FLORA NIGRITIANA. 519 
glomerulum bracteantes. Flores in glomerulos petiolo bre- 
viores arcte conferti, exteriores 6-10 masculi bracteolis mini- 
mis subtensi et breviter pedicellati ; interiores nune 2-3, nune 
12-15, arcte sessiles, singuli bractea subfoliacea orbiculato- 
reniformi concava hispida bistipellata subtensi. Ovarium 
perianthio subclauso minute  bidentato extus hispido arcte 
inclusum. Stigma exsertum, elongatum, hinc longiuseule 
plumoso-villosum. Fructus perianthio persistenti aucto adna- 
tus, ovato-compressus, hispidus, lineam longus, angulis 8 
acutis at non in alas productis, faciebus convexis 5-cos- 
tatis. 
This plant belongs to Bennett second section, to which 
he proposes that the name of Pouzolsia should more espe- 
cially apply. Turezaninow’s genus Gonostegia belongs to 
Bennett’s first section, for which the latter botanist adopts 
Hamilton’s name of Memorialis. 
The Haynea ovalifolia, Schum. et Thonn., from Guinea, which 
is unknown to me, is usually referred to Pilea; but the three 
styles described, render it a very doubtful plant till it has been 
re-examined. 
l. Beehmeria (Procris ?) rigida, Benth.; frutieosa, dioica, ramis 
aculeato-setosis, foliis alternis late ovatis obovatisve serratis 
basi obtusis glabris subtus albicantibus, cymis masculis axil- 
laribus laxe paniculatis folia sequantibus.— Urtica rigida, 
G. Don, Herb.—Sierra Leone, Don. á 
Specimen unicum masculum. Ramus crassus, glaber, setis 
crassis aculeiformibus echinatus. Folia breviter petiolata, 
- 8 poll. longa, 2-23 poll. lata, a basi ad apicem grosse serrata. 
Inflorescentia eadem ac in stirpibus masculis B. mice vel 
B. Puye, sed laxior. Flores pentameri, ovarii rudimento 
clavato. 
: Musanga Smithii, Br. in Horsf. Pl. Jav. Rar. p. 49.— 
Sierra Leone, Don. 
- Dicranostachys sp.?—A specimen is in Vogel’s collection, 
without any label, in leaf, with one young fruit ; the leaves 
are much broader than those described by Trécul in the 
original D, serrata, a Senegalese species. 
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MO 
