Obetia.] cxxiud. URTiCACEiE (Rendle). 245 



Nile Land. Uganda : Toro ; near Durro forest, 4000 ft., Bagshawe, 1080 ! 

 Busoga ; banks of Nile, SWO ft., Dawe, 88 ! British East Africa : near Amala, 

 5500lt.,i?ww5, 772 ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Kwiji Islands in Lake Kivu, Mildbraed ; 

 West of Lake Albert Edward, 4000 ft., Mildbraed, 1950. 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Mucunu Steppe, near Lake Victoria, 

 Conrads, 279 ! Muansa, Stuhlmann ; Kagehi, Fischer. 



2. 0. carruthersiana, Re^ndle. An arborescent shrub up to 13 ft. 

 high or a small tree 10 to 20 ft. in height with a stem as thick as a 

 man's leg and several branches sharply ascending from the base, or 

 often with a short trunk 5 in. in diam. ; branchlets ascending and 

 bearing towards the tips bright red leafy twigs 5 to 10 lin. thick ; 

 internodes up to 2 in. long below, 2\-b lin. long towards the apex, 

 rather closely beset with long 1-celled very sharp stinging hairs with 

 a bulb-like warted base. Leaves cordate or somewhat reniform, 

 sometimes partially lobed, margin coarsely serrate, teeth up to 5 lin. 

 broad, lateral nerves 4—5 on each side curving upwards, the basal 

 pair emitting 4-5 secondary nerves, up to 9 in. long and 6 in. wide, 

 bearing especially on the nerves and veins long scattered hairs, and 

 thinner shorter hairs, verrucose on upper face, densely reticulate 

 between the veins beneath ; petiole generally shorter than the leaf ; 

 stipules rather large, broadly lanceolate, pale brown, soon falling, 

 5 lin. long and IJ lin. wide. Inflorescences numerous, generally on 

 leafless branches, sometimes in the leaf-axils, equal in length to the 

 petiole, several times forked and passing into 1 -sided cymes, up to 

 3 in. long and 2f in. broad, bearing long scattered hairs and inter- 

 vening shorter hairs ; bracts at the base of the branchlets brown, 

 soon falling. Male flowers shortly stalked, about 1 lin. in diam. in 

 bud ; perianth deeply 5-partite ; segments elliptic, minutely hispidu- 

 lous with a few long hairs on the prpminent median nerve on the 

 back ; filaments a little longer than the perianth ; rudiment of pistil 

 very short, ending in a dense mass of short hairs. Female flowers : 

 lateral segments of perianth broadly elliptic-ovate, about J lin. long, 

 equal to the ovar}% posterior slightly smaller, the anterior much 

 smaller ; achene ovoid-orbicular, brown, J lin. long, minutely scrobi- 

 culate ; persistent membranous perianth 1 lin. long. — 0. au.stralis, 

 Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. li. 424, fig. 2. Urticastrum carruthersiatuim, 

 Hiem in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 987. Laportea carruthersiana, 

 K. Schum. in Just, Jahresber. xxviii. i. 463. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Golungo Alto ; Delaraboa, Welwitsch, ('»2G7 ! 

 Mount Kileba, Gossweiler, 1707 ! Huilla, Antunes, 241. Damaraland : (iaub. 

 Dinter da Engler ; near Otavi, Dinfer, li29 ; Otyirahinguc, Fi.scher ; near Oka- 

 hand j a, Dinter. 



3. FLEURYA, Gaud. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 382. 



Flowers monoecious or dioecious in cymose clusters arranged in 

 panicles or interrupted racemes or spikes. Male Howers : Perianth 



