Fleurya.] cxxiiid. urticace.^ (Rendle). 247 



segments, often with a few short stiffish hairs on the back below the 

 apex, or one or more longer hairs, which are sometimes gland-tipped ; 

 open flower about IJ lin. across. Female perianth deeply divided 

 into 4 segments, 2 larger broadly ovate and nearly equal in length to 

 the ovary with an alternating inconspicuous pair ; stigma short, 

 simple. Achene deflcxed, brown, ovate to pyriform, central area 

 depressed, with a few confluent tubercles, | to barely 1 lin. long ; 

 stalk slightly dilated above the articulation. — Wedd. Monogr. Uri ir. 

 112, and in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 71 (vars. Jinn(rMna and filaridutosa) : 

 Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 150 ; Henriques in Bolet. 8oc. Brot. 

 X. 162 ; Engl. Glied. Veg. Usambara, 55, and Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 163 ; 

 Durand & Schinz, :^tudes Fl. Congo, 250 ; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. 

 Boiss. iv. App. ii. 145 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 988 ; De 

 Wild, fitudes Fl. Katanga, 29, and Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moy en-Congo, 

 ii. 37, t. 29 ; Thonner, Blutenpfl. Afr. t. 32 ; Almagia in Ann. 

 Istit. Bot. Eoma, viii. 118 ; R. E. Fries, Rhod.-Kongo Exped. i. 18. 

 F. cordata, Gaud, in Freyc. Voy. Bot. 497, and in Voy. Bonite, t. 83 ; 

 Wedd. Monogr. Urtic. 110, t. 1 A, figs. 4-6. F. (fJandulosa, Wedd. in 

 Ann. Sci. Nat. 3me ser. xviii. 205. F. spp. nos. 2 & 3, Benth. in Hook. 

 Niger Fl. 517. Urtica cestuans, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. ii. 1397. U. sclmn- 

 periana, Hochst. ex Steud. in Flora, 1850, 259 ; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. 

 Abyss, ii. 261. 



XTpper Ckiinea. Sierra Leone : Bafodeya, Scott Elliot, 5507 ! Liberia : 

 Sinoe Basin, Whyte ! Gold Coast : Aburi, Brown, 413 ! Ashanti : Tedlie ! 

 Togo: near Lome, Warneckc, 200! Northern Nigeria : Lokoja, 2>a?-jV/, ITA) ! 

 Ilorin ; Aguji, Thornton ! Mount Patteh, Vogel, 193 ! Confluence, Barter ! 

 Southern Nigeria: Lagos; Ogun River, Millen, 130! Aguku, Thomm, 913! 

 Awka, Thomas, 668 ! Oban, Talbot, 632 ! Old Calabar, Rohh ! HolUmd, 40 ! 

 Cameroons : Batanga, Bates, 34 ! Bipinde, Zenker, 872 ! Yaunde, Zenker d? 

 Staudt, 510 ! Staudt, 914 ! 



Nile Land. Eritrea : Ailet, Schweinf urth db Riva, 475 ! Lawa- Valley, 

 4000 ft., Schweinfurth d: Riva, 16(51 ; Assaorta ; Ambatocam, 2000 ft., Pnppi, 

 4019, 4055 ; Oculc Cusai ; Moga at 4000 ft., Pappi, 4159 ; Damas, Pappi, 4117; 

 Monte Idet, Te.rracciano d: Pappi, 31 ; Adeita-Cualo, at O.^O ft., Pappi, 3011; 

 Dalae, Ehrenberg, 43! Abyssinia: Modat, ScJiimper, 1739! and without 

 precise locality, iScAim^jer, 1726 ! Bongo: Gir, Schweinf urth, 2499 \ Uganda: 

 Kipayo, 4000 ft., Diimmer, 068 ! Lake Albert Edward : Kasindi, Fries, 1894 ; 

 Madi Woods, Speke ds Grant ! British East Africa : Kui, Kacssner, 070 ! Kib- 

 wezi, Scheffler, 123 ! Mombasa, Hildehraiidt, 2040 ! 



Lower Guinea. St. Thomas Island, Don ; Moller d: Quintas. Gaboon : 

 Tedlie ! Angola : Golungo Alto ; bank of River Coango, Welwiisch, (526 1 ! 

 Ambriz ; Maladi, Monttiro ! Cazengo ; Granja de S. Luiz, Gossweiler, 4568 ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo: Msuata, B'uttner ; Bangala, Hem, 131 I 

 Katanga ; Mulenga, Kaessner, 2632 ! Lukafu, Verdick, 379 ; Monbuttu ; 

 Munza, Schweinf urth, 3420 ! 



Mozamb. Distr. Nyasaland : Nvika Plateau, McClounie, 93! Zomba 

 Rock, Whyte \ Songue and Karonga, 1700-2000 ft., Whyte \ Kondowe to 

 Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte\ Lower Milanji, Scott \ and without ju-eciso 

 locality, Buchanan, 345 ! Portuguese East Africa : Zambesi ; below Shigogo, 

 Kirk ! Boruma, Menyhorth, 574 ! 



2. F. urticoides, Enql. in E?u/l. Jahrb. xxxiii. 122. Dioecious ; stem 

 erect from an ascending base, 3-5J ft. high, somewhat angular and 



