Pouzolzia. CXXIlIp. URTICACEA (Rendle). 291 
stigma at least 3 lin. long, densely covered on one side with short 
brown hairs. Unripe fruiting perianth barely 1 lin. long, ventricose- 
ovoid, constricted below the minutely 3-dentate mouth, with evident 
longitudinal nerves, puberulous in upper portion. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; in shady forests at Catumba Welwitsch, 
6290! Ambriz, Monteiro! 
: 6. P. hypoleuca, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi.-i. 227. A moncecious 
_ perennial 3-4 ft. sometimes 12 ft. high, with somewhat large fleshy 
roots. Stems leafy, woody below, simple or branched, terete, puberu- 
lous, 2 lin. thick at about a foot below the apex and with internodes 
varying in length from }to1}in. Leaves ample, elliptic to elliptic- 
ovate, acuminate, base blunt to subacute, margin entire, 3-6 in. 
long, 13-23 in. wide, 3-nerved, lateral pair of nerves ascending for 
two-thirds the length of the blade, with two additional lateral nerves 
on each side, upper face sparsely hairy, minutely scabridulous with 
humerous dot-like cystoliths, lower face closely covered except 
on the nerves with a thin white tomentum ; petiole rather stout, 
densely puberulous, $-12 in. long. Stipules glumaceous, lanceolate- 
acuminate with a well-marked pubescent midrib on the back, margin 
not ciliate, 4-5 lin. long. Flowers crowded in roundish axillary 
clusters, male and female intermixed ; bracts small, scarious. Male 
Perianth shortly campanulate, puberulous, 1 lin. long, 5-partite to 
about one-third from the base, segments ovate, shortly acuminate ; 
pedicels persistent, puberulous, about aslong asthe perianth. Female 
flowers sessile ; perianth puberulous, the narrow mouth 2-dentate, 
less than 1 lin. long; stigma very long, narrow-linear, 2-24 lin. long, 
minutely hairy, and persisting for some time during the ripening of 
the fruit. Fruiting perianth broadly compressed-ovoid with acute 
tip, puberulous, 1 lin. long, closely investing the polished whitish 
to brown-black achene.—Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 296. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Lower Kondeland: near Langen- 
berg at 1600 ft., Goetze, 858, Nyasaland: Plains of Zomba, 2500-3000 ft., 
Whyte! Purves, 226! foot of Mount Moramballa, Kirk! Shire Highlands ; 
Mbome, Buchanan, 164! and without further locality Buchanan, 929! Rho- 
desia : Victoria, Monro, 892! Matabele Country, Holub, 1352! 
A fibre known to the natives as Lichopwa is obtained from the stems of this 
Plant (Purves), 
Also Transvaal and Natal. 
7. P. mixta, Solms in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 188. A mo- 
necious shrub with woody somewhat angled branches which bear 
the remains of past inflorescences, young branches clothed with 
Spreading soft white hairs. Leaves alternate, short-stalked, ovate, 
acuminate, margin entire, }-1} in. long, 7 lin. wide, upper face 
densely covered with short hairs, under face especially when young 
More or less white-tomentose; petiole 2} lin. long. Stipules 
