238 cxxiiit. MORACE^ (Rendle). [MyriaiUhus . 



10. M. Talbotii, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1915, 354. Leaf -bearing 

 twigs with long hollow cylindrical internodes, J in. thick, bearing in 

 the young state short whitish appressed hairs. Leaves with 5-8 

 stalked leaflets ; leaflets membranous when dry, broadly oblanceo- 

 late or oblong-elliptical, apex sharply acuminate, base acute passing 

 into the stalk, margin more or less sharply toothed, teeth upcurved, 

 9 in. to IJ ft. long, including the stalk which is |-1 in. long, 3-5 in. 

 wide, the lateral pair much smaller, upper face smooth and shining, 

 lower face whitish with the short tomentum which occupies the 

 interstices of the veins, midrib and numerous ascending secondary 

 veins prominent ; petiole with long slender furrows and bearing 

 short appressed hairs, nearly or quite as long as the leaf. Stipules 

 broadly ovate, acuminate, shortly hair}', 7-8 lin. long. Inflorescences 

 in pairs ; male when fully developed 9 in. broad, on a stout stalk 

 7 in. long and 2 lin. thick ; bracts caducous ; branches (4-5) re- 

 peatedly forked, the short branchlets of the last two or three grades 

 densely and continuously covered with the male flowers, and 2-4 lin. 

 long and 1 lin. thick ; perianth-segments 4, free nearly to the base, 

 obovate, concave and stouter above, barely 1 lin. long ; stamens 

 3-4, free, as long as the perianth ; bracteoles shorter than the 

 perianth, broadly spathulate, ciliolate on the back above. Female 

 flowers about 20 in a spherical head J-f in. in diam., on a stalk about 

 l-ll in. long ; bracteoles narrowly oblong to oblanceolate, tapering 

 to the base, densely shortly hairy on the back, a little over 1 lin. 

 long ; perianth narrowly ovoid, 2J-3 lin. long, hirtellous, narrowing 

 to the mouth through which projects the long brown-haired stigma. 

 Head of fruits 1^-2 in. in diam. on a stout stalk lJ-2 in. long ; fruits 

 4-10, ovoid, united below, beaked with the narrow mouth of the 

 persistent perianth. 



Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria : Oban and Eket districts, Talbot ! Came- 

 roons : Bipinde, Zenker, 1 100 ! 



16. MUSANGA, R. Br. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL iii. 379. 



Flowers dioecious. Male flowers : Perianth obovoid-tubular with 

 a narrow truncate or sometimes faintly 2-lobed mouth. Stamen 

 one ; filament straight, cylindrical ; anther short, ellipsoidal, ex- 

 serted, dehiscing longitudinally. Rudimentar}^ ovary absent. 

 Female flow^ers : Perianth narrow-tubular, constricted below^ the 

 middle above the ovary, above which it becomes much thicker and 

 closely invests the style. Ovary ovoid with a long slender terminal 

 style, projecting at the narrow mouth of the perianth where it bears 

 a spreading brush-like stigma. Ovule erect from the- base of the 

 ovar}\ Fruit enveloped in the persistent somewhat fibrous perianth, 

 exocarp thin, endocarp crustaceous, hard, shiny. Seed conforming 

 to the endocarp ; seed-coat thin ; albumen scanty ; cotyledons large, 

 plano-convex, radicle superior. — A small tree. Leaves alternate, 



