300 OXXIIIp, URTICACE® (Rendle). | Forskohlea. 
obovate or rhomboid, apex obtuse, base cuneate, often very broadlyso, 
and entire, rest of margin crenate-serrate, generally 4-1 in. or some- 
times to 2 in. long, 3-1} in. wide, with 1-2 lateral nerves on each 
side above the basal pair, upper face dark green when dry, hispid, 
as is the margin, and more or less tomentose, with numerous dotted 
cystoliths, lower face white-tomentose, nerves more or less con- 
spicuous and with stiff hairs; petiole about half the length of the 
blade, slender, hispid. Stipules ovate, acute, scarious, about 2 lin. 
long, with stiff hairs on margin and brown midvein. Heads of 
flowers sessile, 2 or more at each node, sometimes crowded on un- 
developed lateral branchlets; involucre 3-5 lin. long, densely 
clothed almost to the top with silky hairs which are often greenish 
when dry ; bracts generally 4-5, but as few as 2 or as many as 8, 
lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute, hispid above. Flowers in each 
head varying greatly in number, males absent from the 2-leaved 
involucre, otherwise up to 8 or 12; female solitary (in the 2-leaved 
involucre) or up to 6, densely embedded in whitish wool. Male 
perianth unequally 3-lobed, the median lobe larger, rounded and 
ciliate with stiffish hairs. Fruit ovoid-elliptic, apiculate, reddish- 
brown.— Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 23555; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 
1151; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. ii. 148; Hook. f. Fi. 
Brit. Ind. v. 593; Almagia in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 118; 
Deflers, Voy. Yemen, 207; Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1913, 272. Card- 
beja adherens, Forsk. Fl. igypt.-Arab. 82. 
Nile Land. Red Sea Province : about 21° N. lat., Bent! Hillslopes, Sal Lom, 
MacDougal & Sykes, 711 Jebel Hyrae, 3500 ft., Lynes! Somaliland: Wagge 
Mountain, Lort-Phillips! Eritrea: Otoumlo, near Massowa, Schweinfurth & 
Riva, 195! Samhar; Monkullo, Pirotta, 1215; Habab; Ogmat-Obel, Terrac- 
ciano & Pirotta, 1048; Oghet-El-Ain, Terracciano & Pirotta, 1056; Assaorta ; 
Majo-Illalia, 2600 ft., Pirotta, 3566; Illalia-Scilliki, 1300 ft., Pirotta, 3600; 
Zaga-Tata, 650 ft., Pirotta, 2876; Arkico, Pirotta, 52; Afta, Terracciano & 
Pirotta, 19. 
Also in North Africa, and Arabia to N.W. India; a form (F. cossoniana, 
Webb) in S.E. Spain. 
Var. erythrea, Terrace. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, v. 97. Flower-heads in 
groups of 4 or 5, with an abortive small one; involucral bracts 6-7, obovate- 
lanceolate.—Almagia in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 119. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Haressan Island in Anfila Bay, Terracciano, 3°. 
2. F. hereroensis, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 51. A 
low hispid undershrub about 1 ft. high ;. stem about 12 lin. in diam. 
at the base, becoming very slender above, branching from the base 
upwards ; branches ascending, slender, hairs stiff, upcurved, varying 
very much in size, Leaves elliptic-ovate, apex generally blunt, 
base cuneate and narrowing into the petiole, entire, margin sinuate- 
dentate, inrolled, hispidulous, 3-1 in. long, 3-2 in. wide, pinnately 
nerved, with a pair of lateral nerves a short distance from the base 
and one or two above on either side, when dry stiff, with upper face 
