp subglobose-triquetrous, J lin. 

 in diam., pale brown, finely warted on two sides. 



Nile Land. British East Africa : Mombassa, Kirk ! 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Dar-es-Salaam, Kirk ! Portuguese 

 East Africa : Beira, Schlechter (in Herb. Berlin) ! 



71. D. Warneckei, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xlvi. 275. A perennial 

 herb, 1-2 J ft. high; stems stout, succulent, simple or slightly branched, 

 leafy, internodes 2 J— 10 lin. long, very sparsely glandular-hairy 

 as are the petioles and peduncles. Leaves becoming crowded at the 

 top of the stem, fleshy, narrowly obovate-oblong, subacute, narrowing 

 cuneately at the base and passing gradually into the short petiole, 



