Pouzolzid. cxxiiii>. uiiTiOACE^ (Hcndli^). 291 



stigma at least 3 lin. long, densely covered on one wide with short 

 brown hairs. Unripe fruiting perianth barely 1 lin. long, ventricose- 

 ovoid, constricted below the minutely 3-dentate mouth, with evident 

 longitudinal nerves, puberulous in upper portion. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; in Bhady foresta at Catumba Wclwitsch, 

 G2D0 ! Ambriz, Montciro ! 



6. P. hypoleuca, Wcdd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 227. A monoecious 

 perennial 3-4 ft, sometimes 12 ft. high, with somewhat large fleshy 

 roots. Stems leafy, woody below, simple or branched, terete, puberu- 

 lous, 2 lin. thick at about a foot below the apex and with internodes 

 varying in length from j to 1 J in. Leaves ample, elliptic to elliptic- 

 ovate, acuminate, base blunt to subacute, margin entire, ^6 in. 

 long, 1|-2J in. wide, 3-nerved, lateral pair of nerves ascending for 

 two-thirds the length of the blade, with two additional lateral nerves 

 on each side, upper face sparsely hairy, minutely scabridulous with 

 numerous dot-like cystoliths, lower face closely covered except 

 on the nerves with a thin white tomentum ; petiole rather stout, 

 densely puberulous, i-lj in. long. Stipules glumaceous. lanceolate- 

 acuminate with a well-marked pubescent midrib on the back, margin 

 not ciliate, 4-5 lin. long. Flowers crowded in roundish axillary 

 clusters, male and female intermixed ; bracts small, scarious. Male 

 perianth shortly campanulate, puberulous, 1 lin. long, r)-partite to 

 about one-third from the base, segments ovate, shortly acuminate ; 

 pedicels persistent, puberulous, about as long as the perianth. Female 

 flowers sessile ; perianth puberulous, the narrow mouth 2-dentate, 

 less than 1 lin. long; stigma very long, narrow-linear, 2-2^ lin. long, 

 minutely hairy, and persisting for some time dui iiig the ripening of 

 the fruit. Fruiting perianth broadly compressed-ovoid with acute 

 tip, puberulous, 1 lin. long, closely investing the polislied whitish 

 to brown-black achene. — Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 290. 



Mozamb. Distr. Ckirman East Africa : Lower Kontlcland ; near Lan;ztn- 

 berg at 1(500 ft., Goetze, 858. Nyasaland : Plainn of Zomba, 2G(K)-:jmM) ft.. 

 Whf^te\ Purvcs, 22(5! foot of Mount Moiamballa, Kirl:\ Shire Highlands; 

 Mbome, BacJuinan, 164 ! and without further locality liuchmunt, !l2l> ! Rho- 

 desia : \'ictoria. Monro, 892 ! Matabele Country, Ilolub, 1.352 ! 



A fibre known to the natives as Lichopwa la obtained from the 8t<?ma of thib 

 plant (Purves). 



Also Tranavaal and Natal. 



7. P. mixta, Solms in Schweinf. Beiir. Fl. Aethiop. 188. A mo- 

 noecious shrub with woody somewhat angled l)ranchcs which bear 

 the remains of past inflorescences, young branches clothed with 

 spreading soft white hairs. Leaves alternate, short -stalked, ovate, 

 acuminate, margin entire, J-IJ in. long, 7 lin. wide, u})per face 

 densely covered with short hairs, under face especially when young 

 more or less white-tomentose ; petiole 2J lin. long. Stipules 



