250 CXXIIIp. URTICACE2 (Rendle). [ Fleurya. 
F. peduncularis, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 75. Urtica pedun- 
cularis, E. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 143 (name). 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Kwa Mshuza, Engler, 9019! Kili- 
manjaro; Marangu, 5300 ft., Volkens, 2319! Gazaland: Chirinda Forest, 
3700-4000 ft., Swynnerton, 338 ! 793 ! d 
Also in South Africa. 
6. F. mooreana, Rendle. An annual violently stinging herb, 
3-5 (more rarely 6) ft. high; stem erect or ascending and rooting 
at the base, branching above, slender, 2 lin. or less thick, bearmg 
numerous spreading stinging hairs, each on a prominent base, 
2-3 lin. long, otherwise glabrous. Leaves with long petioles, thin and 
papery when dry, deltoid, apex long-acuminate, base apparently 
truncate, but split for 2-3 lin. with overlapping rounded edges giving 
the appearance of a peltate base, margin grossly toothed, the teeth 
becoming larger below, the lowermost recurved, 3-5 in. long, 2-3} in. 
wide, glabrous above, with short appressed hairs on the lower face, 
especially on the veins ; petiole longer or sometimes shorter than 
the leaf, 24-5 in. long, hairy like the stem ; stipules small, lanceolate, 
acuminate, about 14 lin. long, caducous. Inflorescences unisexual, 
lax, much elongated and narrowly pyramidal in outline, 6-7 in. long, 
the upper female, far exceeding the smaller subtending leaves and 
bearing the loosely clustered flowers on short lateral branches, 
the lower male, equal to or sometimes exceeding the larger leaves, the 
flowers in small roundish clusters on the slender main axis or in the 
lower half on the slender horizontally spreading branches, the lower- 
most of which are 1-1} in. long. Male flowers in bud depressed- 
globose and a little over 1 lin. in diam. ; perianth 4-partite, segments 
with a small subapical umbo in the bud. Female flower: lateral 
perianth-lobes broadly ovate, blunt, with minutely ciliolate marg!? 
enveloping the ovary, anterior lobe very small, posterior minute or 
obsolete ; stigma broadly linear, subapical, nearly as long as pe 
ovary. Achene sharply deflexed at the end of the slender stalk 
which is equal to or twice its length, pale brown, compressee, 
obliquely pyriform in outline with a marginal wing, and a central 
depressed minutely warted area, a little over lin. long ; the lateral 
perianth-lobes short, covering only the base of the achene.—F. 970884 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 989; not of Wedd. Adicea mooreant, 
Hiern, |.c. 991. Pilea mooreana, K. Schum. in Just, Jahresber. Xxviil. 
i. 463. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; Welwitsch, 6276! oe 
Welwitsch, 6273! primary forests of Mata de Pungo, Welwitsch, 6256 ! 62 
partly ! : 
Distinguished from F. grossa, Wedd., a South African species, by the oer 
oe inflorescences and the rather broadly winged compressed W 
achenes. 
Nos. 6256, 6276 of Welwitsch are Adicea mooreana, Hiern, which is apparently 
