304 OXXIIIp. URTICACEH (Rendle). | Droguetia. 
generally elongated, often as long as or longer than the leaf ; branches 
numerous, short, spreading or ascending, very slender, leafy. Leaves 
opposite, ovate, acuminate, base obtuse to rounded, margin above 
the base crenate-dentate, on the main shoots 1}-2 in. long, #-1 in. 
wide, smaller on the branches, 3-nerved, membranous when dry, 
upper face with a few stiffish appressed hairs, and dotted with cysto- 
liths, lower face more or less hairy on the nerves; petiole slender, 
often about a quarter the length of the blade, rarely nearly half as 
long. Stipules ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute to subulate-acuminate, 
14-2 lin. long, scarious, hairy on the midrib. Inflorescence axillary, 
consisting in the more complete cases of an androgynous involucre 
above each stipule and an undeveloped axillary shoot bearing opposite 
dichasia of female involucres containing one or two flowers which 
mature later; androgynous involucre bowl-shaped to campanulate 
with shallowly toothed margin containing many to few male flowers 
surrounding one or two female, 1-24 lin. in diam., with scanty wool 
among the flowers; female involucre ventricose-tubular with 
shortly toothed mouth ; involucres pubescent on the outside. The 
androgynous involucres may be much reduced or absent, in the 
latter case the whole plant may be female. Male flowers shortly 
stalked, about 1 lin. long, perianth 3-lobed above, the middle lobe 
acute to acuminate, 1 lin. long, puberulous above. Achene com- 
pressed. ventricose-ovate, about 3 lin. long, shiny black.—Engl. in 
Mildbraed, Wiss. Ergebn. Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. 1907-8, 
ii. 192; R. EH. Fries, Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Rhodes.-Kongo Exped. 
1911~12.1.18. D. diffusa, Wedd. in Ann. Sci. Nat. 4me sér. 1. 211 and 
Monogr. Urtic. 541, t. 19, figs. A, 1-11; Hook. f. in FI. Brit. Ind. v. 
593. D. pauciflora, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 23558; Engl. Hoch- 
gebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 194 and Pfl. Ost-Afr. ©. 164. Urtica iners, 
Forsk. Fl. Aigypt.-Arab. 160. U. verticillata, Vahl, Symbol. 1. 76. 
U. pauciflora, Hochst. ex Steud. in Flora, 1850, 258. U. wrens, vat. 
iners, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 40. Pouzolzia pauciflora, A. Rich. 
Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 259. Forskohlea urticoides, Wight, Ic. Pl. t. 1982. 
Didymogyne abyssinica, Wedd. in Ann. Sci. Nat. 4me sér. i. 207. 
Behmeria pauciflora, Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 201. B. parvi- 
folia, Wedd. l.c. 203 and Monogr. Urtic. 359. 
Nile Land, Abyssinia: Mount Silke, Schimper, 682! Debra Tabor, 8500 ft., 
Schimper, 1143! and without precise locality, Schimper, 627! Uganda : 
Ruwenzori, 6000-9000 ft., Scoit Hiliot, 7708! West side of Ruwenzorl; Ka- 
longe, 8500 ft., Mildbraed, 2490. 
Va a Africa: Kilimanjaro ; Marangu, a oe 
1638. British Central ‘Africa im NGG Duchewen mre pte 
Also in Arabia, India (Nilgiri Hills), and Java. 
2. D. debilis, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1917, 203. A weak plant with 
slender wiry stems, woody, prostrate and rooting below, then ascend- 
ing, 3 lin. or less thick, 4-6 in. long, with a few short weak ascending 
