Girardinia.] cxxiiin. urticace/E (Rendle). 267 



segments with merely a small thickening of the mid-vein below the 

 apex, hispidulous on the back. Female shorter than the petioles, 

 the cymiiles densely crowded on the axis or its short brandies, densely 

 beset with spreading white stinging hairs ; flowers subsessile ; perianth 

 consisting of a very concave upper segment oV)sciirely toothed at the 

 apex and a caducous slender transparent hair-like lower segment. In 

 fruit the inflorescence forms capitate or generally thick oblong or 

 cylindrical spike-like simple or branched masses \ lin. to 2 in. long, 

 densely covered with the spreading stiff stinging hairs. AcImmk' 

 broadly ovate or somewhat cordate, IJ to nearly 2 lin. long. -Wedd. 

 in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 103, and in a more limited sense, in Ann. Sci. 

 Nat. 4me ser. i. 181 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 193, Pfl. Ost- 

 Afr. C. 163, in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 290, and in Mildbraed, Wiss. Ergebn. 

 Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. 1907-8, ii. 190. G. adornsis, Wedd. in 

 Ann. Sci. Nat. 4me s^r. i. 181 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 990. 

 Urtka adoensis, Hochst. ex Steud. in Flora, 1850, 259 ; A. Rich. 

 Tent. Fl. Abvss. ii. 262. U. condcnsata, Hochst. ex Steud. I.e. 260 ; 

 A. Rich. I.e. 263. 



Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria : Ewena, Thompson, 514 ! 



Nile Land. Abyssinia: near Adowa, Schimper, 101! Mount Sholoda, 

 Scliitnp-r, 1888 ! Mai Sigamo, 0200 ft., Schimper, 277 ! Sanka Berr, 7000 ft., 

 Schimper, 125(5 ! and without precise locality, Schimper, 810 ! British East 

 Africa : Rabai, Taylor ! Kibwezi River, Kaessner, (591 ! Eldama Ravine 

 and Mau, 7000-7500 ft., Whyte ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Pungo Andongo ; Welwitsch, (5205, partly (020(5 

 in Herb. Kew.) ! Huilla ; Monino, Welwitsch, 0289 ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Niragongo, north of Lake Kivu, Mildhmcd, 

 ir,0(5. 



Mozamb. Distr. CTcrman East Africa : Livingstone Mountains, Goetze, 1175. 

 Nvasaland : Mount Chiradzulu, Whyte\ Shire Highlands; \\\&ni\xv, Bncli- 

 aitan, 71! 1(5(5! Nyika Plat^^au, (5000-7000 ft., Whyte, 221 \ 'Manganja 

 Hills, Waller \ Tshinmuzo, :U)(X) ft.. Kirk \ and without precise loc;ility, 

 Buchnnnv, 557 ! 



Very near the Himalayan G. hetcrophylla, Don. 



7. PILEA, Lindl. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 381. 



Flowers monoecious or di(x>cions. Male flowers : Perianth 2-5-, 

 |n;enerally 4-partite ; segments valvate, concave, somewhat fleshy, 

 with a horn-like appendage below the membranous apex. Stamens 

 as many as the perianth-segments ; ovary rudimentary. Female 

 flowers : Perianth 3-partite : segments unequal, generally greenish, 

 the median larger than the two lateral, and dorsally gibbous or 

 hooded, the lateral Hat, often very small. Staminodes opposite to 

 the perianth-segments, scale-like, inHexed, ultimately reflcxed ex- 

 ])elling the ripe fruit. Ovary straight ; ovule erect from the base of 

 the chamber. Stigma sessile, shortly penicillate. Achene ovate 

 or roundish, compressed, smooth or scabridulous, more or less incom- 

 pletely enveloped by the persistent perianth-segments. Seed-coat 



