TIrera.] ukticace^ (Brown). 549 



slightly oblique; stigma terminal, oblique, consisting of a dense fcuft 

 of short hairs, yellowish or whitish ; achenes about § lin. long, com- 

 pressed, ovate, slightly oblique, slightly tuberculate on the sides, 

 pale brown. N, E, Br. in Kew JBuUcfin, 1888, 84, icith plate ; Burit- 

 Davy in Kew Bulletin^ 1908, 175, and in Transv. Agric. Joimi. v. 433, 



Coast Region : Queeustown Div, ; Zwartkei Valley, 3000 ft., Galpin, 8175 ! 



Kalahari Region : Transvaal ; Umvoti Creek, near Barberton, Galpin, 1001 ! 

 Waterval Onder, Bogei^s, 2606 ! Kloofs of the Magaliesberg Range and Crocodile 

 and xAIagalies RiverSj Burtt-Dary, 195 ! Miss Nation, 210 ! 



Eastkrn Region : Natal; Inanda, Wood, 3S37 ! Dumissa, Rudatis, 1069! 



The bark of this plant affords a valuable fibre^ of which an account is given in 

 the Kew Bulletin for 1SS8 as above quoted. 



2, U. Woodii (K E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 96); a shrub, 

 only armed with a few stinging hairs on the petioles, the base of 

 the midrib and nerves of the leaves and sometimes on the cymes; 

 branches unarmed, glabrous, smooth ; leaves alternate, glabrous ; 

 petioles |-1 in. long; blades 21-3^ in. long, 1|-2J in. broad, 

 elliptic, abruptly acuminate into a subobtuse point ^-2 in. long, 

 obtuse, broadly rounded, or slightly subcordate at the 3-nerved 

 base, entire and apparently subcoriaceous, paler beneath ; stipules 

 connate into a tapering 2-keeled bifid body 4-5 lin. long, wdth 2 free 

 subulate points at the apex, glabrous, brown, deciduous ; cymes or 

 panicles 1-3 in. long, axillary, unisexual and the sexes on different 

 plants ; male flowers on pedicels ^-'^ lin. long, jointed close under 

 the flower ; perianth equally 4-Iobed to rather more than half-way 

 down, I lin. long, glabrous; lobes ovate, very obtuse and minutely 

 fringed or toothed at the apex, concave ; stamens 4, longer than the 

 perianth ; female flowers with an unequally 4-crenate or 4-lobed 

 shortly tubular or cup-shaped perianth -^ lin. long, with the 

 lobules very minutely denticulate or fringed, glabrous ; ovary com- 

 pressed-ovoid, slightly longer than the perianth ; stigma sessile, 

 oblique, large, hemispheric, densely papillate-pubescent ; achenes 

 not seen, 



Eastrrx Kkgion ; Pondoland ; in a cutting to the lighthouse near Port St. 

 John, Miss i\'jhr^ 1533! Natal; Umzinyati Fall,-^, Wood, 1803! and without 

 precit^e locality," >S''an'ic?-5o», 594 I 



I think it probable that Elatodcmrna trincrve, Hochst. in Florn^ 1845, 88, and 

 in Krauss, Beitr, FL Cap- and Natal, 151, is the same as this plant, but I have 

 seen no specimen of it^ nor does Weddell appear to have done so. It was collected 

 the Uuilaas River in Natal, Krauss, 1267. 



IV. PILEA, Lindl. 



Flowers unisexual, the sexes interuungled on the same plant, or 

 separate and on different plants. Perianth 2-4-partite ; segments 

 equal or unequal; concave, with a gibbosity or obtuse subulate point 

 on the back just below the apex on one or more of them. Stamens 



