Pouzolzia.] cxxiiiD. urticace^ (Rendle). 293 



long, divided about half-way into 4 or 5 ovate acute segments, 

 puberulous on the back. Stigma long, slender. Fruiting perianth 

 (unripe) broadly ovoid, constricted above, about J lin. long, pubeni- 

 lous, and with inconspicuous longitudinal nerves, closely investing 

 the smooth white achene. 



Mozamb. Distr. Ny<asaland : Shiro Higlilands, Scott Ellioty 8079 ! 



Comparison of specimens may prove the last three species to be conBi^ocino. 



10. P. parasitica, Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Ajpf. ii. 145. 

 Perennial shrub, growing in forest or under tree-shade ; stems 3-6 ft. 

 high, terete, reddish-brown with thin separable bark and about 

 \ in. thick, erect or ascending with long slender erect branches 

 which are herbaceous, at any rate in the upper part, and hirtellous 

 or pubescent, lower nodes bare. Leaves long- to shorter-stalked, 

 ovate, ovate-elliptic, sometimes roundly ovate, acuminate, base 

 cuneate to rounded, rarely truncate, entire, the rest of the margin 

 crenate-serrate, 2-4J in. long, li"2| in, wide, 3-nerved, the lateral 

 nerves passing well above the middle generally into the upper third 

 of the blade, with two upper lateral nerves on each side ; upper face 

 sparsely hispidly hairy and dotted with whitish cystoliths, more 

 or less pubescent beneath especially on the somewhat prominent 

 slender nerves ; petiole slender, pubescent, generally between 

 J and 2 in. long. Stipules brown, glumaceous, triangular-ovate to 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 3-5 lin. long, with long hairs on the well- 

 marked midrib and margin, persistent and forming an involucre 

 for the axillary inflorescence. Flower-clusters 2-3 lin. in diam,, 

 consisting of numerous short-stalked male and a few sessile female. 

 Male perianth campanulate, about 1 lin. long, divided to about the 

 middle into 4 (sometimes 3) ovate shortly mucronate-acuminate 

 segments, pubenilous on the back. Stigma slender, longer than 

 the perianth, soon falling. Fruiting perianth broadly ovoid, acute, 

 a little over 1 lin, long, puberulous especially in the upper part, 

 longitudinally nerved, closely investing the white polished achene. — 

 Engl, in Mildbraed, Wiss. Ergebn. Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. 

 1907-8, ii. 191. P. procridioides, Wedd. Monogr. Urtic. 412, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 231 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 194 ; Hiern 

 in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 992. Boehmeria procridioides, Bl. Mus. 

 Bot. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 204. Margarocarpus procridioides , Wedd. in 

 Ann. Sci. Nat. 4me ser. i. 204. Urtica muralis, Vahl, Symb. i. 77. 

 U. parasitica, Forsk. Fl. ^gypt.-Arab. 160. V . procridioides, 

 E. Meyer ex Drege, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 150, 151 (name only). 



Nile Land. Abyssinia : Mount Sholoda, at 0600 ft., Schimper, 278 ! and 

 without further locahty, Quartin Dillon, 45. British East Africa : Kitui, 

 Hildebrandt, 2686! Uganda: Ruwenzori ; Kasamnga, .'>300 ft., Scott Kllint , 

 7540 ! and at 7000-8000 ft., Scott Elliot, 7761 ! Kipavo, 4(H)0 ft., Ditmyncr, 

 761 ! 855 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Benguella ; near Bumlm. Welwit^'ch. 6278 ! 



