Myrianthus.] cxxnic. morace.e (Rendlo). 233 



Mildbraod, Wiss. Kr^ebn. Doutsch. Zeiitr.-Afr. Expod. 1907^, 

 ii. 182. 



Upper Guinea. .Sierra Leone : Fofui, Pooh \ 43 ! Kambui Reserve, l'ool>\ 

 :{32 ! Cold ('oast : Aburi, /?roit;??, 930 ! Anobt^lao, C'/ii'/j;), 125 ! Ashanti;near 

 Dunquali, Cnmynivfi, 7 ! Togo : near Misahohe. Baunuivn, 430 ; Bisniarckburg. 

 Huttner, 44. Dahomey, Lc Testu, 240 ! Northern Ni^erin : Lapai. Yafrs. .34 ! 

 Southern Nigeria: Lagos, Moloney \ Ajilctr, Millm, \\1 ! Voruba, Million, 

 Barti r, 3407 ! Onitsa, Barter, 1677 ! Benin, Bennrois ; IJnwiii, 40 ! Cross 

 River. McLeod ! Botanic Gardens, Old Calabar, Holland ! Cameroona : Yaundi-, 

 Zenker, 185 ! Abo, Buchholz ; Ambas Bay and Cameroon River, Mann, 71(i ! 



Nile Land. British East Africa : Fort Hall, 4000-5000 ft. Battiscombe, 7 ! 

 Ilutchins ! Uganda : Kivuvu, 4000 ft.. Diimmer, 421 ! Mouth of Kagera River. 

 fiag.'^hawe, 159 ! Ix^ndu Plateau, 4000 ft.. Stuhlmann, 270fi. 



Lower Guinea. Gaboon : Dongkila, Klaine, 2700 ! Lower Congo, Smith ! 

 Mayurabe, Districts of the Cataracts and Stanley Pool, Laurent ; Mayurabe, J)r 

 Brky, 49 ! Kisantu, Gillet, 150, Angola : Golungo Alto; forests about Sange 

 and in the Alto Queta and Cungulungulo Mountains, Wehvitsch, 2590 ! and fruit . 

 901! Pungo Andongo ; forests of Ma ta de Pungo, If e/?M7,«?rA, 2591 ! Cazenpo. 

 O'oftsweiler, 578 ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo: Monbuttu ; by the Kussumbo Rivci-, 

 Schweivfurth, 3138! Wabadso Forest, Stuhlmann, 2660; Ituri River region. 

 3000 ft., Stuhlmann, 2029; between Beni and Irumu at 3700 ft., Mildhrned, 

 2765; 2793. Bashilange district; near Mukcnge, Fogge, 1380; Valleys of the 

 Fini and Basoko, Leiurent ; Eala, Laurent, 791 ; River Sankiiru, Demeu.tr ; 

 Munungu, Laurent ; Sankuru and Madibi, Sapin. 



Moiamb. Distr. German East Africa : Mpororo, 0700 ft., Stuhlmnnv. 3152 ; 

 Usambara; Silai, Hoht, 2S02 ! 



2. M. gracilis, E7igl. in Engl Jahrb. xx. 150. A shrub or small 

 tree 5-6 ft. high, branchlets and petioles with very short hairs. 

 Leaves with 7 leaflets which are thin, lanceolate, apex long and verv 

 sharply acuminate, base acute, margin sharply serrate-dentate, verv 

 unequal, the median which are 2 J times as long as the outermost 

 from 6-11 in. long, 2-3 in. wide, narrowing cuneately from the upp<M' 

 third down to the stalk which is 7 lin. long, apex 7-10 lin. long, verv 

 densely net-veined and ver}^ shortly tomentose between the nerves : 

 petiole slender, furrowed, 6-8 in. long. Stipules broadly ovate, with 

 appressed hairs on the outside. Male inflorescence much branched, 

 covered with short greyish hairs, more than 4 in. long, branches IJ- 

 2 in. long, the ultimate branchlets bearing oblong more or less con- 

 fluent flower-clusters 2i-5 lin. long and 2 lin. broad. Flowers 3-4- 

 merous ; sepals obovate, ciliolate ; stamens rather broadlv linear, 

 overtopping the sepals. Female flowers and fruit unknown. -Engl. 

 Monogr. Morac. Afr. 39, t. xvii. B. ; Mildbraed, Wiss. Ergebn. 

 Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. 1907-8, ii. 182. 



Upper Ouinea. Cameroons : forest Ix^tween Baroinbi-ba-Ubu and Kake. 

 Preuss, 478. 

 South Central. Beni : Muera, north-west of Fort Beni, Mildbraed, 2248. 



3. M. elegans, Engl, in Mildbraed, Wiss. Ergehn. Deutsch. Zentr.- 

 Afr. Exped. 1907-8, ii. 182. A shrub 6-10 "ft. high ; branchlets 

 slender, when young bearing like the petioles and inflorescences 



