286 OXXIIIp. URTICACES (Rendle). [ Behmeria. 
Var. ugandensis, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1917, 201. A straggling shrub 4-8 ft. 
high, hirsute; leaves stiff when dry, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic, more rarely 
ovate, acuminate, base rounded, margin regularly serrate-dentate except at the 
base, 4-7} in. long, 14-23, rarely 3}, in. wide, upper face rugulose and scabrid, 
lower face hirsute especially on the nerves and veins, prominently 3-nerved. 
Spikes simple, exceeding the leaves. Fruiting perianth compressed, shortly 
obovoid to rounded, with a short neck, hispidulous in the upper part. 
Nile Land. Uganda, at 3900-5000 ft.: Buddu, Scott Hlliot, 7531! Entebbe, 
Bagshawe, 799! Mawokota, Brown, 204! Ankole, Dawe, 423! Kirerema, 
Diimmer, 89! Kipayo, Diimmer, 979! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Monbuttu; at the River Kussumbo, 
Schweinfurth, 3204! Assika River, Schweinfurth, 3128 ! 
Var. angolensis, Rendle, l.c. A shrub of pyramidal habit up to 8 ft. high, 
young shoots and leaves pubescent; leaves flaccid, elliptic with a cuneate base, 
apex acute or shortly acuminate, margin regularly dentate-serrate above the 
base, 6-9 in. long, 3-4 in. wide. Fruiting perianth compresscd, rotund to 
obovoid, neck short, hirtellous above the base. 
: Lower Guinea. Angola: Cazengo; Granja de S. Luiz, Gossweiler, 4656! 
851! 
Var. nigeriana, Wedd. in DC. Prodr.” xvi. i. 213. Branches, petioles and 
rhachis of inflorescence hirsute ; leaves somewhat narrowly ovate-elliptic, long- 
acuminate, base obtuse, emarginate at the insertion of the petiole, margin 
(except at the base and tip) regularly dentate-serrate throughout, 3-6 in. long, 
1}-2, rarely 2}, in. wide, petiole 1-1? in. long, the two leaves of a pair generally 
unequal and with unequal petioles, hirsute to glabrate, upper face generally 
more or less hispid, lower face more or less hirsute on the nerves and veins. 
Spikes simple, solitary in the leaf-axils, spreading. Fruit compressed, obovoid, 
puberulous in the upper portion. 
Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria: Aboh, Barter, 114! Cameroons: 
Efulen, Bates, 214! Bipinde, Zenker, 4034! 
The species is also recorded from the following localities, but I have not seen 
rs specimens and am therefore unable to distribute them among the various 
orms. 
Lower Guinea. Belgian Congo: Kisantu, (Gillet, 158. 
Use Central. Belgian Congo: Ituri, Mildbraed, 2926; Beni, Wildbraed, 
12. POUZOLZIA, Gaud.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 387. 
Flowers generally moncecious, in clusters at the leaf-axils. Male: 
Perianth 4-5-lobed or -partite, rarely 3-partite, segments valvate, 
often acute or shortly acuminate but without an appendage. Stamens 
equal in number to the perianth-segments. Ovary rudiment present. 
Female: Perianth forming a sac round the ovary, narrowing above 
and constricted at the mouth which is 2-4-toothed. Ovary com- 
pletely enclosed by the perianth ; stigma generally linear or filiform, 
hairy on one side, borne on a short style above the mouth of the 
perianth, generally soon falling ; ovule erect from the base. Achene 
enclosed in the persistent perianth and conforming to it; pericarp 
generally smooth and shining, brittle. Seed conforming to the 
pericarp; testa thin; albumen very scanty or none; cotyledons 
