Trynmtococcus.] cxxiiic. morace^ (Rendle). 75 



1. T. africanus, Baill. in Adamonia, xi. 300. A shrub from 

 3-10 ft. high ; branchlets reaching about 1 hn. in thickness with 

 internodes generally |-1J in. long, the young portions more or less 

 densely covered with very short sometimes hooked hairs. Leaves 

 elliptic-oblong, generally narrowing to the base, apex passing abruptly 

 into a slender tip J to | in. long, extreme apex obtuse, base obtuse, 

 generally unequal, margin entire or shghtly undulate, 4-6 in. long, 

 1^-2| in. wide, membranous, somewhat shining above, minutely 

 scabrous beneath ; lateral nerves 8-12 on each side, ascending and 

 uniting within the margin, prominent beneath ; petiole 2-3 lin. long. 

 Stipules narrowly triangular, acute, 3-4 lin. long, soon falling. 

 Inflorescences several (2-5) of different ages on a short axillary 

 branch, more or less densely covered with minute hooked hairs ; 

 peduncles arising each in the axil of a short blunt bract, 6-9 lin. 

 long, becoming dilated above into a broadly top-shaped receptacle. 

 Receptacle J in. across, yellow, margin bearing numerous very short 

 obtuse lobes. Male flowers 2-androus, the two perianth-lobes 

 concave, obtuse ; filaments thickened below, tapering above, about 

 h lin. long ; anthers didymous, rounded. Perianth of female flower 

 very thin below, forming above round the style a stouter projecting 

 tube, from the mouth of which spread the style-arms. Receptacle 

 in fruit subglobose or ellipsoid, to 5 lin. long and about 4 lin. in 

 diam., filled with the fruit. — Engl. Monogr. Morac. Afr. 28, t. xi. fig. A. 



Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria : Oban, Talbot 631 ! 2327 ! Camoroons : 

 Cameroon River, Mann, 723 ! 2228 ! Bipinde, Zenker, 875 ! 30U2 ! 350G ! 41 U9 ! 

 between Bipinde and Mamiaca, Zenker, 1032 ! between Ediki and Backundu, 

 Winkler, 1058 ! Bell Town, Buchholz ! Baronibi, Preu.ss, 201 ; Mundane near 

 Johann-Albrechtshiihe, 400 ft., Staudt, Oil ! between Nyoke and Mundane, 

 Schlechter, 12870 ! 



Lower Guinea. Spanish Guinea : Nkolentangan, 1500 ft., Tessnian, .34 ! 



2. T. dorstenioides, Engl, in Engl. Jahrh. li. 434. A small shrub 

 about 5 ft. high, with round branches and pubescent young shoots. 

 Leaves oblanceolate-oblong, apex abruptly long-acuminate, base 

 somewhat obtuse, margin entire, 3|-5 in. long, lJ-2 in. wide, thinly 

 membranous, glabrous, midrib stout ; lateral nerves 6-8 on each 

 side, spreading and curving upwards to unite near the margin ; petiole 

 channelled above, 2J lin. long. Stipules ovate, acute, soon falling. 

 Inflorescences solitary in the leaf-axils, stalk J in. long, finely- 

 hairy, pendulous when young ; receptacle top-shaped, 3\ lin. high, 

 4 lin. in diam., shortly hairy throughout, surrounded by 10 triangular 

 bracts alternately 2 and 1 lin. long. Male flowers 2-androus ; 

 perianth 2-lobed ; perianth of female flower shortly 2-lobed ; style 

 elongated, 2-fid. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : in hilly eountry near Fcndji, ()700 ft., MiUl- 

 braed, 5088. 



Described by Enpjler as allied to T. nfricanus but distinguished fmm other 

 known species of the geniis by the develojuuent of the marginal bracts. 



