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544 UKTICACE^ (Brown). [Urtica, 



3. U. Burcliellii (N.E. Br.) ; root not seen ; herbaceous, ap- 

 parently 2 ft. or more high, armed with stinging hairs on all parts, 

 but very sparingly on the upper surface of the leaves and flower- 

 spikes ; leaves opposite ; petiole 1-4 in. long, slender, ^-| lin. thick ; 

 blade 2-5 in. long, H-4i in. broad, broadly ovate, acute, slightly 

 notched at the broadly-rounded base, coarsely toothed; teeth 2^-4 

 lin. long, deltoid, acute, entire ; upper surface glabrous or thinly 

 sprinkled with hairs; under surface pubescent with very fine spread- 

 ing hairs, besides the stings ; flower-spikes in pairs, axillaiy, much 

 shorter than the leaves, unbranched, unisexual or with male and 

 female flowers intermingled ; sepals of the male flowers |— f lin. long, 

 elliptic, obtuse, concave, all glabrous or one of thera with a stinging 

 hair on the back ; fruiting sepals of the female flowers very un- 

 equal, the larger 14-lf lin. long and nearly 1 lin. broad, elliptic, 

 obtuse, very scantily pubescent and armed with about 3 stingin" 

 hairs along the midrib on the back ; the smaller about |- lin. long, 

 oblong or ovate-oblong ; achenes 1 lin. long, ovate, brown, covered 

 with very minute dark red-brown slightly raised d<^tsj but scarcely 

 forming tubercles. 



Coast Region': Uiteiiliage Div. ; without precise locality, Zeyherl Eatliurst 

 Div. ; near Barville Park, Barchell, 4092 I 



or 



4- IT. lohulata (E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 48, 56, 

 58, 60, 68, andexBlume, Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 143); perennial, all 

 parts rather densely armed with stinging hairs j stems probably 2 ft. 

 or more high, herbaceous, 4-angled ; leaves opposite ; petiole 1-4^ in. 

 long; blade 2-8 in. long, 2-7 in. broad, broadly ovate or reniform- 

 ovate, acute or abruptly acuminate, more or less cordate at the 

 base, rather deeply lobed at the mai^gin, with the lobes 5-11 lin. 

 long and 3-5-toothed, or occasionally nearly or quite entire, the 

 terminal tooth being longer than the lateral teeth, both sides thickly 

 armed with stinging hairs, puberulous beneath and thinly pubescent 

 above or glabrous on both sides, minutely ciliate ; flower-spikes in 

 pairs in the axils of the leaves and much shorter than them, 

 branched, with male and female flowers intermingled or the upper 

 spikes female; sepals of the male flowers equal, |-1 lin. long, 

 elliptic-oblong, obtuse, two of them with a stinging hair on the 

 back, otherwise glabrous ; fruiting sepals of the female flowers very 

 unequal, the two larger 1-11 lin. long, ovate-oblong or elliptic. 



obtuse, nearly three times as long as the narrow lateral sepals and 

 enclosing the achene, armed and glabrous as in the male flowers ; 

 achenes nearly 1 lin. long, compressed, ovate, very minutely tuber- 

 culate, brown, shining. Wedd, Monogr. Urfic. 84. U, lohata, E. 

 Meyer ex Bhnne, Mus. Bot, Lugd.BaL ii. 144. Z7. Metjeri, Wedd, 

 Monogr. JJrtk. 64, and in DC, Prodr. xvi. i. 44. 



Coast Region- : Queenstown Div. ; Table Mountain, COOO-7000 ft., Drege. 



Westekn- RiiGlox '. Little Namaqualand ; near Lily Fontein, Brege ! 



Central Region : Graaff Reinet Div. : on the sides of Cave Slountain, near 



