Fkurija.'] ukticace.e (Brown), 547 



P/?. Docimente, 127, 143. U. pedimcutaris, E. Meyer, Le. 143. U. 

 miiis, Hochst.y and U, omllfolia, Bacldnq. ex RochsL in Flora, 1845, 

 88 and in Krauss, Beitr, FL Cap- und Natal 151. 



Coast Rkgion: Kiiysna Div. ; in the forest at Knysna, BmrhcU, AoUl Krau.^f^, 



182S, 1829 ! Uitenhage Div. ; neir Sanrlfontein and ^Litjesfontein, Dreje ! Galge- 



bosch, Dreffel Port Elizabeth T>i\\ ; Krakakamma, Zejflicr, 566! Albany Div., 



Cooper, 3590! King Williamstown Div. ; by the Yellowwood Eiver, BregeX 



Central Rkgiox: Somerset Div.; on the Bosch Ber^, BnrchelL 3231! 

 Bolm^ 310. * 



Kalahari Regiox : Transvaal ; Rimers Creek, near Barberton, Gal-pin, 12S9 ! 



Eastern Rkgion: Transkei, Kentani, .Ifm Fegler, 696! Griqiialand East; by 

 the Uiiizimkulu River, Tijson, 2792 ! ami in MacOwaji 6c Bolus Ilerh. Norm, 76S ! 

 Natal; by the Umlaas River, Kraim, 30! near Durban^ Rehmann^ 8808! 

 Gueinzitis] Gerrard, 277! Inanda, Wood^ 716! 1251 ! 



_3. Y. alatipes (N. E. Er.) ; a herb, 1-3 ft. high, armed with 

 stinging hairs on all parts, unisexual or both sexes on the same 

 plant ; stem furrowed when dried, minutely puberulous with de- 

 flexed hairs under the stinging hairs at the apex only ; leaves 

 alternate, glabrous on both sides except for the stinging hairs ; 

 petioles mostly 2-2 J in. lung^ those of the two terminal leaves much 

 shorter; blade 3-7 in. long, lf-4J in. broadj ovate, acute or acu- 

 minate, round or notched at the 3-nerved base, acutely toothed on 

 the margin; teeth triangular, ~^— 1^ lin. long, 1^-2 lin. broad, each 

 tipped with a stinging hair ; cymes or panicles solitary in the axils 

 of the upper leaves, including the peduncle l|-4 in. long, 1-2 J in. 

 broad, erect or ascending, branching, those of the male plant much 

 more slender than those of the female ; pedicels of the male flowers 

 ^1 lin. long, slender, jointed just below the flower ; pedicels of the 

 female flowers at first about J lin. long, becoming in fruit 1;^2 lin. 

 ^^^^Sj i"!^ hn. broad, very broadly winged, cuneately obcordate, 

 "with a deflexed flower at the notch, arranged in small compact 

 cymules on the branches of the cyme or panicle ; perianth of the 

 male flow^ers of 4 equal concave ovate acute segments f—f lin. long, 

 glabrous ; perianth of the female flowers of 4 very unequal segments, 

 the upper concave or boat-shaped, and the lower flattened lanceo- 

 |ate segments rudimentary and about ^ lin, long, ciliate, the lateral 

 in flower scarcely | lin. long, broadly ovate, acute, becoming in 

 fruit 1-1 J lin. long ctnd falcate in outline, deflexed, submembranous, 

 green; achene abruptly deflexed, oblique and very broadly D-shaped, - 

 compressed, 1^ hn. in diam., pitted rugulose, glabrous, light brown, 

 with a very dark brown border ; stigma ^-f lin. long, stout, densely 

 stigmatose-hairy, orange, in fruit abruptly bent back to the margin 

 of the achene. Laportea aJatipeSj Rook. /. in Joiirn, Linn. Soc. 

 vii. 215; Rendle in Prain, FL Trap, Afr. vi, ii. 252. 



KALAHARr Region : Transvaal ; forest on the Zoutpansber^^ Range, Worsdell ! 



Easterx Region : Griqaaland East; Zuerberg Range, Ti/son, 17721 Natal; 

 in^ woods or bush at Enon and near Byrne, Wood, 1880! in bush near York, 

 Wood I and without precise localicy, Cooper, 1123! 



Alrio in Troincal Africa. 



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