Forskohlea.] cxxiiid. urticacea: (llendle). 301 



dark, blackisli-greeii, bparscly hiaj)idulou.s, and scabrid with I he 

 dense cystoliths, lower face grey-tomentose between the sh'uder 

 somewhat prominent nerves, especially when younj^ ; j)etiole less than 

 half the length of the blade. Stipules rotund-ovate, cuspidately 

 acute, white, thinly scarious, barely 1^ lin. long, hispidulous on the 

 margin and midvein, persistent after leaf-fall. Flower-heads sessile, 

 generally 2 at each node, ])roportionately large, bell-sha])ed, ^-i in. 

 long, densely covered to about the middle with dark greenish silky 

 hairs ; bracts 6, lanceolate-spathulate, acute, ciliolate above on the 

 back and margin, erect in fruit. Flowers many, embedded in a 

 reddish-brown wool. Male perianth minutely hispidulous, midlobe 

 hooded, subacute. Achene compressed, elliptic-ovoid with a long 

 apiculus, chestnut-brown, about 2 lin. long, the filiform stigma 

 persistent. — F. Candida, var. p, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 235^*. 



Lower Guinea. Daraaraland : Wclwitsch, Galpin cD Pcaraon, 7523 ! aud 

 without precise locality. Lindner ! 



Also in South Africa (Little Namaland). 



3. F. Eenii, Rendle in Journ. But. 11)17, 203. Branchlets eleiider. 

 becoming woody below, 6-7 in. long, J lin. in diam. Leaves small 

 ovate, apex bluntish, base cuneate, elongated and passing into th(^ 

 petiole, margin entire, with 3-5 proportionately large blunt teeth on 

 each side and hispidulous, |-1 in, long, \-^ in. wide, with a single 

 ascending nerve on each side above the basal pair, upper face light 

 green when dry, minutely hispidulous and scabrid with dense round 

 cystoliths, hispidulous beneath on the somewhat j^rominent veins, 

 and when young covered with a thin grey-white tomentum between ; 

 petiole 2-4 lin. long, less than half the length of the blade, Stii)uleS 

 scarious, ovate or broadly ovate, acuminate, \l lin. long, hairy on 

 the margin and midrib. Heads of flowers sessile, generally 2 at each 

 node, ultimately about \ in. long, shortly campumdate. the tube 

 densely clothed with silky hairs resembling those of F. tcnacis^ima ; 

 bracts 4, narrowly obovate, hispidulous on back and margin, erect 

 in fruit. Flowers resembling those of F. Lciiaciasi/tia, enveloping 

 wool ferruginous in colour. 



Lower Guinea. Damaralaud, A'c/i ! 



4. F. Candida, Linn. f. Suppl. 245. A nu)re or less hispid herb 

 or shrub with a strong tap-root growing in dry sand or among btones, 

 from a lew inches to 3 ft. high, branched from the base ; stem and 

 branches slender, more or less hispid, especially in the younger 

 portion. Leaves elliptic-ovate or ovate, sometimes elliptic-spat hu- 

 late ; apex acute or sometimes blunt, base cuneate, narrowing into 

 the petiole, margin sinuate-dentate with 2-4 acute teeth on each 

 side, sometimes very shallowly toothed, varying much in size from 

 ^2 in. long, J-1 in. wide, pinnately nerved as in F. hercrocnsv>, upper 



