248 CXXIIIp. URTICACE (Rendle). [Fleurya. 
with internodes 3 in. to 2 in. long, densely hispidulous, with longer, 
often deflexed stinging hairs intermixed. Leaves shortly stalked, 
elliptic to elliptic-ovate, acute, base subcordate, margin closely 
serrate-dentate, the tooth ending in a stinging hair, 24-34 in. long, 
11-2 in. wide, bearing hairs similar to those of stem and petiole 
sparsely on the upper face, more densely beneath especially on the 
nerves, 3-nerved below, with 3-4 ascending lateral nerves on each 
side above ; petiole 3-1 in. long ; stipules narrowly lanceolate, about 
3-5 lin. long. Male flowers in axillary panicles which are longer 
than the petioles ; flowers clustered in glomerules on the short lateral 
branches of the first or second degree ; pedicels about $ in. long. 
Perianth 4-partite, segments densely hispidulous on the back, a little 
over $ lin. long. 
Pd baal Guinea. Cameroons: Buea, 3000-8000 ft., Preuss, 916! Deistel, 
Var. glabrata, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1917, ined. A glabrate form, bearing 
only the longer deflexed stinging hairs, but lacking the characteristic hispid 
indumentum of the species except on the inflorescence and male flowers. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Marangu, at 8700 ft., 
Volkens, 980 ! 
3. F. lanceolata, Engl. Glied. Veg. Usambara, 37, and Pf. Ost- 
Afr. C. 163. A dicecious herb; stem tall, erect, 24 ft. high, 2 lin. 
thick at the base, sparsely clothed with short stinging hairs. 
Leaves membranous, ovate-lanceolate, apex acuminate, base sub- 
acute to obtuse, margin coarsely serrate-dentate, 6-7} in. long, 
2-3 in. wide, bearing a few appressed stinging hairs, especially on the 
nerves beneath ; petiole much shorter than the leaf, 13-3 in. long, 
hairy like the stem. Inflorescences: male in short cymes, flower- 
buds depressed-globose ; female on the short branches of lax axillary 
panicles, which are shorter or longer than the petiole. Female 
perianth 4-partite, the lateral segments ovate, much larger than the 
antero-posterior, and enveloping the young fruit ; stigma lanceolate, 
as long as the ovary. Achene very small, obliquely broadly ovoid, 
acute, with a broad central pit on each side, } lin. long. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; Masheua, Holst, 8833! 
North East Uluguru ; near Mbore, at 3000 ft., Stuhlmann, 9012 ; Central Ulu- 
guru, 7000 ft., Stuhlmann, 9223. 
4. F. interrupta, Gaud. in Freyc. Voy. Bot. 497. Stem erect, 8 in. 
to 3 ft. high, slender, about 1 lin. or less thick, scarcely branched, 
with a few stinging hairs or almost glabrous. Leaves with long 
slender petioles, membranous, ovate, acuminate, base broadly 
obtuse to somewhat truncate, margin rather broadly serrate, oT 
crenate-serrate, 14-34 in. long, 1-2 in. wide, with a few stiffish ap- 
pressed hairs on both faces especially on the veins beneath, and 
numerous short linear cystoliths on the lower face ; petiole of varying 
lengths, sometimes rather shorter, sometimes longer than the leaf- 
