232 cxxiiic. MORACE.T. (Rendle). [Myrianthiis. 



becoming wedge-shaped below, or sometimes broader and elliptical 

 to obovate-elliptical, the median one larger, the lateral gradually 

 smaller, apex generally shortly sometimes abruptly acute, base 

 generally obtuse, margin serrate-dentate often unequally, the median 

 segments 8-20 in. long, 3J-8 in. wide, the outside segments about 

 half as long as the median, upper face sparsely pilose, lower witli 

 short hairs on the veins and cobwebby-hairy in the meshes; secondary 

 nerves numerous, regular, ascending, prominent beneath. Leaves 

 of seedling simple, ovate-elliptical. Petiole short, longitudinally 

 furrowed, generally shorter than the leaf. Stipules ovate-acute, 

 forming a pointed cap |— IJ in. long round the young leaves, densely 

 covered with silky hairs, caducous. Male inflorescences axillaiy, 

 ferruginously hairy, hairs very short ; bracts small, ovate-acute, 

 soon falling ; - peduncle varying very much in length from barely 2 

 to 7 in., dividing into usually 4 shorter branches which subdivide 

 repeatedly in an irregularly dichotomous manner ; branchlets of the 

 last few grades J in. or less in length, cylindrical, the surface forming 

 a continuous mass of flowers w^hich are at first yellow but after the 

 dehiscence of the anthers brownish-gold ; floral bracts obovate- 

 cuneate, curving upwards and partially covering the flower ; perianth 

 generally 4-partite, about J lin. long, segments broadly obovate, 

 concave ; stamens about as long as the perianth, free or filaments 

 sometimes more or less united. Female inflorescences in pairs, sub- 

 globose, about \l in. in diam. ; peduncle stout, to about 2 in. long 

 and 5 lin. thick ; bracts at base of stalk ovate-lanceolate, 2-2J lin. 

 long, at base of head shortly ovate, 1 lin. long, soon falling ; flowers 

 densely crowded ; floral bracts linear-spathulate, irregularly arranged 

 among the flowers, a little shorter than the perianth ; perianth 

 obovoid, 4-6-angled, with depressed or truncate upper portion 

 covered with small warts and short conical hairs surrounding the 

 narrow mouth, 2-2J lin. high, fleshy, becoming thicker upw^ards (to 

 1 line). Ovary shortly ovoid, about 1 lin. long, passing above into a 

 cylindrical style of about the same length which bears a broad lanceo- 

 late stigma recurving from the mouth of the perianth, IJ lin. long. 

 Ripe compound fruit yellow, large, depressed globose or excentrically 

 ovoid, to about 4 in. in diam. ; perianth thick and fleshy, minutely 

 warted above, about 7 lin. across and 3J-4 lin. thick in the upper 

 portion ; fruit f in. long and about half as tliick, outer wall very 

 thin ; endocarp |-| lin. thick, enclosing the ovoid seed ; testa thin, 

 brown ; cotyledons of equal length, thick, plano-convex. — R. Br. 

 App. to Capt. Tuckey's Narrative, 453 ; Spreng. Syst. iii. 19 ; 

 Ficalho, PI. Uteis, 273 ; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. B. 181, 293, C. 162, and 

 Monogr. Morac. Afr. 37, t. 16 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 995 ; 

 Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 214 ; De Wild. & Durand, 

 Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 54, ii. 58, and in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me ser. i. 49 ; 

 ]")e Wild. Miss. E. Laurent, 71, 377, and Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen- 

 Congo, ii. 31, iii. 66; Th. & Hel. Durand, 8yll. Flor. Congol. 510; 



