266 cxxniD. urticace^ (Rendle). [Girardinia. 



entire or 2-fid, J in. long, strongly 2-nerved, puberulous. Male 

 inflorescence laxly paniculate, about as long as the petiole, 8 in. ; 

 flowers densely clustered on the axis and spreading branches which 

 are similar in their hairs to the petioles ; pedicels up to 1 J lin. long, 

 softly hairy ; perianth 4-5-partite, 1-|- lin. long, the concave seg- 

 ments bearing a triangular horn-like projection below the incurved 

 membranous blunt apex : in one specimen a small inflorescence con- 

 taining both male and female branches occurs. Female inflorescence 

 consisting of an axis and a few short branches densely covered with 

 lobe-like cymes, shorter or longer than the leaf-stalk, densely beset 

 with stinging hairs ; flowers densely crowded, subsessile ; perianth 

 2-lobed, upper lobe larger, about f lin. long, enveloping the ovary, 

 with a dorsal keel and gibbous below the minutely 3-toothed apex, 

 lower lobe small, narrow, subulate. The inflorescence in fruit forms 

 very dense cylindrical lobulate structures up to 6 in. long (including 

 a stalk of 1 in.) and 1 in. thick. Achene rounded, 2 lin. in diam., 

 blackish-brown, surface granulate.— Wedd. Monogr. Urtic. 168, and 

 t. 2, B, figs. 5-7, and in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 102 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. 

 Trop. Afr. 193 and in Mildbraed, Wiss. Ergebn. Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr. 

 Exped. 1907-8, ii. 190. Urfica bullosa, Hochst. ex Steud. in Flora, 

 1850, 259 ; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 262. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia : near Jenausa, Schimpcr, 1400 ! Gafat, 8200 ft., 

 Schimper, 12(>l ! 8amen ; G'haba, Sfeiidner, 1387 ; and without precise locality, 

 Sr/iimprr, &22 ! 



Mozamb. Distr. German P]ast Africa : Ruanda ; south of Karisimbi, Mild- 

 fmird, 150:3. 



2. G. condensata, Wedd. Monogr. Urtic. 169, and t. 2, B, figs. 1-4. 

 A herb, monoecious or dioecious ; stem erect, U-6 ft. high, simple or 

 slightly branched, somewhat succulent, furrowed, hirtellous and beset 

 with sharp stinging hairs, as are also the petioles, becoming glabrous 

 below. Leaves very variable in form and size, simple and ovate or 

 rotund-ovate, with acuminate apex and serrate or grossly serrate 

 margin, becoming even on the same plant 3-lobed to deeply 3-lobed. 

 lobes acuminate, with more or less serrate margin and sometimes 

 with a shorter secondary lobe, base rounded, or very blunt to truncate 

 or somewhat cordate, conspicuously 3-nerved, fateral nerves and 

 veins more or less conspicuous beneath, 2-10 in. long, IJ-IO in. wide, 

 thinly membranous when dry, upper face dotted with cystoliths and 

 with appressed white hairs, also a few stinging hairs on the nerves, 

 lower face similarly hairy ; petiole generally less than half the length 

 of the leaf. United stipules broadly ovate, 2-fid at the apex, some- 

 what hispid, soon falling. Inflorescences unisexual, generally 

 solitary in the leaf-axils, with a short peduncle, sometimes a second 

 of alternative sex is present. Male simple, forked or with a few lax 

 branches shorter or longer than the petiole, flowers densely arranged 

 along the axes ; bud about 1 lin. in diam. ; perianth 4-5-partite, 



