344: CX. URTICACER. 
face, sitting in the scarcely enlarged calyx.— Wedd. Urtic. p. 
LOS ts 1, Ales 
Annuals, mostly with stinging hairs. Leaves alternate, serrate, 3-nerved. 
—8 or 4 species, in Eastern district and Natal. 
Tripe 2. BoEHMERIED. (Gen. 3.) 
3. POUZOLSIA, Gaud. 
Flowers moneecious, in axillary or spiked glomerules; the 
male and female often mixed; bracts small, scarious.—Male: 
Calyx 3-5-parted ; segments ovate, shortly acuminate, dorsally 
convex, valvate in bud. Stamens 3-5. A rudimentary pistil.— 
Female: Calyx tubular, often ovate, nerved, with a narrowed, 
2-4-toothed orifice. Ovary enclosed, sessile, apiculate; ovule 
erect or ascending ; stigma filiform, deciduous, villous on one 
side. Achene similar to the ovary, enclosed in the calyx, 
shining.— Wedd. Urtic. p. 389, t. 13 B. 
Shrubs undershrubs or herbs, chiefly tropical, glabrous or pubescent. 
Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, equal- or unequal-sided, mostly entire, 
rarely toothed, 3-nerved, the lateral nerves branched, not reaching the apex 
of the leaf.—Urtica procridioides, E. M., is referred here by Weddell. 
There is also a second species from Natal. 
Tripe 3. ForskouLiem. (Gen. 4-6.) 
4. FORSKOHLEA, Linn. 
Flowers moneecious, the sexes mostly together within 3-6- 
parted, turbinate, axillary involucres, very woolly within ; 
rarely the female solitary in a 2-leaved mvolucre.—Male: 
Calyx monophyllous, narrow-tubular at base, dilated above, 
obtusely 3-toothed. Stamen 1. No rudimentary pistil— 
Female: Calyx 0. Ovary straight, ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, 
woolly, tapering into a filiform, villous-hispid stigma; ovule 
sometimes oblique. Achene straight, compressed, ovate, very 
densely woolly.— Wedd. Urtic. p. 532. t. 19 B. 
Herbs or undershrubs, armed with rigid, subpungent hairs. Leaves alter- 
nate, crenate or toothed, 3-nerved.—1 Cape species, F. candida, Linn., with 
coarsely serrate, rigid, ovate leaves, white beneath. 
5. DROGUETIA, Gaud. 
Flowers moncecious, both sexes within gamophyllous, bell- 
shaped or ventricose, axillary or racemose-spicate, few- or 
many-flowered involucres.—Male: Calyx narrow-tubular at 
base, woolly externally, dilated above, enclosing the solitary 
stamen in the bud, at length torn open. No rudimentary 
pistil—Female: Calyx 0. Ovary woolly or glabrous ; stigma 
