Urera.} CXXIIIp. URTICACEH (Rendle), 259 
6. U. Batesii, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1916. 368. A shrub, trailing or 
climbing by rootlets ; stems slender, purplish, 20 ft. long (Mann), 
unarmed and glabrous. Leaves elliptic to ovate-elliptic, apex shortly 
acuminate, blunt, base shallowly cordate, margin inconspicuously 
crenate or becoming almost entire especially below the middle, 3- 
nerved with 2-3 ascending Jateral nerves on each side, lateral nerves 
Jomed by conspicuous parallel transverse veins, reticulation some- 
what prominent, 4-54 in. long, 24-34 in. wide, thinly membranous 
when dry, upper face much darker than the lower and with a few 
stinging hairs, otherwise glabrous, upper face densely covered with 
linear cystoliths, which closely follow the venation on the lower face ; 
petiole rather slender, 1-3 in. long, greyish when dry from the densely 
crowded cystoliths. Stipules caducous. Inflorescences a little 
longer or shorter than the petioles ; male 3 in. or less in length, with 
a short peduncle and a few compressed spreading branches bearing 
the flowers in a few separated clusters ; pedicel about } lin. long, 
unopened flower about 1 lin. in diam. ; perianth 5-partite, with a 
few short spreading hairs on the back ; rudimentary ovary inverted- 
turbinate. Female inflorescence somewhat corymbosely panicu- 
late, branches somewhat compressed ; flowers in few-flowered clus- 
ters on the short branchlets accompanied by a few short stinging 
hairs ; perianth shallowly 4-lobed, above which projects the ovoid 
Ovary. Apex of ripe fruit projecting above the berry-like fleshy 
perianth which is about 1 lin. long. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Efulen, Bates, 364! 364a! Fernando Po: 
Clarence Peak, 1300 ft., Mann, 305! 
A specimen, with young female inflorescence, from Yaunde (Cameroons) 
(Zenker, no. 673 !) may be conspecific with the above. The leaves are larger, 
ed wl as long and 44 in. wide, with a somewhat truncate base, and the branches 
ar. 
7. U. Talbotii, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1916, 369. A shrub, trailing 
or climbing by rootlets ; stem to } in. thick, glabrous but profusely 
armed with simple or forked protuberances which end in a very small 
Stinging hair. Leaves broadly elliptic, apex rounded and abruptly 
acuminate, base emarginate, margin inconspicuously crenate or 
slightly undulate, nerves as in U. Batesi?, 4-6 in. long, 2-4 in. wide, 
thinly membranous when dry, upper face much darker than the 
lower, glabrous, cystoliths linear, scattered on the upper face, minute 
and following the reticulation on the lower ; petiole slender, $—2} in. 
long. Stipules ovate-triangular, acute, 4 lin. long, strongly nerved. 
ale inflorescence large, a spreading puberulous panicle 8 in. long by 
U1 in. broad, the flowers in clusters on dwarf shoots which are spaced 
along the lateral branches ; pedicels slender, 14-2 lin. long ; open 
flower about 14 lin. across, perianth 5-partite. Female inflorescence 
Much smaller than the male, paniculate, pyramidal in outline, 4 in. 
long; flowers in few-flowered clusters on the short branchlets, 
