306 CXXIIIp. URTICACEH (Rendle). — [Australina. 
3-nerved, membranous when dry, sparsely hairy on both faces, 
dotted above with minute cystoliths ; petiole 1 lin. or less in length. 
Stipules ovate, free or united in the lower part beneath the petiole, 
scarious, ciliate, nearly 2 lin. or less in length. Male cymules on a 
peduncle 2-3 times as long as the petiole; flowers few, sessile ; 
perianth about } lin. long with a funnel-shaped tube, obscurely 
2-lipped, the inner lobe almost obsolete, the outer broad, abruptly 
acuminate and erect, ciliate on midvein and margin. Female 
flowers generally in a connate pair, sessile ; perianth sac-like, con- 
stricted above to an obtuse bluntly 4-5-toothed mouth, puberulous ; 
style filiform, projecting. Achene ovoid, fuscous ; pericarp thin.— 
A. schimperiana, Wedd. in Ann. Sci. Nat. 4me sér. 1. 212, and in 
Monogr. Urtic. 546, t. 20, C. Pouzolzia flaccida, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. 
Abyss. i. 259. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Shoa, Franqveville! near Adowa and Memsah, Dillon ; 
and without precise locality, 6500 ft., Schimper, 795 ! 
2. A. acuminata, Wedd. in Ann. Sci. Nat. 4me sér. i. 212. An 
annual herb branching from the base, 8-21 in. high; stem erect, 
slender, puberulous, as are also the very slender ascending branches. 
Leaves alternate, ovate, acuminate, base triangular to cuneate and 
entire, margin elsewhere crenate-serrate, in tropical African specimens 
3-14 in. long, 5-10 lin. wide, 3-nerved, membranous, sparsely pilose 
on the upper face and on the veins beneath, dotted with cystoliths 
above, lighter green beneath, margin minutely ciliolate ; petiole 
slender, from one-third to half the length of the blade, puberulous. 
Stipules ovate-lanceolate, thinly long-acuminate, up to 2 lin. Jong, 
scarious with green midvein. Inflorescences axillary, androgynous, 
consisting of an ebracteate cluster of numerous male flowers (often 
about 15) in the axil of one stipule and a bracteate cyme of a few 
(3 or more) female flowers in the axil of the other stipule, or sometimes 
female only ; bracts much shorter than the flower. Male flowers 
shortly stalked, perianth after expulsion of the anther boat-shaped 
with a green setose acuminate apex, including the stalk about 1 lin. 
long. Ovary naked, ovoid, densely hispidulous; stigma linear, 
recurved, barely half the length of the ovary. Achene greenish- 
brown, ovoid with one edge slightly narrowly flattened, acute, tippe 
with the remains of the style, about 1 lin. long, hispidulous.—Dudy- 
modora acuminata, Wedd. Monogr. Urtic. 549. D. cuneata, We 
in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 235°. Droguetia umbricola, Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 
C.164. Partetaria cuneata, E. Meyer ms. ex Wedd. in Ann. Sci. Nat. 
l.c, (quoted in synonymy). 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Eldama Ravine, 7000-7500 ft., Whyte 
eervapag tery ted German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Marangu, 4 ’ 
Also in South Africa. 
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