Drogitetia.'] urticace.^ (Brown). 559 



glabrous beneath, but sometimes also pubescent beneath even on the 

 same branch ; stipules i-1 lin. long, broadly ovate, inucronate, 

 membranous, glabrous ; involucres in each axil sometimes 1 or a 

 pair of tubular flask-shaped female only, 4-toothed at the ape 

 sometimes also with a campanulate 6-8-lobed bisexual one mingled 

 with them, f-1^ lin. long, glabrous or minutely puberulous with 

 curved bail's outside, Avoolly within; male flowers in the bisexual 

 involucre 4-8^ surrounding 1 female; perianth obliquely funnel- 

 sTiaped or campanulate at the upper part and apparently 3-lobed and 

 open down one side, very thin and membranous ; female flowers 



solitary in both the female and bisexual involucres ; stigma |— 1 lin. 



long ; achene about 1 lin. long, compressed-ovoid, with a keel along 

 one margin, slightly rugose, glabrous, blackish. TJrtica capensh as 

 to one of the sheets marked '^ Uy^' and U. caffra sheet ^^a" in Herb. 

 IVuuihcrg, hut not as to description in FL Cap, ed, SchdteSy 155. 



SouTU Africa : without locality, Thunlerg ! 



Coast Region : Swelkiulam Div. ; in tlie forest at Grootvaders Bosch, 

 Barchell, 7232 ! 



As I have stated in the Ktw Bulletin, (I.e.), Thiniberg's Herbarium contains 

 two specimens oi tliis plant resi^ectively named Urtica capens'is and U. caffra, but 

 that these specimens can in no way have been used by Tiivuiberg when making 

 his descriptions of those two species. Possibh' Parktaria capen-^is, Thunb. Prodr. 

 31, and Fl. Cap, ed. Schultes, 155, may belong here, but I have not seen 

 Thunberg's type. 



2. D. urticsefolia (Wecld. in DC, Prodr. xvi. i. 235^^, excluding 



all synonyms except of E. 3Ieyer) ; an erect herb, apparently 1^- ft. 

 or more high ; stems obtusely 4-angled, grooA'ed down each face, 

 more or less pubescent or scabrous; leaves opposite; petiole 1-10 

 lin, long; blade 4-18 lin, long, 3-12 lin. broad, ovate or somewhat 

 rhomboid-elliptic, acute or subobtuse, broadly cuneate at the base 

 and with 4-6 obtuse teeth on each margin, and the terminal tooth 

 not longer than broad, glabrous or pubescent on one or both sides; 

 green above and beneath ; stipules |-1 lin. long, ovate or lanceo- 

 late, mucronate, spreading or reflexed, membi-anous, ciliate and 

 pubescent, green : involucres sometimes solitary in each axil and 

 female, but more usually a pair and bisexual, or sometimes bisexual 

 and female in the same axil, puberulous with hooked hairs ; bi- 

 sexual involucre about U lin. in diam., broadly cup-shaped or hemi- 

 spheric, G-8-toothed, amf the teeth with their mucronate points less 

 than I lin. long, shorter than the flowers, green, puberulous, con- 

 taining 4-8 male surrounding 2 female flowers; female involucre 

 ovoid or flask-shaped, minutely toothed at the contracted mouth, 

 puberulous, containing 1 female flower; perianth of the male 

 flowers bract-like, entire, concave, ovate-lanceolate, shortly mucro- 

 ate-acute, much lon;:er than the involucre, puberulous on the back 



with hooked hairs, eiliate ; stigma curved or coiled in a spiral; 

 achenes about | lin. long, slightly oblique, ivith a stout keel along 

 one niargiu, slightly rugose, glabrous, brown, D. urticoides, Wedd. 





