224 TILIACEZ (Harv.) [Grewia. 
or lobed, crenate or serrate, palmately nerved. Stipules lateral, small, persistent. 
Flowers in terminal umbels, white. Named in honour of Dr. Andrew Sparmann, 4 
Swede, who travelled in S. Africa and afterwards accompanied Captain Cook in his 
second voyage. : 
1. §. Africana (Linn. f. Sup. p. 265); arborescent; branches terete, 
patently hairy; leaves on long petioles, cordate-acuminate 5-7-angled, 
unequally toothed, softly hairy on both sides, 7-9-ribbed. below ; stipules 
subulate; peduncles elongate, many-flowered ; invol, bracts subulate, 
acute; sepals white, membranous, lanceolate; petals obovate ; barren 
filaments numerous; capsules sub-globose, 5-celled. DC. Prod. 1. p. 503. 
Vent. Malm.t.78. Bot. Mag.t.726. E.& Z.! No. 411. Thunb. Cap. 
- 432. : 
s Has. In moist woods, district of George, 2.4 Z./ Drege! &c. Cult, in England. 
(Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
A quick-growing arborescent shrub, 10-20 feet high, with spongy wood and half 
herbaceous branches, the whole plant thickly covered with long, soft, spreading hairs. 
Leaves 5-6 inches long, and 3-4 broad, pale green. Flowers conspicuous ; the 
sepals and petals white ; the barren filaments yellow, with a purple tip ; the fertile 
ones purple. 
2. S. palmata (E. Mey. in Herb. Drege); shrubby; the branches 
terete, virgate, stellato-pubescent ; leaves on long petioles, deeply-5-7- 
lobed, the lobes much acuminated, inciso-sinuate, and unequally-toothed, 
minutely stellato-pubescent on both sides, prominently 5-7-nerved below ; 
stipules subulate, deciduous ; peduncles sub-terminal, elongate, densely 
_ 12 or more-flowered ; invol. bracts subulate, acute; sepals linear-oblong, 
coriaceous, purplish within; petals narrow-obovate; barren filaments 
few ; capsules elliptic-oblong, 4-celled. Urena ricinocarpa, E. & Z.! 
gor. 
Has. Between the Omtata and Omsamwubo, 1000-2000 f. Drege/ Sources of the 
Kat River and Makasana River, #. &. Z./_ (Herb. Sond.) 
A virgate shrub, with soft, spongy wood and half herbaceous branches, much 
smaller in all parts than S. Africana; with smaller and more densely clustered, 
purplish flowers ; deeply parted leaves and 4-celled capsules. It is closely allied to 
S. Abyssinica, but differs-in pubescence, and in the shape and section of the leaves. 
The hairs, in S. Abyssinica, are long, simple, patent and soft, and the leaf-lobes are 
more acuminate, and less pinnatifid. = 
