978 PLANTS COLLECTED ON MT. RUWENZORI. 
РІРЕКАСЕ ДХ, 
PIPER САРЕХЗЕ. Linn, j. Suppl. 90. | 
E. 7000 ft. January.—Also collected by Scott Elliot (No. 7909) in the 
Wimi valley at 7000-8000 ft. 
Distrib. East tropical Africa, Cameroons, South Africa. 
PEPEROMIA RUWENZORIENSIS, sp. n. 
Herba, caulibus junioribus et petiolis pilosulis : foliis alternis lanceolatis 
vel ovatis, apice acutis, siccis tenuibus, in dorso laminw sparse pilosis, 
d-nerviis ; amentis modice peduneulatis, in axillis foliorum superiorum 
et terminalibus folia valde excedentibus : bractea orbiculare ; ovario 
rhachi impresso, late obovato, apice obtuso, stigmatifero ; bacca minima, 
late ovata, brunnea, glandulosa. 
Hab. Ruwenzori E. 7000 ft. January. — Climbing: flowers. greenish 
white.—Also collected by Scott Elliot at 7000-8000 ft., on. tree-trunks. 
In fruit, May. No. 7862 in part. 
Caulis 2 mm. crass. e nodis in arborum truncis radicans. Folia cum 
petiolo vix 1 em. long., ad 5 em. long. et 3 em. lat, sepissime minora. 
Amenta ad 5 em. long., 1:5 mm. crass. Bacca 1 пни. long. 
Near P. Stuhlmanni, which was collected about the same altitude on 
Ruwenzori by Stuhlmann, and differs in being а glabrous plant with 
leaves oblong-lanceolate and acute at base and apex. I have to thank 
Dr. Engler for comparing our specimens with the type of P. Stuhl manni 
at Derlin. 
URTICACE®. 
PARIETARIA DEBILIS, Forst. f. Prodr. 387. 
E. 12,000 ft. February. 
Distrib. Widely spread in temperate and tropical regions, and occurring 
in Africa in Abyssinia and the Cameroons. 
FLEURYA PODOCARPA, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. 1. 76. 
E. 5000 ft. March. 
Distrib. East and West tropical Africa. 
EUPHORBIACEÆ. 
TRAGIA CORDIFOLIA, Benth. in Hook. Niger Flora, 901. 
E. 7000 ft. January (fruit). 
Distrib. East and West tropical Africa, and found on Mts. Kenia and 
Kilimanjaro. 
ACALYPHA PSILOSTACHYA, JJochst. ea A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 246. 
E. 7000 ft. January. 
Distrib, East tropical Africa, 
