Urera.] cxxiiiu. urticace^ (Reiidle). 255 



1. U. hypselodendron,HV^f/. in Ann. Sci. Nat. Stnc ser. xviii. 203. A 

 large perennial with a woody stem scrambling over bushes, trees and 

 rocks, ultimate branches hanging, or a tree reaching 40 ft. in height 

 {Scott Elliot), branchlets smooth, reddish -brown, glabrous or puberu- 

 lous. Leaves ovate or rotund-ovate, abruptly acuminate, base blunt, 

 truncate or subcordate, margin crenulate but generally entire near the 

 base, with 3 to 5 ascending lateral nerves on each side above the 3- 

 nerved base, connecting veins numerous, subparallel, conspicuous on 

 the lower face, 2J-6|- in. long, l|-5 in. wide, upper face glabrous, and 

 when dry closely dotted with cystoliths, lower face glabiate or sparsely 

 puberulous or shortly hair)" on the midrib and nerves, cystoUths 

 shortly linear ; petiole shorter than the leaf. United stipules broadly 

 triangular-lanceolate, shortly hairy on the edges and nerves, soon 

 falling. Flowers dioecious. Male inflorescence shorter or sometimes 

 longer than the petiole, rather laxly flowered, the short peduncle and 

 spreading branches puberulous, flowers stalked, pedicel about 1 lin. 

 long, perianth-segments 4, minutely puberulous. Female inflor- 

 escence similar to the male but the spreading branches shorter ; 

 flowers sessile in clusters at the ends of the short branchlets ; 

 perianth with 2 larger elliptic inner lateral lobes equal to the ovar}'/ 

 and two minute outer lobes ; stigma roundish, densely and shortly 

 penicillate. Achene slightly obliquely ovate, compressed, pale brown 

 with dark brown spots, about equal to the somewhat ventricose 

 lateral perianth-lobes, the surface of which is minutelv granular.- - 

 Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 96 ; Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 379, 

 and in Mildbraed, Wiss. Ergebn. Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. 1907-8, 

 ii. 189. U. Schiynperi, Wedd. Monogr. Urtic. 158. Urtica Injpseh- 

 dendron, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 260. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia: Samen ; below Enschedcap, /Sc7/t/«7><:"r, 113(5 ! Met- 

 taro, 8300 ft., Schimper, 342 ! Adowa, Petit, 106 ! Shireh, Quarfin Dillon ; 

 and without precise locality, Both ! British East Africa : Uganda ; Ruwcnzoi i. 

 8000 ft., Scott Elliot, 7806 ! Kivata, Scott Elliot, 1114 ! third day's march from 

 Eldama Ravine, Whyte ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Rugege, Mildbraed, 1057 ; Bugoycr, N.E. 

 of Lake Kivu, Mildbraed, 1402. 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Usambara ; Lutindi, Hoist, 3427 ! 

 Central Uluguru ; Lukwangula, 0800 ft., Stuhlmann, 9110. Nyasaland : 

 Mount Malosa, 4000-GOOO ft., WJiyte ! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 

 1465! 



2. U. oblongifolia, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 515. A liiucious 

 glabrous shrub, climbing by means of adventitious roots on the 

 slender branches ; branches unarmed, reddish -brown. Leaves long- 

 stalked, papery to membranous when dry, elliptic or obk)ng-elliptic, 

 somewhat abruptly acuminate, the tip obtuse, .'3-5 lin. long, base 

 blunt or rounded, margin almost entire, veiy slightly serrate, with a 

 lateral pair of nerves immediately above the base and 3 on each side 

 above, all ascending and curving to unite below the margin, con- 

 spicuous on the lower face, 2-4 in. long, 1-1^ in. wide, lower face 



