230 cxxiiif. MORACEiE (Hutchinson). [Treculm. 



minutely tomentose, at length glabrous. Leaves oblong or 

 slightly oblong-oblanceolate, caudate-acuminate, acumen I in. long, 

 obtuse, subcuneate and unequal-sided at the base, 2-3^ in. long, 

 J-li in. broad, thinly chartaceous, glabrous and rather dull on both 

 surfaces ; lateral nerves about 7 on each side of the midrib, diverging 

 from it at an angle of about 65°, prominent below and conspicuously 

 looped and branched well withm the margin ; veins fairly loose 

 but distinct below ; petiole curved, about 2 lin. long, shortly puberu- 

 lous ; stipules subpersistent, linear-lanceolate, acute, 2-| lin. long, 

 glabrous. Male inflorescence not seen, according to Engler sub- 

 globose, small, with ovate ciliolate bracts at the base ; peduncle 

 at first about as long as the petiole, at length 2-3 times as long, 

 bearing numerous subovate shortly silky-pilose bracts. Floral 

 bracts with an orbicular peltate apex. ]\Iale flowers with 1 stamen, 

 the perianth overtopping the bracts ; stamen elongate-clubshaped, 

 IJ times as long as the perianth ; anthers ovoid. — Engl. Monogr. 

 Morac. Afr. 34, t. xv. fig. B. 



Upper Guinea. CameroonR : Bipinde, Zenker, 988 ! 4907 ! 



15. MYRIANTHUS, P. Beauv. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 379. 



Flowers dicpcious. Male flowers small, yellow. Perianth deeply 

 divided into 3 or 4 obovate concave segments. Stamens generally 

 equal in number and opposite to the perianth-segments, free or some 

 or all more or less united by their filaments ; filaments narrow ; 

 anthers generally slightly exserted, ellipsoidal. Rudimentary ovar}' 

 absent. Female flowers : Perianth obovoid or ovoid, forming round 

 the ovary a sac with a narrow mouth. Ovary ovoid, passing above 

 into a short cylindrical style which bears a single broad stigma just 

 above the mouth of the perianth ; stigma densely covered with 

 brown hairs on the upper face ; ovule erect from the base. Fruits 

 ovoid, enveloped in the persistent fleshy perianth, crowded in a 

 spherical or ovoid head on the slightly or nmch swollen receptacle, 

 connate below the middle or at the base ; endocarp hard, enclosing 

 the seed. Seed-coat thin ; albumen absent ; cotyledons thick, 

 plano-convex, equal. — Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, simple, 

 3-5-lobed or palmately compound with 5 or more leaflets ; leaves 

 or leaflets elliptical to oblanceolate, with a pointed apex and generally 

 sharply-toothed margin ; under face generally covered with a dense 

 short whitish t omentum between the conspicuously reticulated vein- 

 lets ; petioles generally long, but usually shorter than the blades. 

 Stipules united to form a conical covering round the apical bud, 

 densely hair}-. Inflorescences in pairs in the leaf-axils ; bracts on 

 the axis and branches small and soon falling. Male : Peduncle 

 stout, generally shorter than the petiole, dividing into 3 or more 

 spreading branches which fork repeatedly ; flowers borne on the short 



