258 cxxiiid. URTiCACEiE (Reudle). [Urera. 



the j^ctiole, loosely paniculate, up to 6 in. lon^, including the slender 

 peduncle (2| in.), branches slender ; flowers clustered at intervals on 

 the densely puberulous ultimate branches ; pedicels densely puberu- 

 lous, a little over 1 lin. long ; flowers puberulous, a little over -| lin. in 

 diani. ; perianth 5-partite. Female inflorescence in the axils of the 

 foliage-leaves, exceeding the petiole but much smaller than the male 

 and with shorter branches, puberulous, H-3 in. long ; flowers several 

 together on short stalks at the end of the short ultimate branchlets, 

 surrounded by numerous stiff stinging hairs ; perianth bluntly 4- 

 toothed, reaching about half-way up the ovoid ovary ; stigma an 

 oblicjue circular tuft of short hairs. Perianth orange in fruit ( Vogel). 

 —Wedd. Monogr. Urtic. 159, and in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 97 partly ; 

 Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. x. 162. Bocluncria {Procris?) rigida, 

 Bcnth. I.e. 519. Urtica ri(jida, Don in Herb. 



Upper Guinea. Situia I^ono : Bulumba, 050 11., Thomu.s, 11)20 ! without 

 ptccisc locality, Vogel, 04 ! Don ! S. Nigeria : Lagos ; western interior, 

 Rowland ! Abeokuta, Millen ! 



Var. Qwintasii, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 120. A liane ; stem and petiole 

 armed with numerous simple conical and 2- to 3-forked spines, which arc some- 

 times l|-2 lin. long. T^af large, orbicular-ovat^?, long-acuminate, margin 

 shortl}' and closely toothed, about ()-8 in. long and wide ; petiole 4 to 5 times 

 shorter than the blade, ])uberulous. 



Upper Guinea. (!ameroons : Barombi, in bush-wood, Preuss, 57 ; \'ictoria, 

 Freuss. 



Lower Guinea. Princes Island : primary forest, Quinta.s, 150. 



Fish-snares arc made from the bast. 



5. U. Elliotii, Rendle in Jourji. Bot. 1916, 369. Young branches 

 stout and apparently succulent, sparsely armed with slender protuber- 

 ances bearing a small terminal stinging hair, a few shorter similar 

 structures occur on the petiole and main nerves, shortly hispidulous, 

 reddish-brown. Leaves elliptic-ovate, apex obscurely acuminate, 

 base rounded, margin somewhat irregularly crenate-dentate, base 

 o-nerved, with one or two lateral nerves on each side above, nerves 

 conspicuous as are also the transverse cross-unions and intervening 

 network, 4-6 in. long, 3-4 in. wide, hispidulous on both faces, cysto- 

 liths short, linear, following the nerves and veins on the lower face ; 

 petiole stoutish, up to If in. long. Female inflorescence spreading, 

 axis repeatedly forked, about 3 in. long, copiously armed with pro- 

 tuberances similar to but much smaller than those on the stem ; 

 flowers aggregated in small shortly stalked heads on the ulthnate 

 branchlets, associated with little groups of stinging hairs. Ovary 

 completely enveloped in the younger flower in the sac-like almost 

 tubular perianth which later becomes ellipsoid-ovoid, the somewhat 

 flattened stigma protruding from the narrow moiith. Achene 

 chestnut-brown, ovoid, 1 lin. long, enveloped in the succulent yellow 

 perianth. 



Upper Guinea. 8ierra Leone : Limba Country ; near Bafodeya, IScotl 

 Elliot, 5559 : 



