Mesogyne.] cxxiiic. morace.^ (Hutchinson). 223 



Leaves elliptic, apex acuminate (5 lin. long), base obtuse, 8-0 in. 

 long, 3J-4 in. wide, stiff, somewhat shining on both surfaces : lateral 

 nerves 10-12 on each side, spreading and curving to unite near the 

 margin, very prominent beneath as is the reticulate venation ; petiole 

 short, channelled above, 5 lin. long, densely covered with very short 

 hairs. Male inflorescences 4 in a leaf-axil with one female ; peduncle 

 of male 2i-3J lin. long, diameter of head 2 lin. ; bracts ovate. Female 

 inflorescence sessile, 2i lin. long, ovoid, covered from the base to the 

 apex with ovate bracts ; ovary subglobose ; style rather long ; 

 stigmas filiform, exserted. Fruit globose. — Engl. Monogr. Morac. 

 Afr. 30. 



Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas : near Angolaics, ^m/>//(Io), Ki-i. 



13. ANTIARIS, Lesch. ; Benth. k Hook. f. Gen. PL iii. 371. 



Flowers in the extra-African species monoecious, in the African 

 species dioecious or subdioecious, the male densely capitate, the 

 female solitary. Male flower : Perianth 3-4-partite ; segments 

 spathulate, imbricate. Stamens 4 or 3, with free short filaments ; 

 anthers oblong. Rudimentary ovary 0. Female flower : Perianth 0. 

 Ovary included in and adnate to the receptacle ; style 2-partite, 

 branches subulate, exserted, recurved, stigmatose ; ovule pendulous 

 from the apex. Fruit fleshy ; pericarp merged with the receptacle. 

 Seed pendulous, with a crustaceous or indurated testa ; albumen ; 

 embryo subglobose, with equal fleshy cotyledons ; radicle small, 

 superior. — -Latex-producing trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, 

 petiolate, penninerved, entire or serrate. Stipules lateral or connate 

 within the petiole, small, caducous. Receptacles shortly peduncu- 

 late in the leaf -axils or in the axils of fallen leaves, male often geminate 

 or few together, female solitary. 



Spt^cies about 0; five oi' «ix in the Indian and Malayan region, the following 

 three confined to Tropical Africa. 



Veins of the leaves very prominently reticulate on 



the lower surface ... ... ... ... ... \. A. njiica nn. 



Veins of the leaves rather faint ; leaves 2^-3.1 in. 



broad ... ... ... ... ... ... 2. A. umndxut nsi.s. 



Veins of the leaves very faint and lax on the lower 



surface; leaves 1-2} in. broad... ... ... '.i. A. U f /Mv7>r/n'/. 



1. A. africana, Etu/l. in Evf/l. Jahrh. xxxiii. 119. A very large 

 pyramidal tree ; young branches leafy, flexuous, longitudinall} 

 grooved and wrinkled, shortly and densely rusty-tomento.se. Leaves 

 of two kinds ; those on the saplings and perhaps also on the young 

 barren shoots elliptic or obovate-eUiptic. unequal-sided and subcordate 

 at the base, acutely acuminate at the apex, 4-9 in. long, H-3.J in. 

 broad, submembranous, denticulate, with several setose hairs on 



