252 CXXIIIp. URTICACEH (Rendle). [Fleurya. 
Mann, 476! Angiama, Barter, 92! Obu, Thomas, 384! Aguku, Thomas, 
761! Oban, Talbot, 690! Old Calabar, Robb! Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 
1105! 3798! Efulen, Bates, 415! 424! Fernando Po; Barter! at 1000 ft., 
Mann, 313! : 
Nile Land. Uganda: Sesse Islands, in Lake Victoria, Carpenter, bet 
Entebbe, Bagshawe, 744! and without precise locality, Scott Elliot, 7338! 
Ruwenzori; Wimi Valley, Scott Elliot,7891 ! E. Ruwenzori, 5000 ft., Wollaston! 
Lower Guinea. Loango: near Chinchosho, Soyaux,222! Angola: Golungo 
Alto ; River Cuango, Welwitsch, 6266 ! 6296! Mata de Quisuculo, Welwitsch, 
6265! Cazengo; Granja de S. Luiz, Gossweiler, 4625 ! ae 
South Central. Belgian Congo: between Fort Beni and Ruwenzori, Mild- 
braed, 2465. 
A specimen from Fernando Po (Barter), consisting of male scapes and a 
stolon bearing fruit, has crowded, smaller, less compressed smooth achenes 
about 1 lin. long, which were apparently completely buried. 
Var. Mannii, Wedd. lc. A herb more than 5 ft. high, with glabrescent 
branches and petioles. Leaves long-stalked, larger and proportionately narrower 
than in the species, 44-6 in. long, 24-3} in. wide, with a few white appressed 
hairs on both faces ; petiole slender, more than half as long as the leaf. Btipules 
6-7 lin. long. Inflorescences: male not seen; female consisting of a smal 
6—10-flowered cluster of almost sessile flowers on a thread-like axillary peduncle 
barely 2 in. long. Stigma 2 lin. long, with the pair of basal linear appendages 
1-1} lin. long. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, 2500 ft., Mann, 1950! 
4. LAPORTEA, Gaud.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 383. 
Flowers moncecious or dicecious in cymose clusters in a branched 
paniculate inflorescence. Male flowers: Perianth divided into 4 to 
5 ovate segments, bud depressed. Stamens 4 or 5; ovary rudi- 
mentary. Female flowers: Perianth of 4 more or less unequal 
imbricate segments. Ovary soon becoming oblique ; stigma linear, 
ultimately reflexed and persistent ; ovule erect fromthe base. Achene 
very oblique, compressed, the lower portion partly covered with the 
persistent unchanged perianth. Seed conforming to the mem- 
branous pericarp; albumen very scanty; cotyledons broad.— 
Perennial herbs, shrubs or trees, generally beset with stinging hats. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, generally toothed, 3-nerved at the base 
with a few ascending lateral nerves above; cystoliths dot-like. 
Stipules more or less united into a single intrapetiolar structure, 
deciduous. Inflorescences solitary, axillary, unisexual. 
Species about 25, widely distributed through the warmer regions of the Old 
World ; a few in North and Central America. 
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This genus is very near to Fleurya ; it is distinguished by its perennial habi 
and dot-like oyatoliths. ee ms : 
1. L, alatipes, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 215. A herb 3 se 
high, beset with stiff spreading stinging hairs, and short appress¢ d 
hairs. Leaves ovate, sometimes elliptic, acuminate, base rounde 
or obsoletely cordate, sometimes cuneate; margin rather coarsey 
dentate, teeth unequal, becoming smaller in the lower part of the 
