260 CXXIIIp. URTICACE (Rendle). [Urera. 
supported by simple or forked protuberances bearing short stinging 
hairs; perianth shallowly 4-lobed with margin ciliolate, about half 
the length of the broadly ovoid ovary which is about lin. long. 
Fruit ‘a scarlet berry.” 
Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria: Oban, Talbot, 618! 1502! 
8. U. Mannii, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 383. A shrubby 
climber with stems 15-20 ft. long; branches unarmed, reddish or 
reddish-green, young parts pubescent or puberulous. Leaves 
elliptic or elliptic-ovate, apex abruptly and shortly acute, base 
cordate, often only slightly, margin crenate-dentate, base 3-nerved, 
with 3-4 ascending lateral nerves on each side curving to unite within 
the margin, 3-6 in. long, 2}-3} in. wide, upper face with appressed 
short stinging hairs and sparsely pubescent or glabrous, lower face 
pubescent with short stinging hairs on the veins, cystoliths short, 
linear, more or less conspicuous on the upper face, closely following the 
venation, or absent from the lower ; petiole 1-12 in. long, pubescent 
and with short stinging hairs, or puberulous. Stipules ovate, long- 
acuminate, } in. long, pubescent, caducous. Female inflorescence 
much branched, up to 4 in. long and about 3} in. broad, branches 
somewhat flattened, primary spreading, up to 14 in. long, secondary 
up to ? in. long, the short tertiary or quaternary branches few- 
flowered, bearing a tuft of stinging hairs below the short pedicels. 
Ovary shortly ovoid, about $ lin. long, at first completely enveloped 
in the sac-like perianth, above which the round ferruginous tufted 
stigma projects. Achene broadly subcompressed-ovoid, enveloped 
except at the extreme tip by the fleshy yellow perianth, which 1s 
barely 1 lin. long and is frequently split into two valves.—U. Graven- 
reuthvi, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 120. Scepocarpus Manni, Wedd. 
in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 98. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann, 176! Cameroons: Buea, 4000 ft., 
Preuss, 909! 
Var. paucinervis, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1916,370. Leaves smaller than in the 
type, tending sometimes to obovate-elliptic, with 2 (rarely 3) lateral nerves 02 
each side above the 3-nerved base ; indumentum as in the species. Female 
inflorescences in the upper leaf-axils, ovate in outline, up to 4 in. long including 
the peduncle (14 in.), branches spreading ; ovary ovoid, bearing at its oblique 
apex the circular tuft of short stigmatic hairs and protruding above the shallowly 
lobed perianth. 
Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria: Lagos, Dalziel, 1021! 
9. U. cordifolia, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 121. A climber with 
purplish branches armed with numerous compressed elongate 
triangular and 2- to 3-forked spines ending in stinging hairs ; flowet 
ing shoots 23-5 lin. thick. Leaves ovate-cordate, acuminate to 
acute, margin undulate, lateral nerves 4 on each side, ascending, 
secondary nerves numerous, transverse, somewhat prominent 
