518 FLORA NIGRITIANA. 
two sepals flatly applied to the sides of the compressed ovary, 
with either one or two minute outer leaflets opposite to the 
edges of the ovary, which may be more correctly called bracts 
(as suggested by Henslow, whose Urera Gaudichaudiana is 
rather a Fleurya) than sepals. The fruit is generally ex- 
ceedingly oblique and bent down upon the rachis (or recep- 
tacle), whilst the style is bent back on the upper edge, some- 
times long and subulate, with a short stigmatic portion at its 
extremity, more frequently short, with a more or less elongated 
or subulate stigmatic tuft. In the F. ruderalis, the type, as it 
were, both of Fleurya and of Schychowskya, it is much less 
hooked and the fruit less oblique than in all other species I am 
acquainted with. Still it is very different from the style and 
stigmate of either Urtica or Urera, besides having the habit of 
the other Fleurye, To the three above species I have not 
given names or character; because I have not before me, at 
present, materials for extricating the synonymy and determining 
the limits of older species, to which they bear considerable 
relation, ifthey are not identical. The first is a very poor male 
specimen, very likely distinct from the S. African U. mitis, but 
affords no clue to separate it. The two others, as far as my 
specimens go, closely resemble the Brazilian ones, to which I 
have compared them, but haye most probably already received 
more than one name as S. American or as African plants. 
l. Pouzolsia Guineensis, Benth. ; pubescens, caule elongato ra- 
moso, foliis alternis petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis, glomerulis 
multifloris androgynis, floribus masculis exterioribus minute 
bracteatis, foemineis intra bracteas orbiculatas subreconditis, 
fructibus costatis exalatis.—Parietaria Guineensis, G. Dom 
Herb.—St. Thomas, Don ; Fernando Po, Vogel. 
Herba anmua videtur, caulibus pluripedalibus adscendentibus 
inter frutices subsarmentosis ; ramuli, presertim novelli, 
pilis brevibus pubescentes. Folia inferiora ovato-lanceolata, 
longiuscule acuminata, bipollicaria ; floralia breviora; summa 
ovata, semipollicaria ; omnia integerrima, trinervia, preser- 
tim ad margines setulis parvis pilosula. Stipule fusco-mem- 
branaceæ, acuminate, foliorum floralium pleræque basi late, 
