Myriaiithus.'] cxxiiK. morack.i: (Rendlc). 237 



srrnflu,s, uiidril) and veins prominent beneath, lateral veins ahout 

 10 oji «»acli side, strongly ascending ; petiole about half as long as 

 the leaf. Stipules protecting the bud densely silky-haiiy, | in. long. 

 Male inflorescences in pairs, about 2 J in. broad; peduncle 2-2^ in. 

 long, barely 1 lin. thick, dividing into 3 or 4 repeatedly forking slender 

 branches ; ultimate branchlets, of the 5th or 6th grade, densely 

 covered with flowers forming oblong or roundish clusters. 2-3 lin. 

 long, which are sometimes confluent at the base Bracteoles 

 narrower than the perianth-segments, concave and ciliolate above ; 

 perianth divided to the base ; segments 4, with a broad blunt thick- 

 ened concave apex, ciliolate on the back, and tapering below to the 

 base ; stamens 3-4. filaments united. Female plant unknown. 



Upper Giiinea. SieiriiJjL'onc, Un win db S my the, 2 \ Liberia: Mount Barclay, 

 BmUiny ! 



.Allied to tlie last two s})ocies but distinguished by the larger male iiiHorrcicoite 

 with slender branches and small more or less distinct clusters of Howcrs on the 

 ultimate branchlets. 



9. M. Holstii, Enyl. Monogr. Moruc. Afrk. 41, t. xvii. E. A tree 

 30 ft. or more high, the young portions densely covered with tine 

 brown hairs ; internodes of branches 7-10 lin. long, 3-5 lin. thick. 

 Leaves leather}', more or less deeply 3-5-lobed, lobes elliptical- 

 oblong, or completely divided into 5 or 7 oblong-elliptical or 

 elliptical-oblanceolate to obovate leaflets, apex of lobes shortly 

 acuminate, base truncate or subcordate, margin serrate-dentate, 

 teeth small, upper face smooth, densely tomentose beneath between 

 the closely reticulate veins, segments or leaflets 8-20 in. long and 

 3-7 in. broad, the median lobe and leaflet longer and slightly broadei- 

 than the lateral, secondary nerves springing from the main nerve of 

 the leaf -lobe at an angle of 45° and 5-7 lin. apart ; petiole about 

 half to three-quarters the length of the leaf, slightly furrowed. Male 

 inflorescence with a peduncle lJ-4 in. long, about 4 in. broad ; 

 branches slender, those of the last two grades covered with a con- 

 tinuous mass of flowers, ultimate branchk^ts with floweis 2J-3i lin. 

 long and 2 J lin. thick ; flowers generally 4-merous ; sepals about 

 2 lin. long, broadly obovate. about equal in length to the narrower 

 bracteoles ; stameiLs with narrowly linear filaments, overtopping 

 the perianth. Female inflorescences with a stalk to i\ in. long, and 

 a head 7 lin. in diam., many-flowered. Head of fruit lJ-2 in. in 

 diam., stalk 2 in. long ; fruits numerous, ovoid, slightly compressed, 

 enclosed in the fleshy perianth, about 5 lin. long and 4 lin. broad.— 

 Var. (juwquesectus, Engl, in F^ngl. Jahrb. xxx. 295. ^f. arlMtreus. 

 S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xl. 200 (not of Beauv.). 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Usambara : J.utendi Foiv.st, iKMKi ft.. 

 Hoist, 3308 ! near Muafa, 3500 ft., Burhwald, 2(5 ! Xdercma, 3(HK» to 3300 ft., 

 Volkeiis, 119 ! Kondeland, Goetze, 1312 ! Nyasaland : Milanji, Broir?) ! Shin- 

 Highlands, Buchanan, 69 ! Gazaland : Chirinda Forest, 3700-4(,K>0 ft., Svi/n- 

 nerton, 111 ! Mount Penc Forest, U500-7000 ft., Swynnerton, 1052 ! 



