Dorstenia.] cxxiiic. morace^ (Rendle). 65 



below the margin, 11-15, spreading in a whorl, subequal, linear, 

 blunt, thickening and sparsely puberulous towards the apex, 7-11 

 lin. long, about J lin. wide. Male flowers 2-androus with a bluntly 

 2-lobed perianth ; female numerous ; style deeply 2-lobed. — Th. & 

 Hel. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 503. 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Katanga ; Lukafu, Verdick, 294 ! 

 Plant known only from three cut off shoots about 4 in. lon^r. 



77. D. Hildebrandtii, Eiigl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 146. Stem erect. 

 6-8 in. long, about 2 J lin. thick, succulent, slightly branched, very 

 minutely puberulous below the leaves, otherwise glabrous. Leaves 

 sessile, fleshy, lanceolate, acute, narrowing cuneately to the base, 

 anterior margin shortly sinuate-dentate, 1^ in. long, 5 lin. wide; 

 lateral nerves not prominent. Stipules subulate, 1 lin. long. Peduncle 

 2J-5 lin. long, minutely and densely puberulous ; receptacle dark 

 purple, suborbicular, 2J lin. in diam. ; bracts 5-7, linear-tapering, 

 very unequal, 2-2J lin. or less, with intervening unequal triangular 

 teeth, minutely puberulous. Female flowers numerous ; style 2-fid. 

 Endocarp ovate, about J lin. long, verruculose except on the ventral 

 aspect.— Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 161 and Monogr. Morac. Afr. 23, t. 

 vi. B. 



Nile Land. British East Africa : Taita ; Buityuma, Ilildebrandt, 2050. 



78. D. Homblei, De Wild, in Fedde, Repert. xiii. 195. Perennial 

 by means of a fleshy rounded or depressed concave tuber 2-2J in. 

 wide. Stem solitary, erect, apparently succulent, cylindrical, 

 unbranched, up to 1 ft. high, leafy in the upper third and pubescent, 

 bearing stipulate leaf-scales at the lower nodes. Leaves aggregated 

 at the apex, very shortly stalked, oblanceolate-elliptic, apex blunt, 

 base cuneate, margin irregularly denticulate, up to 2h in. long by 

 11 lin. wide, softly hirtellous especially on the nerves ; lateral 

 nerves about 10 on each side, ascending. Stipules linear, blunt, up 

 to 2J lin. long. Petiole 1 lin. long or less. Inflorescence solitary, 

 axillary ; stalk 7-9 lin, long, hirtellous ; receptacle as in D. 

 henguellensis, but larger, 8-9 lin. in diam., with 14-16 slender linear 

 bract-arms, J-1 in. long. Flowers and fruit as in D. henguellensis. 

 Endocarp about J lin. in diam. 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Katanga ; Katentauia, HomhU', 730 ! 



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79. D. mirabilis, R. E. Fries in Arkiv. Bot. xiii. no. i. 13, /. 2, 

 3. Tuber large, 3-4 J in. in diam., J-IJ in. high, depressed- 

 globose, concave above, surface verrucose, with flbrous roots springing 

 from the warts. Stems erect, solitary or 2 or 3. from the centre of 

 the tuber, succulent, 6-8 in. high, densely clothctl with very short 

 spreading whitish hairs, leafy in the upper third with internodes 

 j-lj in. long, below bearing ovate- or narrowlj'-triangular acute 



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