Trymatococcus.] cxxiiic. MORACEyE (Rendle). 77 



4. T. conrauanus, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 117. A low shrub ; 

 branchlets to IJ lin. in thickness with internodes IJ-IJ in. long, 

 very shortly hairy when young as are the petioles. Leaves with 

 very short petioles, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, apex narrowly 

 and obtusely acuminate, base acute, margin entire or undulate, 

 9-11 in. long, 2|-3.J in. wide, tip 5 lin. long, 1 lin. ])road, membranous, 

 shining above, paler beneath ; lateral nerves about 10-12 on each 

 side, spreading, slightly curving towards the margin, like the nerves 

 of the next order and the widely netted pale reddish veins prominent 

 on the lower surface ; petiole 1J-2J lin. long. Stipules elongated- 

 triangular, falling early. Inflorescences solitary, axillary ; stalk 7-14 

 lin. long ; receptacle top-shaped, 2J lin. broad ; marginal bracts 

 minute ; flowers very small. Male flowers 2-androus ; perianth- 

 lobes broad, enveloping the inflexed stamen ; style-arms finely 

 filiform, J lin. long. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Tinto ; Banyang, Conrau, 130. 

 The length of the stalk of the inflorescence is remarkable. 



6. SLOETIOPSIS, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xxxix. 573. 



Flowers monoecious. Male : sepals 4, of equal length. Stamens 

 4 ; filaments nearly twice as long as the sepals, free, inflexed in bud, 

 swollen at the apex forming a globular insertion for the broadly 

 oval introrse anther ; a central rudimentary pistillodium is present. 

 Female : sepals 4, oblong, the outer shorter than the inner, closely 

 imbricate round the ovary. Ovary ovoid, contracted above into a 

 short columnar style which projects beyond the calyx and bears 

 a pair of long linear-subulate stigmas ; ovule solitary, pendulous from 

 the apex of the cell. Fruit unknown. — A small tree. Leaves 

 shortly petioled, alternate in two rows, simple, acuminate. Stipules 

 caducous. Flowers borne in the axils of orbicular peltate bracts 

 in a somewhat dorsiventral spike-like axillary inflorescence which 

 is either male or androgynous. 



Species one, endemic. 



1. S. usambarensis, Engl. I.e. with fig. A small tree 10-13 ft. 

 high ; twigs slender, slightly flexuous, minutely puberulous as are 

 also the petioles. Leaves stiff, subcoriaceous, narrowly elliptic, 

 apex acuminate, base obtuse, margin remotely and shortly dentate 

 above the middle, 2|-4| in. long, J-1 J in. wide ; lateral nerves about 

 10 on each side, spreading, connected a little within the margin ; 

 petiole about 2 lin. long. Male inflorescences up to 14 lin. long, 

 the androgynous ones 5 lin. Bracts about \\ lin. in diam. Male 

 flowers: sepals broadly elliptic, about J lin. long, minutely puberulous 

 on back and margin. Female flowers : sepals oblong to ovate, 1 an<' 



