Pouzolzia. | CXXIIIp. URTICACEH (Rendle). 293 
long, divided about half-way into 4 or 5 ovate acute segments, 
puberulous on the back. Stigma long, slender. Fruiting perianth 
(unripe) broadly ovoid, constricted above, about 2 lin. long, puberu- 
lous, and with inconspicuous longitudinal nerves, closely investing 
the smooth white achene. 
Mozamb., Distr. Nyasaland: Shire Highlands, Scott Elliot, 8679 ! 
Comparison of specimens may prove the last three species to be conspecific. 
10. P. parasitica, Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. ii. 145. 
Perennial shrub, growing in forest or under tree-shade ; stems 3-6 ft. 
high, terete, reddish-brown with thin separable bark and about 
i in. thick, erect or ascending with long slender erect branches 
which are herbaceous, at any rate in the upper part, and hirtellous 
or pubescent, lower nodes bare. Leaves long- to shorter-stalked, 
ovate, ovate-elliptic, sometimes roundly ovate, acuminate, base 
cuneate to rounded, rarely truncate, entire, the rest of the margin 
crenate-serrate, 2-43 in. long, 1}-23 in. wide, 3-nerved, the lateral 
nerves passing well above the middle generally into the upper third 
of the blade, with two upper lateral nerves on each side ; upper face 
sparsely hispidly hairy and dotted with whitish cystoliths, more 
or less pubescent beneath especially on the somewhat prominent 
slender nerves; petiole slender, pubescent, generally between 
2 and 2 in. long. Stipules brown, glumaceous, triangular-ovate to 
lanceolate, acuminate, 3-5 lin. long, with long hairs on the well- 
marked midrib and margin, persistent and forming an involucre 
for the axillary inflorescence. Flower-clusters 2-3 lin. in diam., 
consisting of numerous short-stalked male and a few sessile female. 
Male perianth campanulate, about 1 lin. long, divided to about the 
middle into 4 (sometimes 3) ovate shortly mucronate-acuminate 
Segments, puberulous on the back. Stigma slender, longer than 
the perianth, soon falling. Fruiting perianth broadly ovoid, acute, 
a little over 1 lin. long, puberulous especially in the upper part, 
longitudinally nerved, closely investing the white polished achene.— 
Engl. in Mildbraed, Wiss. Ergebn. Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. 
1907-8, ii. 191. P. procridioides, Wedd. Monogr. Urtic. 412, and in 
DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 231; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 194; Hiern 
in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 992. Bahmeria procridioides, Bl. Mus. 
Bot. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 204. Margarocarpus procridioides, Wedd. in 
Ann. Sci. Nat. 4me sér. i. 204. Urtica muralis, Vahl, Symb. i. 77. 
U. parasitica, Forsk. Fi. AEgypt.-Arab. 160. U. procridioides, 
- Meyer ex Drége, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 150, 151 (name only). 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Mount Sholoda, at 6600 ft., Schimper, 278! and 
i ; ] . British East Africa: Kitui, 
Rg A aah te cing asda, 5300 ft., Scott Elliot, 
761 ! and at 7000-8000 ft., Scott Elliot, 7761! Kipayo, 4000 ft., Dummer, 
! 855! ee 7 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Benguella; near Bumbo, Welwitsch, 6278 ! 
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