Forskohlea.| — CXX11p. URTICACER (Rendle). 303 
in Miss. Révoil. 65; Balfour in Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinb. xxxi. 283 ; 
Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. ii. 148; Hiern in Cat. Afr. 
Pl. Welw. i. 994; Almagia in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 118; 
Engl. & Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 220. 
Nile Land. Soudan: Khartoum, Massey! Red Sea Province, about 21° N. lat. 
Bent! 'Tamanib, Lord! Abyssinia: on rocks near Gageros, 4000 ft., Schimper, 
2298! Eritrea: Togodele and Dahlac Islands, Hhrenberg! Dahlac Islands, 
Terracciano, 254, 619, 701, 791, 840, 984, Pirotta, 4479; Samhar, Z'erracciano 
& Pirotia, 47, 60, 61, 2303, Pirotia, 36, 1255; Habab, Terracciano & Pirotta, 
1055; Assaorta, Terracciano, 20, 28, 63, 619; Terracciano & Pirotta, 21 ; Pirotta, 
1, 25, 43, 44, 51, 3615; Amasen; Ghinda, Scotti; Howakel Island, Ehrenberg ; 
Dogali, Schweinfurth & Riva, 253! Saati, Schweinfurth, 42; Lawa Valley, 
Schweinfurth, 1658. Somaliland : Wagga Mountain, Boresti and Berbera, Lort- 
Phillips! Sources of the Aven, Revoil. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes; in shady rocky places, Welwitsch, 
6291! abandoned fields near Cavalheiros, Welwitsch, 6292 ! Open forest at 
kilon. 108°5 on Mossamedes railway, Pearson, 2910! sandy river bed on the 
Caroca, 650 ft., Baum, 3a. 
Also in Socotra and Arabia. 
16. DROGUETIA, Gaud. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 394. 
Flowers moncecious, sometimes dicecious by suppression of the 
androgynous involucres; androgynous involucres few- to many- 
flowered, bowl-shaped, campanulate or ventricose, with toothed 
margin, female involucre 1- or 2-flowered, ventricose. Male flowers 
few to many, shortly stalked ; perianth tubular, club-shaped in bud, 
becoming 3-lobed above in flower. Stamen 1. Ovary-rudiment 
absent. Female flowers sessile, 1 or few in the centre of the invo- 
lucre ; perianth absent. Ovary straight ; stigma filiform, shortly 
papillose on one side, persistent during the ripening of the fruit ; 
ovule erect from the base. Achene included in the involucre, 
woolly or smooth, ovate, compressed; pericarp somewhat thick. 
Seed conforming to the pericarp; testa membranous; albumen 
present ; cotyledons flattened, elliptic—Herbaceous or somewhat 
_ shrubby perennials. Leaves alternate or opposite, stalked, crenate- 
serrate, 3-nerved, with dot-like cystoliths ; petioles slender ; stipules 
lateral, free. Involucres subsessile, generally smaller than in Fors- 
kohlea, shortly pubescent, the androgynous in pairs in the leaf-axil, 
the female borne at the base of an undeveloped axillary shoot. 
Species 5, in tropical and South Africa, Arabia, Madagascar, India and Java. 
Teaves Opposite: 660 iw es ee ae ae LD iners. 
Leaves alternate ... 9 -.. ws qe oo ae SD, dae 
1. D. iners, Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. ii. 146. A 
perennial herb or shrub with a slender woody rhizome ; stems slender, 
erect or ascending from a rooting prostrate base, 2-5 ft. high, obtusely 
angled, pubescent or hirtellous, becoming glabrate below, internodes 
