248 cxxiiiD. uRTiCACEiE (Rendle). [Fleurya. 



with internodes | in. to 2 in. long, densely hispidulous, with longer, 

 often deflexed stinging hairs intermixed. Leaves shortly stalked, 

 elliptic to elliptic-ovate, acute, base subcordate, margin closely 

 serrate-dentate, the tooth ending in a stinging hair, 2J-3J in. long, 

 lJ-2 in. wide, bearing hairs similar to those of stem and petiole 

 sparsely on the upper face, more densely beneath especially on the 

 nerves, 3-nerved below, with 3-4 ascending lateral nerves on each 

 side above ; petiole J-1 in. long ; stipules narrowly lanceolate, about 

 3-5 lin. long. Male flowers in axillary panicles which are longer 

 than the petioles ; flowers clustered in glomerules on the short lateral 

 branches of the first or second degree ; pedicels about J in. long. 

 Perianth 4-partite, segments densely hispidulous on the back, a little 

 over J lin. long. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Buea, 3000-8000 ft., Preuss, 916 ! Deistel, 

 388. 



Var. glahrata, Rendle in Joum. Bot. 1917, ined. A glabrate form, bearing 

 only the longer deflexed stinging hairs, but lacking the characteristic his])id 

 indumentum of the species except on the inflorescence and male flowers. 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Marangu, at 8700 ft., 

 Volkens, 980 ! 



3. F. lanceolata, Engl. Glied. Veg. Usambara, 37, and Pfl. Ost- 

 Afr. C. 163. A dioecious herb ; stem tall, erect, 2J ft. high, 2 lin. 

 thick at the base, sparsely clothed with short stinging hairs. 

 Leaves membranous, ovate-lanceolate, apex acuminate, base sub- 

 acute to obtuse, margin coarsely serrate-dentate, 6-7J in. long, 

 2-3 in. wide, bearing a few appressed stinging hairs, especially on the 

 nerves beneath ; petiole much shorter than the leaf, l|-3 in. long, 

 liairy like the stem. Inflorescences : male in short cymes, flower- 

 buds depressed-globose ; female on the short branches of lax axillary 

 panicles, which are shorter or longer than the petiole. Female 

 perianth 4-partite, the lateral segments ovate, much larger than the 

 antero-posterior, and enveloping the young fruit ; stigma lanceolate, 

 as long as the ovary. Achene very small, obliquely broadly ovoid, 

 acute, with a broad central pit on each side, J lin. long. 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Usambara ; Masheua, Hoist, 8833 ! 

 North East Uluguru ; near Mbore, at 3000 ft., Stuhlmann, 9012 ; Central Ulu- 

 guru, 7000 ft., Stuhlmann, 9223. 



4. F. interrupta, Gaud, in Freyc. Voy. Bot. 497. Stem erect, 8 in. 

 to 3 ft. high, slender, about 1 lin. or less thick, scarcely branched, 

 with a few stinging hairs or almost glabrous. Leaves with long 

 slender petioles, membranous, ovate, acuminate, base broadly 

 obtuse to somewhat truncate, margin rather broadly serrate, or 

 crenate-serrate, 1J-3J in. long, 1-2 in. wide, with a few^ stiffish ap- 

 pressed hairs on both faces especially on the veins beneath, and 

 numerous short linear cystoliths on the lower face ; petiole of varying 

 lengths, sometimes rather shorter, sometimes longer than the leaf- 



