Dorstenia.] cxxiiic. morace.« (Rendle) 73 



long, sparsely puberulous as is the roundish receptacle, which is 

 5-7 lin. in diam., with 8-10 linear unequal bract-arms 2 J lin. or 

 less in length. Male flowers 2-3-andr("Us ; female generally dis- 

 tributed ; style simple. — Almagia in Ann. R. Istit. Bot. Roma, 

 viii. 115. D. obovata, Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 103 (name only) ; A. 

 Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 273 ; Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 275. 

 Kosaria obovata, Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 190 (name only). 



Nile Land. Abyssinia: on the Doban, 5000-6000 ft., Beccari, 133; near 

 Jelajerannc, Schimper, 1675 ! near Mawt-rr, at about 3700 ft., Schimper, 171. 

 Eritrea : Habab, 4500-6300 ft., Hildebrandt, 386 ; Roret Mountain, Terracciano 

 db Pappi, 2362 ; Amba Mountains, Terracciano d: Pappi, 2361 ; Keren, 

 Steudner, 1360. 



Also in Arabia. 



94. D. crispa, Engl. Monoyr. Morac. Afr. 27, t. ix. A. Stem 

 succulent, up to 4J in. high, erect from a swollen base which may 

 reach H in. in diam., cylindrical tapering upwards to J in. in diam., 

 unbranched or ending in short thick spreading branches with leafy 

 tips, surface of stem pale brown, marked with the roundish tubercle- 

 like leaf-scars. Leaves narrowly oblong to linear-lanceolate, subobtuse 

 to acute ; base acute or obtuse, margin crisped and toothed, 1J-2J 

 in. long, J-J in. wide, dark green, paler beneath, with very short 

 scattered hairs when young, ultimately glabrous ; nerves 8-11 on 

 each side, spreading; petiole J-| in. long. Stipules small, subulate 

 from a tubercle-base, 1-2 lin. long, ciliolate, persisting for a time on 

 either side of the leaf-scar. Inflorescences solitary in the leaf-axils, 

 sometimes less than 1 in. long, but sometimes ultimately lengthening 

 to 4 in. Receptacle orbicular-stellate, somewhat concave when 

 young, puberulous, disc ultimately flattened, ^J in. broad, the 

 thickened margin passing into 6-10 subulate spreading unequal 

 bract-arms, ^—1 in. long, with short intervening teeth. Male flowers 

 2-androus, with broadly 2-lobed papillose perianth ; female numerous, 

 generally dispersed ; style simple. Endocarp pale l)rown, or))i{ular- 

 tetrahedral, dorsally crested, sides minutely tuberculate. \-'l lin. 

 in diam.~ Z). Phillipsia^, Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 7676. 



Nile Land. Somaliland : Foot of Rufigar Pass, in the Waggat Mountains, 

 and Soksoda, Lort Phillips \ Galla Highlands: Gerinia ; by tlie river Daua, 

 Riva, 441 ! 



Var. lancifolia, RendU^ in Journ. Bot. 1915,302. Leaves lineardanceohite. 

 acute at the base and apex, margin obscurely denticulate, 2-2A in. long, 4-6 lin. 

 wide. 



Nile Land. British East Africa : Ngonieni, Scoil Elliot, (i279 ! 



I rn perfectly known species. 



95. D. liebuschiana, Enyl. in Enyl. Ja/irb. xlvi. 275. A small 

 juicy herb 6 in. high, with stem and petioles shortly hairy ; lower 

 internodes 7 lin. long, upper 5-2J lin. Leaves oblong-lanceolate 



