266 CXXIIIp. URTICACE® (Rendle). [Girardinia. 
entire or 2-fid, 3 in. long, strongly 2-nerved, puberulous. Male 
inflorescence laxly paniculate, about as long as the petiole, 8 in.; 
flowers densely clustered on the axis and spreading branches which 
are similar in their hairs to the petioles ; pedicels up to 1} lin. long, 
softly hairy ; perianth 4—5-partite, 14 lin. long, the concave seg- 
ments bearing a triangular horn-like projection below the incurved 
membranous blunt apex: in one specimen a small inflorescence con- 
taining both male and female branches occurs. Female inflorescence 
consisting of an axis and a few short branches densely covered with 
lobe-like cymes, shorter or longer than the leaf-stalk, densely beset 
with stinging hairs; flowers densely crowded, subsessile ; perianth 
2-lobed, upper lobe larger, about 2 lin. long, enveloping the ovary, 
with a dorsal keel and gibbous below the minutely 3-toothed apex, 
lower lobe small, narrow, subulate. The inflorescence in fruit forms 
very dense cylindrical lobulate structures up to 6 in. long (including 
a stalk of 1 in.) and 1 in. thick. Achene rounded, 2 lin. in diam., 
blackish-brown, surface granulate——Wedd. Monogr. Urtic. 168, and 
t. 2, B, figs. 5-7, and in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 102; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. 
Trop. Afr. 193 and in Mildbraed, Wiss. Ergebn. Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr. 
Exped. 1907-8, ii. 190. Urtica bullosa, Hochst. ex Steud. in Flora, 
1850, 259; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 262. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: near Jenausa, Schimper, 1409! Gafat, 8200 ft., 
Schimper, 1261! Samen; Ghaba, Steudner, 1337; and without precise locality, 
Schimper, 622! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Ruanda; south of Karisimbi, Mild- 
braed, 1503. : 
2. G. condensata, Wedd. Monogr. Urtic. 169, and t. 2, B, figs. 1-4. 
A herb, moneecious or dicecious ; stem erect, 14-6 ft. high, simple ot 
slightly branched, somewhat succulent, furrowed, hirtellous and beset 
with sharp stinging hairs, as are also the petioles, becoming glabrous 
below. leaves very variable in form and size, simple and ovate oF 
rotund-ovate, with acuminate apex and serrate or grossly serrate 
margin, becoming even on the same plant 3-lobed to deeply 3-lobed, 
lobes acuminate, with more or less serrate margin and sometimes 
with a shorter secondary lobe, base roundéd, or very blunt to truncate 
or somewhat cordate, conspicuously 3-nerved, lateral nerves at 
veins more or less conspicuous beneath, 2-10 in. long, 14-10 in. wide, 
thinly membranous when dry, upper face dotted with cystoliths an 
with appressed white hairs, also a few stinging hairs on the nerves, 
lower face similarly hairy ; petiole generally less than half the lengt 
of the leaf. United stipules broadly ovate, 2-fid at the apex, some- 
what hispid, soon falling. Inflorescences unisexual, generally 
solitary in the leaf-axils, with a short peduncle, sometimes a secon 
of alternative sex is present. Male simple, forked or with a few lax 
branches shorter or longer than the petiole, flowers densely arrange 
along the axes; bud about 1 lin, in diam.; perianth 4—5-partite, 
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