Dorstenia.] cxxiiic. morace.e (Rendle). 71 



2-partite, the median 3-fid, div^isions linear-lanceolate, many- 

 toothed, teeth becoming shorter towards the apex ; petiole stout, 

 6 in. or more in length. Peduncles about as long as or longer than 

 the petiole, but only half as thick ; receptacle attached just above 

 the base, green, vertical, oblong or narrowly oblong, sometimes 

 linear, with a narrow margin passing into linear-taporing bracts, 

 the terminal generally longer and broader, J-IJ ^^- ^^"?> 1 ^^^- ^^ 

 less in width, the lateral, 3-6 on each side, J-J in. long and J lin. 

 or less in width. Male flowers 2-androus, with an indistinctly 2-lobed 

 perianth ; female distributed throughout the disc ; ovary stalked, 

 ovoid ; style simple. Endocarp globose, tuberculate, about f lin. 

 in diam. — Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 276 ; Engl. Monogr. Morac. 

 Afr. 25 and Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 190 ; R. E. Fries in Wiss. 

 Ergebn. Schwed. Rhodes. -Kongo-Exped. 1911-12, i. 14. Kosaria 

 harnimiana, Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 189, t. ii. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia : Jenneja, near Magdala, Stevdner, 1359. Gallabat ; 

 on the right bank of the Chor Koki, near Matamma, Schweinfurth, 560 ! 561 ! 

 563 ! Sennar : Jebel Fazoke, on the Blue Nile, Hartmann ; Famaka in Fazokl, 

 Cienkowskij. 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Kasindi, Lake Albert Edward, Fries, 1873. 



Var. ophioglossoides, Engl. Monogr. Morac. Air. 25. A smaller plant 

 with cordate-ovate or peltate leaves about 1 in. long and wide ; petioles l-\\ in 

 long. Peduncles 2-2^ in. long ; bracts linear-tapering, 3^-4 lin. long, acute. — 

 D. ophioglossoides, Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 276. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia : Plain of Dembea, 6000ft., Schimper, 1208 ! Steudner, 

 1358 ; Debra-Eski, 9000-11,000 ft., Schimper, 402 ! Gallabat : by the Oendua 

 River, Stevdner, 1357 ! 



Var. tropcBolifolia, Rendle. Resembles var. ophioglossoides. Tuber small, 

 roundish, ^-| in. in diam. Leaf solitary, suborbicular, peltate, 1-^ in. in 

 greatest diameter ; petiole §-l| in. long. Peduncle 2-4^ in. long ; bracts 

 3^-7^ lin. long, generally acute. — D. tropceolifolia, Bureau in DC. Prodr. 

 xvii. 276 ; Engl. Monogr. Morac. Afr. 26. D. peltata, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xlvi. 277. Kosaria tropceolifolia, Schweinf. in Verhandl. Zool.-Bot. Gesell. 

 Wien, 1868, 687. 



Nile Land. Gallabat : left bank of the River Gendua, Schtceinfurth, 564 ! 

 British East Africa : Unyoro, 3900 ft., Broum, 407 ! 



North Central. Adamawa : Ssagadje ; Korowal Plateau, 2400 ft., Leder- 

 inann, 3854. 



Var. angustior, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 292. A small plant 4-6 in. high, 

 with cordate leaves f-1 in. long and wide ; petiole about 1 in. long. Peduncle 

 4-6 in. long ; receptacle narrow, l^ in. or less in length, about 2 lin. broad ; 

 lateral bracts l~l\ in. long, terminal I J-2 in. 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Unyika ; near Toola, 4000 ft., (7of/ce, 1415! 



Var. Telekii, Engl. Monogr. Morac. Afr. 25. A small plant with reniform- 

 suborbicular leaves, ^ in. long and wide, with crenat<'-re})and margin : petiole 

 about \\ in. long. Peduncle 1^ in. long ; receptacle oblong ; bracts linear, 

 obtuse, 2|-3 lin. long, the terminal longer than the lateral.— />. Tekkii, S( hweinf. 

 in Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 190 (name onlv) and in Hohnel. Zum 

 Rudolph-See u. Stephanie-See, Sonderabdr. 856 ; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 161. 



Nile Land. British East Africa : Kikuyu, 5300-6600 ft., Hohnel 28. 



I have not seen the specimen of D. peltata, Engl. {lyedcrtminn^ 3854). but 

 cannot by the description distinguish it from tropcroli folia, to which Engler 

 states it is " extraordinarily near." 



