990 cxvi. URTiCACE^. [Fleurya 



rather obtusely pointed at both ends, glabrous, i in. long, yV in. 

 broad ; fruiting perianth -^^ in. long, unequally 4 -partite ; the 

 segments oval ; seed -^^ in. long ; embryo yV in. long ; fruiting 

 pedicels very slender, J to t} in. long. 



GolunCtO Alto. — In damp places by streams, abundant, flowering 

 in November and February ; at the river Cuango, fl. Feb. 1855. Xos. 

 6266, 6296. In especially shady places at the rivulets of Mata de 

 Quisuculo ; fl. and unripe f r. 28 April, 1856. No. 6265. 



"When the flowers explode they produce, by means of an electric 

 discharge, a sense of burning when touched by the hand (Welw. ms.). 

 I have not seen the female flowers. The fibre of the plant is slender 

 and tenacious. 



This plant should be compared with the var. amphicarpa Engl. 

 Pfl. Ost.-Afr. C, p. 163 (1895), a specimen of which variety I have not 

 seen, but which is given by Engler, Z.c, as occurring in the Angola 

 and Lower Congo district. No. 6296 in Herb. Kew. is Girardinia 

 adoensis Wedd. 



4. GIEARDINIA Gaudich.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 384. 



1. G. adoensis Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, i. p. 181 (1854). 



Urtica adoensis Hochst. in PL Schimp. Abyss, i. n. 101 [U. i., 

 1840) ; Steud. in Flora xxxiii. p. 259 (1850) ; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, 

 ii. p. 262 (1851). Girardinia sp., Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 

 3, xviii. p. 203 in note (1852). G. conde7isata Wedd. Monogr. 

 Urtic. p. 169, t. 2, fig. b (1856), partly; and in DC. Prodr. 

 xvi. 1. p. 103 (1869), partly. 



HuiLLA. — A stinging herb, 3 to 4 ft. high, sparingly branched. In 

 shady places by streams near Monino, at the base of the Morro ; fl. 

 and fr. Jan. 1860. No. 6289. 



No. 6296 in Herb. Kew. (not that No. in the study set), is this 

 species. The same plant was collected by Capello, n. 92, in Feb. 1878, 

 on the way from Caconda to Bihe in Angola, and there it is rather 

 common ; the native name is " Lunhi. " 



5. ADICEA Rafin. Analyse de la Nature, p. 179 (1815). 



Pilea Lindl. Collect, t. 4 (1821); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. 

 iii. p. 384. 



1. A. tetraphylla 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. p. 623 (1891). 



Urtica sp., PI. Schimp. Abyss, i. n. 74 {U. i., 1840). U. 

 quadrifolia Hochst. in PI. Schimp. Abyss, iii. n. 1680 {U. i., 

 1844). U. tetra2)hylla Steud, in Flora xxxiii. p. 260 (1850). 

 Pilea quadrifolia A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, ii. p. 263 (1851); Wedd. 

 Monogr. Urtic. p. 199, t. 7, fig. 4-10 (1856) ; Hook. f. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. vii. p. 216 (1864). P. tetraphylla Blume Mus. Bot. 

 Lugd.-Bat. ii. p. 50 (1856); Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. 1, p. 136 

 (1869). 



Var. angolensis. 



A slender, erect, intensely green, annual herblet, 4 to 6 in. 

 high, with the habit altogether of an Urtica, somewhat rigid in the 

 living state, but quickly becoming quite limp, glabrous and unarmed 

 in most parts but sometimes with a few straight rigid long seta3 



