Treculia.] cxxiiic. MORACEiE (Hutchinson). 229 



but in that species, as in the male heads, it is globose and not ellipsoid as in 

 Engler's plant. The male receptacles of T. obovoidea are, however. ellips(»itl or 

 obovoid, and a corresponding shape might be expected in the case of th(' female, 

 a condition which is fulfilled in P]ngler\s Arnvfhotrcndia. 



4. T. Zenker!, Engl, in Engl. & Prantl. Pjkinzenfam. NacJitr. i. zmn 

 ii.-iv. 121. A slender shrub 6-8 ft. high ; young branchlets twiggy, 

 minutely puberulous. Leaves oblong-elliptic or obovate-elliptic, 

 abruptly and obtusely caudate-acuminate, narrowed or rounded to 

 the base, 4-8J- in. long, 1-3 in. broad, chartaceous, glabrous on both 

 surfaces, with prominent straw-coloured venation below ; midrib 

 slightly impressed above, very prominent below ; lateral nerves 

 (3-12, diverging from the midrib at a wide angle, prominently looped 

 and branched well within the margin, sometimes slightly impressed 

 above, prominent below ; venation slender and rather loose, con- 

 spicuous below ; petiole 2-3 lin. long, wrinkled and minutely puberu- 

 lous ; stipules subpersistent, parallel with the shoot, lanceolate, 

 acute, 2-3 lin. long, somewhat rigidly chartaceous, finely puberulous 

 outside. Male flower-heads at the apex of a short axillary bracteate 

 peduncle, globose, in the young state about IJ lin. in diam., at length 

 3 lin. in diam., with a conspicuous covering of peltate tipped puberu- 

 lous bracts. Male perianth-lobes shortly ciliate ; stamens 2 ; fila- 

 ments exserted, glabrous ; anthers J lin. long, broadly ellipsoid. 

 Female heads not known. — Engl. Monogr. Morac. Afr. 34, t. xv. fig. A. 



Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria: Oban district, Talhof, 654! ir>0(> ! 

 Cameroons : Efiilen, Bate/^, 393 I Bipinde, Zenker, 1045 ! 



5. T. mollis, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xl. 546. A tree 50-70 ft. 

 high ; young branchlets pubescent, about 1-J lin. thick ; internodes 

 |— 1 in. long. Leaves elliptic or oblong-elliptic, subcordate and very 

 unequal-sided at the base, caudate-acuminate at the apex, 6-9 in. 

 long, 3-3J in. broad, acumen subobtuse, J in. long, rigidly chartaceous, 

 fijlabrous above, pilose-pubescent below ; midrib very prominent 

 below, about IJ lin. broad at the base, pubescent ; lateral nerves 

 about 13 on each side of the midrib, diverging from it at an angle 

 of about 65°, curved, looped close to the margin, very prominent 

 below ; tertiary nerves lax and slender ; petiole about J in. long, 

 pubescent ; stipules caducous, lanceolate, acute, 4 lin. long, very 

 shortly puberulous. Male inflorescence globose, about |- in. in diam., 

 very shortly pedunculate, with suborbicular bracts at the base ; 

 floral bracts with peltate apices about f lin. in diam. Stamens 2 ; 

 anthers linear, obtuse. Female flowers not known. 



Upper Oainea. Southern Nigeria : Oban, Tnlhol. ♦).S5 ! Cameroons : 

 Bipinde, Zenker, 3333 ! 



6. T. parva, Engl, in PJlanzenfam. Nachir. i. zum ii.-iv. 121. A 

 small shrub up to 3J ft. high ; young branchlets slender., sublerete. 



