Fleurya.| CXXIIIp. URTICACEH (Rendle). 247 
segments, often with a few short stiffish hairs on the back below the 
apex, or one or more longer hairs, which are sometimes gland-tipped ; 
open flower about 1} lin. across. Female perianth deeply divided 
into 4 segments, 2 larger broadly ovate and nearly equal in length to 
the ovary with an alternating inconspicuous pair; stigma short, 
simple. Achene deflexed, brown, ovate to pyriform, central area 
depressed, with a few confluent tubercles, 4 to barely 1 lin. long ; 
Stalk slightly dilated above the articulation.—Wedd. Monogr. Urtic. 
112, and in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 71 (vars. linneana and glandulosa) ; 
Oliv. in Trans. Linn, Soc. xxix. 150; Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. 
x. 162; Engl. Glied. Veg. Usambara, 55, and Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 163; 
Durand & Schinz, Etudes FI. Congo, 250; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. 
Boiss. iv. App. ii. 145; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 988; De 
Wild. Etudes Fl. Katanga, 29, and Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, 
h. 37, t. 29; Thonner, Blutenpfl. Afr. t. 32; Almagia in Ann. 
Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 118; R. E. Fries, Rhod.-Kongo Exped. i. 18. 
F. cordata, Gaud. in Freyc. Voy. Bot. 497, and in Voy. Bonite, t. 83 . 
Wedd. Monogr. Urtic. 110, t. 1 A, figs. 4-6. F. glandulosa, Wedd. in 
Ann. Sci. Nat. 3me sér. xviii. 205. F. spp. nos. 2 & 3, Benth. in Hook. 
Niger FI. 517. Urtica estuans, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. ii. 1397. U. schim- 
periana, Hochst. ex Steud. in Flora, 1850, 259; A. Rich. Tent. FI. 
Abyss. ii. 261. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Bafodeya, Scott Elliot, 5507! Liberia : 
Sinoe Basin, Whyte! Gold Coast: Aburi, Brown, 413! Ashanti: Tedlic! 
Togo: near Lome, Warnecke, 206! Northern Nigeria: Lokoja, Dalziel, 150 ! 
Horin ; Aguji, Thornton! Mount Patteh, Vogel, 193! Confluence, Barter ! 
Southern Nigeria : Lagos; Ogun River, Millen, 130! Aguku, Thomas, 913! 
Awka, Thomas, 668! Oban, Talbot, 632! Old Calabar, Robb! Holland, 40! 
Cameroons : Batanga, Bates, 34! Bipinde, Zenker, 872! Yaunde, Zenker & 
Staudt, 510! Staudt, 914! : 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Ailet, Schweinfurth & Riva, 475! Lawa-Valley, 
4000 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1661; Assaorta; Ambatocam, 2000 ft., Pappi, 
4019, 4055; Ocule Cusai ; Moga at 4000 ft., Pappi, 4159 ; Damas, Pappi, 4117; 
Monte Idet, Terracciano & Pappi, 31; Adeita-Cualo, at 650 ft., Pappi, 3011; 
Dalac, Ehrenberg, 43! Abyssinia: Modat, Schimper, 1739! and without 
recise locality, Schimper, 1726! Bongo: Gir, Schweinfurth, 2499 ! Uganda : 
ipayo, 4000 ft., Diemmer, 968! Lake Albert Edward : Kasindi, Fries, 1894; 
Madi Woods, Speke & Grant! British East Africa: Kui, Kaessner,670! Kib- 
wezi, Scheffler, 123! .Mombasa, Hildebrandt, 2040! j 
Lower Guinea. St. Thomas Island, Don; Moller & Quintas. Gaboon : 
Tedlie! Angola: Golungo Alto; bank of River Coango, Welwitsch, — 
Ambriz ; Maladi, Monteiro! wernt A a. 8. eg snc tagge lings 1 
South Central. Belgian Congo: uata, Bittner; Bangala, i ! 
Katanga ; Mavaos, Casas 2632! Lukafu, Verdick, 379; Monbuttu ; 
unza, Schweinfurth, 3420! : s 
Mozamb. Ske Nyasaland: Nyika Plateau, McClounie, 93! Zomba 
Rock, Whyte ! Songue and Karonga, 1700-2000 ft., Whyte! Kondowe to 
Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte! Lower Milanji, Scott! and without precise 
locality, Buchanan, 345! Portuguese East Africa: Zambesi; below Shigogo, 
Kirk! Boruma, Menyharth, 574! 
2. F. urticoides, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiil. 122. Dicecious ; stem 
erect from an ascending base, 3-5} ft. high, somewhat angular and 
