228 cxxiiic. MORACEiE (Hutchinson). [Treculin. 



2. T. acuminata, Baill. in Adamonia, xi. 292. A shrub 8-10 ft. 

 high ; young branches slender, shortly pubescent. Leaves elhptic 

 or oblong-obovate, subabruptly but obtusely caudate-acuminate, 

 slightly narrowed or rounded to a very obtuse or rounded base, 

 3-7 in. long, li-2| in. broad, acumen \-\ in. long, chartaceous, 

 glabrous and dull on both surfaces ; lateral nerves 8-10 on each 

 side of the midrib, spreading from it at an angle of about 60°, pro- 

 minently looped and ])ranched well within the margin ; tertiary 

 nerves and veins forming a loose conspicuous network below ; petiole 

 1-2 lin. long, wrinkled ; stipules subpersistent, linear-lanceolate, 

 acute, about \ in. long, nearly glabrous, pm'plish. Male heads very 

 shortly pedunculate, axillary, about 2 lin. in diam. ; basal bracts 

 closely appressed to the receptacle, ovate, about | lin. long, slightly 

 pubescent outside ; floral bracts confluent nearly to the apex, the 

 small short free tips ovoid or subclavate, tomentose. Perianth very 

 small ; stamens 2. Female heads globose, about J in. in diam. when 

 in flower, rough with the shortly tomentose tips of the floral bracts 

 and the long exserted style-arms ; basal bracts similar to the male 

 but more hairy. Floral bracts of two kinds, free for half their length, 

 the outer shortly clavate and obtuse, the inner thickly awl-shaped and 

 bristly ; style-arms ^-1 lin. long. Immature fruiting head about 

 2 in. in diam., bristly with the persistent bracts. — N. E. Br. in Kew 

 Bulletin, 1894, 360 ; Engl. Monogr. Morac. Afr. 34. 



Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Mount John on the Rivei Kongui, Mann, 1804! 

 near Libreville, Klainc, 992 ! 2174 ! 



3. T. obovoidea, N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 361. A tree 

 30 ft. high ; young branchlets at first very minutely puberulous. 

 Leaves oblong or oblong-elliptic, obtusely and rather abruptly 

 acuminate, slightly narrowed to or subcuneate at the apex, 3-7 in. 

 long, 1-3^ in. broad, chartaceous, glabrous on both sm'faces ; lateral 

 nerves, veins, petiole and stipules as in T. acuminata. Male heads 

 and bracts as in T. acuminata, but the former ellipsoid or obovoid, 

 \-\ in. long, up to 5 lin . in diam. Basal bracts rather lax and distant, 

 ovate, acute, closely puberulous outside, ciliolate. Perianth tubular, 

 lobed at the apex, lobes acute, shortly ciliate. Stamens mostly 3. 

 — T. Staudtii, Engl, in Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. i. zum ii.-iv. 120, 

 and Monogr. Morac. Afr. 33, t. xiv. fig. A. T. Staudtii, var. 

 angustifolia, Engl. I.e. 34. 



Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria : Old Calabar River, Maim. 2303 ! 

 Thomson, 104 ! Oban, Talbot, 23lGa ! 2321 ! 2335 ! Canicroons : Johann 

 Aibrechtshr.he, Staudt, 633 ! H85 ! 934 ! Lolodorf, Htaudt, 270 ! Bipinde, 

 Zenker, 2526 ! 3776 ! 



I have not seen an exam})le of the genus Acanlhoireculia, Engl, in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xl. 546 {A. Winkleri, Engl. I.e. 548, fig. 2), founded on female material 

 collected by Winkler (1283) and Zenker (2295) in the CanieroonK ; but Eugler's 

 figure depicts a plant which 1 have little doubt is the female of Treculia obovoidea, 

 N. E. Br. The same prickly female receptacle occurs in T. acuminata, Baill., 



