250 cxxiiiD. URTICACE^ (Reiidle). [Fleurya. 



F. peduiwularis, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 75. Urtica pedun- 

 cnlaris, E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 143 (name). 



Mozamb. Distr. Ccrmau East Africa : Kwa Mshuza, Engler, 9019 ! Kili- 

 manjaro ; Marangu, 5300 ft., Volkens, 2319! Gazaland : Chirinda Forest, 

 :J700-i000 ft., Swynnerton, 338 ! 793 ! 



Also in South Africa. 



6. F. mooreana, Rendle. An annual violently stinging herb, 

 3-5 (more rarely 6) ft. high; stem erect or ascending and rooting 

 at the base, branching above, slender, 2 lin. or less thick, bearing 

 numerous spreading stinging hairs, each on a prominent base, 

 2-3 lin. long, otherwise glabrous. Leaves with long petioles, thin and 

 papery when dry, deltoid, apex long-acuminate, base apparently 

 truncate, but'split for 2-3 lin. with overlapping rounded edges giving 

 the appearance of a ])eltate base, margin grossly toothed, the teeth 

 becoming larger below, the lowermost recurved, 3-5 in. long, 2-3J in. 

 wide, glabrous above, with short appressed hairs on the lower face, 

 especially on the veins ; petiole longer or sometimes shorter than 

 the leaf, 2J-5 in. long, hairy like the stem ; stipules small lanceolate, 

 acuminate, about Ih lin. long, caducous. Inflorescences unisexual, 

 lax, nmch elongated and narrowly pyramidal in outline, 6-7 in. long, 

 the upper female, far exceeding the smaller subtending leaves and 

 bearing the loosely clustered flowers on short lateral branches, 

 the lower male, equal to or sometimes exceeding the larger leaves, the 

 fl(nvers in small roundish clusters on the slender main axis or in the 

 lower half on the slender horizontally spreading branches, the lower- 

 most of which are 1-lJ in. long. Male flowers in bud depressed- 

 globose and a little over 1 lin. in diam. ; perianth l-partite, segments 

 with a small subapical umbo in the bud. Female flower : lateral 

 perianth-lobes broadly ovate, blunt, with minutely ciliolate margin 

 enveloping the ovary, anterior lobe very small, posterior minute or 

 obsolete ; stigma broadly linear, subapical, nearly as long as the 

 ovary. Achene sharply deflexed at the end of the slender stalk 

 which is equal to or twice its length, pale brown, compressed, 

 obliquely pyriform in outline with a marginal wing, and a central 

 depressed minutely warted area, a little over J lin. long ; the lateral 

 perianth-lobes short, covering only the base of the achene. — F, grossa, 

 Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 989 ; not of Wedd. Adicea mooreanci, 

 Hiern, I.e. 991. Pilea mooreana. K. Schum. in Just, Jahresber. xxviii. 

 i. 463. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Pungo Andongo ; Welwitsch, 6276 ! Catete, 

 Welwitsch, 6273 ! primary forests of Mata do Pungo, Welwitsch, 6256 ! 6295 

 partly ! 



Distinguished from F. grossa, Wedd., a South African sj^cies, by the much 

 elongated inflorescences and the rather broadly winged compressed warted 

 achenes. 



Nos. 625(», ()27«i of Welwitsch are Adicea mooreana, Hiern, which is apparently 



