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554 URTiCACE.f: (Brown). [Aitstralina. 



3. A. capensis (Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 4"^^ sor. i. 212); an 



annual herb 4-10 in. high, much branched at the base, with weak 

 slender flaccid thinly pubescent or subglabrous stems and branches 

 •J— I lin. thick, drying green; leaves alternate; petioles 1-12 lin. 

 long; blades 2i-9 lin. long, 2-9 lin. broad, ovate or subtriangular- 

 ovate, obtuse or rarely acute, very broadly cuneate at the base, 

 entire or with 3-5 faint or distinct crenations or teeth on each side, 

 glabrous or with a few hairs on both surfaces ; stipules |-1 Hn. 

 long, broadly ovate, acute, membranous ; flowers in small axillary 

 clusters, several male surrounding 1-2 female ; perianth of the 

 male flowers, 1 lin. long, shortly tubular below, open above and 

 obtusely angular on each side of the very obtuse mucronate apex, 

 pubescent ; female flower compressed -ovoid, | lin. long, pubescent ; 

 stigma \ lin. long, filiform, curved; achene § lin. long, ovoid, sub- 

 aouminate, keeled on one side, dark brown. A. ivtegrifoUa, Wedd. 

 in Ann, Sc. Nat, i'""' ser. i. 212. Didjimotoxa dehilis, E. Meyer hi 

 Drege Ztvei Ffi. Documente, 90 and 113. Dhhjmotoca dehilis, i'. 

 Meypr, Lc. 178, letters a and h only, Didyntodoxa dehilis^ Wedd. 

 Monogr, Urtic, 548, t. 20, B, and in DC, Prodr. xvi. i. 235*^^ B- 

 intirfvifoUa^ Wedd, Monogr. JJrtic. 549, and in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 

 235*^^ Jlrtica capensis as to one of the sheets marl:ed "a" in Jlerh, 

 Thnnh., not as to Linn, /., nor of 'Thunh. FI. Cap, ; see N. E, Br, in 

 Keiv Bnlhtin^ 1913, 80. Parictaria lanceolata, E, Meyer, a, 

 Drege, Ztvei Pji. Bocnmente, 109, not of Thunh. 



South Africa : Avithout locality, Thunhevfj ! 



Coast Rkgtox : Clamvilliam Div. ; Lange Vdllei, Drege i ^lalnie.sbury Div. ; 

 between Groene Kloof and Saldanha Bay, Dtege 1 



Wkstkrn Regiox : Little Namafiualand ; between Koper Berg and Kookfontein, 

 Ih-ejc, 8247 ! 



4. A. Thunbergil (N.E. Er.) ; an erect annual herb 1-1^ ft. high, 

 drying blackish; main stems §-1 lin. thick, luiuutely puberulous; 

 loaves alternate ; petioles 1-5 lin. long ; blades ^-| in. long, 2-7 

 lin. broad, ovate, acute or obtuse, cuneate at the base, entire or with 

 3-4 slight crenations on each side, thinly puberulous or nearly 

 glabrous ; stipules |-1 lin. long, very broadly ovate, acute or shortly 

 mucronate, ciliate, membranous ; perianth of the male flowers 5-4- 

 lin. long, very obtuse, with or without a very short point; female 

 flowers |-^- lin. long ; stigma scarcely ^ lin. long, liliform. Vriica 

 capensis, Thunh, Prodr. 31, Fl Cap. ed. Schnltes, 155, and as to sheet 

 p of Herb. Thunherg; see N. E. Br. in Kew BidhUn, 1913, 80. 



South Africa: without locality, Thunhcrgl Drege \ 



Drcge*s specimen was distributtd as ''Parietarla laneeolata, Th. ? cc/* but this 

 *'cc" specimen is not mentioned in Drege, Zwel Pji. Documente, nor is it anywhere 

 quoted by Weddell, although he has written the name '^Aifstralina capejisis" 

 upon the sheet, so that he evidently regarded it aa a form of that hpecies. I t^"^b 

 however, that it is most certainly distinct from the plant upon which Weddell 

 based the name A. capenmSj although in reality it is this species that should rightly 

 bear tluit name. Diege's specimeu exactly agrees with that on sheet ^ of Vrti>a 

 capensis in Thunberg's Herbarium, which, as I have pointed out in the Ke^v 

 Bulletin, is evidently the specimen from which he made his desciiption and not 

 from either of the sheets marked '*a." 



