540 URTIGACE.E (Brown). \Flenrya. 



in the male flo\vers ; perianth of the male flowers of 5 equal seg- 

 ments nearly 1 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, concave ; perianth- 

 seg]uents of the f- male flower 4, very unequal, 1 very small and 

 concave, outside the others, 1 rudimentaiy and very narrow or 

 tooth-like, 2 adpressed to the ovary or achene, J-f lin. long, broadly 

 ovate, acute, submembranous, edged with a row of very minute 

 sessile glands ; achene 1 lin. long, obliquely orbicular-ovate, com- 

 pressed, keeled, very faintly tuberculate on the flattened depressed 

 central area on each side, glabrous, brown, very minutely dotted 

 with darker brown; stigma \ lin, long, refle.xed and closely \ 

 pressed to the achene. Wedd, Monogr, tirfic. 119, /. 1, A, figs, 1- 

 and in DC, Prodr. xvi. i. 76. Urtica grossa, E. Meyer in Drege, 

 Zwei Pfl. Dociimenfe, 134-, 150. 



South Africa : without locality, Zeyher, 3865, ex Weddell. 



Coast Regiox: Uitenliage Div. ; on old trees, Zeyher^ 565! Zuurberg Range, 

 Dvege. 



Eastern Region : Poiicloland ; near the Umtata River and between there and 

 St. Johns River, Bregel Natal; Inanda, Wood, 1236! Fairfield, Eudatis, 1335 ! 

 and without precise lucalitv, McKen, 3 ! Gerrard, 710 ! 



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.2. F. mitis (AVedd. in Ann. Sc. Xat. 4^^ ser. i. 183); stems 

 herbaceous, 4-C ft. long, erect or scrambling or prostrate and 

 rooting at the nodes, branching, glabrous or puberulous, varying 



from nearly unarmed to thickly covered with stinging hairs; leaves 

 alternate, more or less armed with stinging hairs on the petioles 

 and veins on the under surface ; petiole ^-5 in. long ; blade 1-5 in, 

 long, 5~3i in. broad, ovate, acuminate, broadly rounded or occasion- 

 ally very broadly cuneate at the base, acutely toothed at the 

 margin, with teeth §-2 lin. long, and 1-3 lin. broad^ glabrous or 

 thinly pubescent on both surfaces ; peduncles solitary, axillary, 

 usually branched, rarely simple, with small dense globular clusters 

 of flowers scattered alonir or at the ends of the branches, shorter or 

 a little longer than the petioles, glabrous or puberulous, and with or 

 without stinging hairs, bearing all male or all female flowers, but 

 often both sexes occur upon the same stem ; male flowers sessile, 

 with 5 spreading equal segments nearly or quite 1 lin. long and 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute, concave ; female flowers on flattened and 

 narrowly winged pedicels ^ lin. long, armed with stinging hairs or 

 unarmed, with 4 unequal segments, erect and adpressed to the 

 ovary, the two larger lateral, i-| lin. long, flattish, very broadly 

 ovate, acute or subobtuse, the other two much smaller and one of 

 them concave ; all glabrous in both sexes, with or without stinging 

 hairs ; achene much longer than the perianth-segments, | lin. long, 

 compressed, obliquely orbicular-ovate, subacute, glabrous, slightly 

 tuberculate within a flat ovate area on each side, green or pale 

 brown; stigma ^—l lin. long, recurved. F, capensisy Wedd. 3Ionogr. 

 Urtic. 117, L 1, A,' figs. 7 d: 8, not of Ann. Sc. Nat 4'^ ser. I 183; 

 Wood, Natal PL vi. t. 577. F. peduncularis, Wedd, in DC. Prodr.^ 

 xvi. i. 75 {incL var. mitis). Urtica rnltis, E. Meyer in Drege^ Zwei 



