292 CXXIlIp. URTICACES (Rendle). | Pouzolzu. 
lanceolate from an ovate base, very acute, up to 23 lin. long, gluma- 
ceous and reddish-brown. Flowers crowded, axillary ; male numerous, 
female solitary among the male. Male perianth campanulate, 
segments 4 or 5, hairy on the outside with incurved hispidulous 
tips ; stamens exserted. Female perianth ovoid, narrowed and hairy 
above, much shorter than the filiform geniculate stigma. Fruit 
unknown.—Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 224; Schweinf. in Bull. 
Herb. Boiss. iv. App. i. 146. 
Nile Land. Upper Sennar: Fazokl, Cienkowsky. 
Also in Arabia. 
8. P. fruticosa, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 127. A shrub 6-10 ft. 
high, with ascending leafy branches 14-2 ft. long ; internodes 7-10lin. 
long; young shoots somewhat densely covered with white hairs, 
adult shoots brown with a thin readily separable cortex. Leaves 
subcoriaceous, ovate, acute, base rounded or slightly emarginate, 
1-1} in. long, $1 in. wide, lateral nerves 2 to 3 on each side, ascend- 
ing, impressed above, upper face sparsely hairy and. dotted with 
cystoliths, white-tomentose beneath; petiole white-tomentose, 
24-34 lin. long. Stipules broadly lanceolate, acuminate, densely 
covered with white hairs on the back of the midrib. Flower clusters 
about 24 lin. in diam. ; perianth purplish, shortly hairy, about 3 lin. 
long. Male perianth divided to the middle; stamens yellow, 1 lin. 
long. Female perianth ovoid; ovary } lin. long; stigma filiform, 
nearly 2 lin. long. 
Nile Land. Harar: Ererthal, Ellenbeck. 
Perhaps identical with the preceding species, but as I have not seen specimens 
of either and as important details are lacking from the published description 
of P. fruticosa, | hesitate to put them together. 
9. P. shirensis, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1917, 202. A moncecious 
shrub ; branches in specimen 1-2 lin. thick with a thin reddish-brown 
separable bark, and bearing numerous spreading leafy slender hir- 
tellous shoots 5 in. or less in length, with internodes }-} in. long; 
bearing both leaves and inflorescences at the nodes, except at the 
lower from which the leaves have fallen. Leaves shortly stalked, 
membranous, ovate to lanceolate, acute, base blunt, margin entire, 
13-2} in. long, $-1 in. wide, 3-nerved, the lateral nerves ascending 
well into the upper half of the leaf, upper lateral nerves 2-3 on each 
side, upper face scabridulous, lower face marked with the slender 
prominulous nerves and parallel cross-unions, somewhat sparsely 
pubescent, or when young thinly white-tomentose, margin ciliolate ; 
petiole slender, pubescent, 2-4 lin. long. Stipules brown, glumaceous, 
broadly lanceolate, acuminate, 14-2 lin. long, persistent, shortly 
hairy on the back of the midvein. Flowers in dense axillary cluster, 
shorter than the petiole, consisting of numerous male and & few 
female. Male perianth short-stalked, campanulate, about } in. 
