258° CXXIIIp. URTICACEZ (Rendle). [Urera. 
the petiole, loosely paniculate, up to 6 in. long, including the slender 
peduncle (24 in.), branches slender ; flowers clustered at intervals on 
the densely puberulous ultimate branches ; pedicels densely puberu- 
lous, a little over 1 lin. long ; flowers puberulous, a little over 4 lin. mn 
diam. ; perianth 5-partite. Female inflorescence in the axils of the 
foliage-leaves, exceeding the petiole but much smaller than the male 
and with shorter branches, puberulous, 14-3 in. long ; flowers several 
together on short stalks at the end of the short ultimate branchlets, 
surrounded by numerous stiff stinging hairs; perianth bluntly 4 
toothed, reaching about half-way up the ovoid ovary ; stigma an 
oblique circular tuft of short hairs. Perianth orange in fruit (Vogel). 
—Wedd. Monogr. Urtic. 159, and in DC. Prodr. xvi. 1. 97 partly ; 
Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. x. 162. | Bochmeria (Proeris? ) riguda, 
Benth. le. 519. Urtica rigida, Don in Herb. 
Upper Guinea. Sicrra Leone: Bulumba, 650 fl., Thomas, 1920! without 
precise locality, Vogel, 64! Don! §. Nigeria: Lagos; western interior, 
Rowland! Abeokuta, Millen ! 
Var. Quintastt, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 120. A liane ; stem and petiole 
armed with numerous simple conical and 2- to 3-forked spines, which are some- 
times 14-2 lin. long. Leaf large, orbicular-ovate, long-acuminate, margm 
shortly and closely toothed, about 6-8 in. long and wide ; petiole 4 to 5 times 
shorter than the blade, puberulous. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Barombi, in bush-wood, Preuss, 57; Victoria, 
Preuss. 
Lower Guinea. Princes Island: primary forest, Quintas, 159. 
Fish-snares are made from the bast. 
5. U. Elliotii, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1916, 369. Young branches 
stout and apparently succulent, sparsely armed with slender protuber- 
ances bearing a small terminal stinging hair, a few shorter similar 
structures occur on the petiole and main nerves, shortly hispidulous, 
reddish-brown. Leaves elliptic-ovate, apex obscurely acuminate, 
base rounded, margin somewhat irregularly crenate-dentate, base 
3-nerved, with one or two lateral nerves on each side above, nerves 
conspicuous as are also the transverse cross-unions and intervenllg 
network, 4-6 in. long, 3-4 in. wide, hispidulous on both faces, cysto- 
liths short, linear, following the nerves and veins on the lower face ; 
petiole stoutish, up to 1% in. long. Female inflorescence spreading, 
axis repeatedly forked, about 3 in. long, copiously armed with pro- 
tuberances similar to but much smaller than those on the stem; 
flowers aggregated in small shortly stalked heads on the ultimate 
branchlets, associated with little groups of stinging hairs. Ovary 
completely enveloped in the younger flower in the sac-like almost 
tubular perianth which later becomes ellipsoid-ovoid, the somewhat 
flattened stigma protruding from the narrow mouth. Achene 
chestnut-brown, ovoid, 1 lin. long, enveloped in the succulent yellow 
perianth. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Limba Country; near Bafodeya, Scoil 
Elliot, 5559 ! 
