Obetia.] CXXIIIp. URTICACE® (Rendle). 245 
Nile Land. Uganda: Toro; near Durro forest, 4000 ft., Bagshawe, 1080! 
Busoga ; banks of Nile, 3900 ft., Dawe, 88! British East Africa: near Amala, 
5500 ft., Hvans, 772 ! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Kwiji Islands in Lake Kivu, Mildbraed ; 
West of Lake Albert Edward, 4000 ft., Mildbraed, 1950. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Mucunu Steppe, near Lake Victoria, 
Conrads,279! Muansa, Stuhlmann ; Kagehi, Fischer. 
2. O. carruthersiana, Rendle. An arborescent shrub up to 13 ft. 
high or a small tree 10 to 20 ft. in height with a stem as thick as a 
man’s leg and several branches sharply ascending from the base, or 
often with a short trunk 5 in. in diam.; branchlets ascending and 
bearing towards the tips bright red leafy twigs 5 to 10 lin. thick ; 
internodes up to 2 in. long below, 23-5 lin. long towards the apex, 
rather closely beset with long 1-celled very sharp stinging hairs with 
a bulb-like warted base. Leaves cordate or somewhat reniform, 
sometimes partially lobed, margin coarsely serrate, teeth up to 5 lin. 
broad, lateral nerves 45 on each side curving upwards, the basal 
pair emitting 4-5 secondary nerves, up to 9 in. long and 6 in. wide, 
bearing especially on the nerves and veins long scattered hairs, and 
thinner shorter hairs, verrucose on’ upper face, densely reticulate 
between the veins beneath ; petiole generally shorter than the leaf ; 
stipules rather large, broadly lanceolate, pale brown, soon falling, 
5 lin. long and 13 lin. wide. Inflorescences numerous, generally on 
leafless branches, sometimes in the leaf-axils, equal in length to the 
petiole, several times forked and passing into 1-sided cymes, up to 
3 in. long and 23 in. broad, bearing long scattered hairs and inter- 
vening shorter hairs; bracts at the base of the branchlets brown, 
soon falling. Male flowers shortly stalked, about 1 lin. in diam. in 
bud; perianth deeply 5-partite ; segments elliptic, minutely hispidu- 
lous with a few long hairs on the prominent median nerve on the 
back ; filaments a little longer than the perianth ; rudiment of pistil 
very short, ending in a dense mass of short hairs. Female flowers : 
lateral segments of perianth broadly elliptic-ovate, about } lin. long, 
equal to the ovary, posterior slightly smaller, the anterior much 
smaller ; achene ovoid-orbicular, brown, 3 lin. long, minutely scrobi- 
culate; persistent membranous perianth 1 lin. long.—0. australis, 
Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. li. 424, fig. 2. Urticastrum carruthersianum, 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 987. Laportea carruthersiana, 
K. Schum. in Just, Jahresber. xxviii. i. 463. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; Delamboa, Welwitsch, 6267! 
Mount Kileba, Chetvielters 1707! “Huila, Antunes, 241. Damaraland : Gaub, 
Dinter & Engler ; near Otavi, Dinter, 629; Otyimbingue, Fischer ; near Oka- 
handja, Dinter. 
3. FLEURYA, Gaud. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 382. 
Flowers moncecious or dicecious in cymose clusters arranged in 
panicles or interrupted racemes or spikes. Male flowers: Perianth 
