286 cxxiiiD. URTiCACEJE (Rendle). [Bcehineria, 



Var. ugmidensis, Rcndlc in Joum. Bot. 1917,201. A straggling shrub 4-8 ft. 

 high, hirsute ; leaves stiff when dry, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic, more rarely 

 ovate, acuminate, base rounded, margin regularly serrate-dentate except at the 

 base, 4-7:irin. long, 1|-2.V, rarely 3|, in. wide, upper face rugulose and scabrid, 

 lower face hirsute especially on the nerves and veins, prominently 3-nerved. 

 Spikes simple, exceeding the leaves. Fruiting perianth compressed, shortly 

 obovoid to rounded, with a short neck, hispidulous in the upper part. 



Nile Land. Uganda, at 3900-5000 ft. : Buddu, Scott Elliot, 7531 ! Entebbe, 

 Bagshawe, 799 ! Mawokota, Brown, 204 ! Ankole, Dawe, 423 ! Kirerema, 

 Diimmer, 89 ! Kipayo, Dummer, 979 ! 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Monbuttu ; at the River Kussumbo, 

 Schweinfurth, 3204 ! Assika River, Sckweinfurth, 3128 ! 



Var. angolensin, Rendle, I.e. A shrub of ])yramidal habit up to 8 ft. high, 

 young shoots and leaves pubescent ; leaves flaccid, elliptic with a cuneate base, 

 apex acute or shortly acuminate, margin regularly dentate-serrate above the 

 base, tJ-9 in. long, 3-4 in. wide. Fruiting perianth compressed, rotund to 

 obovoid, neck short, hirtellous above the base. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Cazengo ; Granja de S. Luiz, Gossweiler, 4056 ! 

 4851 ! 



Var. nigcriami, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 213. Branches, petioles and 

 rhachis of inflorescence hirsute ; leaves somewhat narrowly ovate-elliptic, long- 

 acuminate, base obtuse, emarginate at the insertion of the |)etiole, margin 

 (except at the base and tip) regularly dentate-serrate throughout, 3-6 in. long; 

 l|-2, rarely 2|, in. wide, jietiole ]-l^ in. long, the two leaves of a pair generally 

 unequal and with unequal petioles, hirsute to glabrate, upper face generally 

 more or less hispid, lower face more or less hirsute on the nerves and veins. 

 Spikes simple, solitary in the leaf-axils, spreading. Fruit compressed, obovoid, 

 puberulous in the upper portion. 



Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria: Aboh, Barter, 114! Cameroons : 

 Efulen, Bates, 214 ! Bipinde, Zenker, 4034 ! 



The species is also recorded from the following localities, but I have not seen 

 the specimens and am therefore unable to distribute them among the various 

 forms. 



Lower Guinea. Belgian Congo : Kisantu. ilillet, 158. 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Ituri, Mildbraed, 2926 ; Beni, Mildbraed, 

 2297. 



12. POUZOLZIA, Gaud. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Geu. PL iii. 387. 



Flowers generally monoecious, in clusters at the leaf-axils. Male : 

 Perianth 4-5-lobed or -partite, rarely 3-partite, segments valvate, 

 often acute or shortly acuminate but without an appendage. Stamens 

 equal in number to the perianth-segments. Ovary rudiment present. 

 Female : Perianth forming a sac round the ovary, narrowing above 

 and constricted at the mouth which is 2-4-toothed. Ovary com- 

 pletely enclosed by the perianth ; stigma generally linear or filiform, 

 hairy on one side, borne on a short style above the mouth of the 

 perianth, generally soon falling ; ovule erect from the base. Achene 

 enclosed in the persistent perianth and conforming to it ; pericarp 

 generally smooth and shining, brittle. Seed conforming to the 

 pericarp ; testa thin ; albumen very scanty or none ; cotyledons 



