62 cxxiiic. MORACE^ (Rendle). [Dorstenia, 



upper portion more or less grossly and irregularly dentate, 2-6 in. 

 loniT, 1J-2J in. wide, glabrescent ; lateral ner\es 4-7 on each side, 

 irregular, ascending, and passing into the teeth ; petiole 2J-7 lin. 

 long. Stipules inconspicuous. Inflorescences solitary, axillary ; 

 stalk 5-9 lin. long ; receptacle broadly elliptic, 5-7 by 4-5J lin., 

 with a whorl of 8-12, short blunt linear-triangular bract-arms about 

 equal to half the breadth of the disc, w^ith sometimes intermediate 

 shorter arms or a minute tooth. Male flowers 3-androus ; perianth 

 3-lobed ; female numerous and scattered ; ovary shortly stalked ; 

 style 2-fid at the apex. Endocarp globose-triquetrous, verruculose. — 

 D. latibracteata, Engl. I.e. 



Mozamb. Distr. Pemba Island, 400 ft., iTassner, 388 ! German East Africa : 

 Amani, at 1500-25^0 ft., Engler, 3390 ; Warnecke, 509 ! 



72. D. katangensis, De Wild, in Fedde, Repert. xi. 519, a7id in 

 Etudes Fl. Katanga, ii. 30, t. ix, fig. 3. Stem herbaceous, solitary, 

 8 in. high, from a depressed-globose tuber | in. in diam. and J in. 

 high, terete, reddish, pubescent especially in the younger part, lower 

 portion bearing reduced leaf-like scales at the nodes, upper 4 J in., 

 leafy. Leaves subsessile, erect, narrowly linear-lanceolate, apeX" 

 bluntly mucronate, margin denticulate, 13-14 lin. long, 1 lin. wide, 

 hirtellous on both surfaces. Stipules lanceolate, 1 lin. long. In- 

 florescence solitary in the upper leaf-axils ; stalk stout, about 1 lin. 

 long ; disc orbicular, about 3 lin. in diam. ; bract-arms springing 

 from beneath a narrow obscurely crenate margin, spreading, 6-10, 

 unequal, linear, tapering slightly and thickening upwards, hirtellous, 

 2-5 lin. long, about J lin. wide. Male flowers 2-androus, the two 

 broad perianth-lobes with denticulate margin ; female scattered ; 

 style shortly 2-fid. Endocarp triquetrous-globose, verruculose. 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Upper Katanga ; Ruwe, Hock ! 

 Described from a single specimen. 



73. D. Debeerstii, De Wild. & Durand in Bull. Soc. Bot. 

 Belg. xxxix. 75. Stems herbaceous, solitary or in pairs, springing 

 from the centre of a depressed disc-shaped tuber, which is concave 

 above, 2-2| in. in diam., and 7-10 lin. high, erect or somewhat spread- 

 ing, 6-14 in. high, densely shortly tomentose, leafy at the apex or 

 in the upper third, below bearing at the nodes stipulate scale-leaves. 

 Leaves subsessile, erecto-patent, obovate-lanceolate, acute or sub- 

 obtuse, narrowing gradually to the base, margin except at the base 

 closely and minutely denticulate, lj-2 in. longj 5-7 lin. broad, 

 upper surface scabrous and densely strigillose, more softly and 

 laxly hirsute beneath ; median nerve and 6-8 lateral nerves on 

 each side somewhat prominent and paler on the lower face. Stipules 

 linear-oblong, acute, lJ-2 lin. long, persistent. Inflorescences 

 appearing before the leaves, solitary in the axils of the upper scales 



