294 CXXIIIp. URTICACEH (Rendle). Pouzolzia. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Kissenye, on the Ninagongo River, 8000- 
9500 ft., Mildbraed, 1342. 
Mozamb. Distr. Nyasaland, Buchanan, 920! 
Also South Africa and Arabia ; and also (according to Weddell) in tropical 
South America. Schweinfurth (l.c.) states that Forskal’s specimen of Urtica 
parasitica, upon which also U. muralis, Vahl, is based, is identical with 
Pouzolzia procridioides, Wedd. 
11. P. Erythrex, Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. ii. 146. 
An annual herb, 1 ft. high, hirtellous to puberulous, with a few thin 
erect branches. Leaves thinly membranous, long-stalked, ovate, 
acutely cuspidate, base subrhomboid passing abruptly and nearly 
at a right angle into the petiole, margin ciliate and except in 
the lower third crenate-serrate, 3 to 1} in. long, }-} in. wide, 3- 
nerved, the lateral nerves ending in the upper third of the blade, 
with 3-4 horizontally spreading lateral nerves on each side, bearing 
long scattered hairs on either face and very minutely tuberculate ; 
petiole weak, 3-14 in. long. Stipules subulate from a broad ‘base, 
ciliate. Flower-clusters axillary, few-flowered, androgynous. Male 
flowers pentandrous, with 5 elliptic acuminate perianth-segments 
which are hairy and bear 3 apical bristles. Fruiting perianth ovoid, 
compressed, keeled on one side, hirtellous, with an irregular network 
of veins, ? lin. long, closely adhering to the achene. Achene crowned 
with the linear remnant of the deciduous stigma about half its length, 
dull brown, and finely granulate. : 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Gaaba; Lawa Valley, 1100 ft., Schweinfurth, 1658. 
12. P. piscicelliana, Buscalioni & Muschler in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 
465. A small delicate annual herb, barely 6 in. high; stem simple 
or slightly branched ; branches thin, erect, terete, inconspicuously 
striated, when young more or less densely covered with long white 
spreading hairs but soon becoming less hairy ; internodes up to 
about 1} in. long. Leaves light green, long-stalked, broadly ovate 
or ovate-rotund, narrowed towards the acute cuspidate apex, base 
subrhomboid and passing abruptly and almost at a right angle into 
the petiole, margin toothed, teeth minute, about 3 lin. apart and 
less than 3 lin. high, somewhat mucronulate, 3-nerved, thinly mem 
branous, at first minutely pubescent on both sides with the cha- 
racteristic spreading hairs but generally soon becoming glabrous; 
petiole very slender, almost threadlike, wp to 3-1 in. long, more 
less densely covered with minute spreading hairs. Stipules subulate 
from a broad base, somewhat ciliate. Flower clusters androgynous, 
few-flowered. Male flowers pentandrous; perianth-segments 5, 
elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, hairy and with 3 long apical bristles. 
Fruiting perianth and achene as in P. Erythrew, but the perianth 
with a somewhat dense covering of rather long soft hairs. 
Mozamb. Distr. Rhodesia: Be 2 ft. 
Helena von Aosta, 512. eg tween Buana Mukuba and Sekontui, 4000 1» 
