Fleurya.] OXXIIIp. URTICACEH (Rendle). 249 
blade ; stipules joined to about the middle, free limb linear-subulate, 
ciliolate, about 4 in. long. Inflorescencés narrow, generally longer 
than the leaves, bearing sessile clusters at intervals on the long 
slender stalk or its few short branches, clusters bisexual, male flowers 
few, soon falling. Male perianth 4-partite, segments hispid on the 
outside, “‘ whitish or rosy with a median green nerve” (Weddell). 
Female perianth 4-partite, the anterior segment smaller than the 
other three, the lateral. pair becoming ultimately largest, margin 
minutely ciliolate, the upper keeled and passing into the short 
dilated joint of the pedicel; stigma about half the length of the 
ovary, obscurely branched at the base. Achene deflexed, pale brown, 
compressed, ovate, narrowly winged, the median area depressed and 
more or less minutely warted, about ? lin. long—Wedd. Monogr. 
Urtic. 115, t. 1A, fig. 9, and in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 74; Wight, Ic. t. 
1975; Schlechter, Westafr. Kautschuk-Exped. 286. Urtica inter- 
rupta, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 985. U. lomatocarpa, Hochst. ex Steud. in 
Flora, 1850, 260; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 261. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Mai-Mezano, Schimper, 1471! Hamedo, 4700 ft., 
and near Bellitschen, 4000 ft., Schimper, 88! British East Africa: Nyika 
country ; Wakefield! 
Lower Guinea. Belgian Congo: near Leopoldville, Schlechter, 12537. 
_ 5. F. capensis, Wedd. Monogr. Urtic. 117, t. 1 A, figs. 7, 8, but not 
m Ann, Sci. Nat. 4me sér. i. 183. Moncecious or dicecious. Stems 
erect from a slender creeping rhizome about 1 lin. thick, 1-3 ft. high, 
slender with the habit of F. interrupta, with a few stinging hairs, 
pubescent in the younger portions. Leaves with long slender petioles, 
very similar to those of Ff. interrupta, margin serrate, teeth broad, 
acute or subacute, hairs and cystoliths as in F. interrupta ; petiole 
generally rather shorter than the blade ; stipules as in F. interrupta. 
nflorescences unisexual: male generally longer than the petiole, 
generally forked twice or thrice and bearing small round heads of 
Subsessile flowers on the short branchlets; flower-bud globular- 
depressed, about 13 lin. in diam. ; perianth-segments 5, pale-coloured 
with a greenish central line, passing into a blunt keel beneath the 
apex, sparsely hairy or glabrate. Female in few-flowered sessile 
clusters at intervals on a slender peduncle or its few branches, the 
inflorescence sometimes shorter, sometimes longer than the petiole ; 
perianth 4-partite, the dorsal segment ultimately about half the 
length of the lateral pair, keeled, the keel passing into the short 
dilated joint of the pedicel, lateral segments about half the length of 
the achene, anterior segment very small, margin of segments minutely 
glandular-ciliate ; stigma simple, ovate-lanceolate, Achene broadly 
ovate, about 3 lin. long, smooth, not winged, crowned with the long 
Persistent recurving’stigma (about two-thirds the length of the 
achene).—Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xl. 206; Wood, Natal 
Pl. vi. t. 577. F. mitis, Wedd. in Ann. Sci. Nat. |.c. (name). 
