Fleurya.} cxxiim. urticace.e (Rendle). 249 



blade ; stipules joined to about the middle, free limb linear-subulate, 

 ciliolate, about J in. long. Inflorescences narrow, generally longer 

 than the leaves, bearing sessile clusters at intervals on the long 

 slender stalk or its few short branches, clusters bisexual, male flowers 

 few, soon falling. Male perianth 4-partite, segments hispid on the 

 outside, " whitish or rosy with a median green nerve '' [Weddrl/]. 

 Female perianth 4-partite, the anterior segment smaller than the 

 other three, the lateral pair becoming ultimately largest, margin 

 minutely ciliolate, the upper keeled and passing into the short 

 dilated joint of the pedicel ; stigma about half the length of the 

 ovary, obscurely branched at the base. Achene deflexed, pale brown, 

 compressed, ovate, narrowly winged, the median area depressed and 

 more or less minutely warted, about J lin. long.--Wedd. Monogr. 

 Urtic. 115, t. 1 A, fig. 9, and in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 74 ; Wight, Ic. t. 

 1975 ; Schlechter, Westafr. Kautschuk-Exped. 286. Urtica hUer- 

 rupta, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 985. U. lo7natocarpa, Hochst. ex Steud. in 

 Flora, 1850, 260 ; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 261. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia : Mai-Mezano, Schimper, 1471 ! Hamedo, 4700 ft., 

 and near Bellitschen, 4000 ft,, Schimper, 88 ! British East Africa : Nyikn 

 country ; Wakefield ! 



Lower Guinea. Belgian Congo : near Leopoldville, Schlechter, 12537. 



5. F. capensis, Wedd. Monogr. Urtic. 117, t. 1 A, figs. 7, 8, but n^t 

 in Ann. Sci. Nat. 4we ser. i. 183. Monoecious or dioecious. Stems 

 erect from a slender creeping rhizome about 1 lin. thick, 1-3 ft. high, 

 slender with the habit of F. interrwpta, with a few stinging hairs, 

 pubescent in the younger portions. Leaves with long slender petioles, 

 very similar to those of F. interrupta, margin serrate, teeth broad, 

 acute or subacute, hairs and cystoliths as in F. interrupta ; petiole 

 generally rather shorter than the blade ; stipules as in F. interrupta. 

 Inflorescences unisexual : male generally longer than the petiole, 

 generally forked twice or thrice and bearing small round heads of 

 subsessile flowers on the short branchlets ; flower-bud globular- 

 depressed, about If lin. in diam. ; perianth-segments 5, pale-coloured 

 with a greenish central line, passing into a blunt keel beneath the 

 apex, sparsely hairy or glabrate. Female in few-flowered sessile 

 clusters at intervals on a slender peduncle or its few branches, the 

 inflorescence sometimes shorter, sometimes longer than the petiole ; 

 perianth 4-partite, the dorsal segment ultimately about half the 

 length of the lateral pair, keeled, the keel passing into the short 

 dilated joint of the pedicel, lateral segments about half the length of 

 the achene, anterior segment very small, margin of segments minutely 

 glandular-ciliate ; stigma simple, ovate-lanceolate, Achene broadly 

 ovate, about f lin. long, smooth, not winged, crowned with the long 

 persistent recurving stigma (about two-thirds the length of the 

 achene). — Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xl. 206; Wood, Natal 

 PI. vi. t. 577. F. mitis, Wedd. in Ann. Sci. Nat. I.e. (name). 



