302 cxxiiid. URTlCACE^ (Eendle). [Forskohlea. 



face rough, dark-green when dry, generally grey-tomentose beneath 

 between the nerves especially when young, nerves beneath and the 

 slightly inrolled margin hispidulous ; petiole about half the length 

 of the blade or less. Stipules small, scarious, ovate, acuminate, 

 about 1 lin. long, somewhat persistent. Flower-heads sessile, gene- 

 rally 2 at each node, 3-4 lin. long, somewhat funnel-shaped, densely 

 hairy in the lower half ; bracts generally 4 or 5, base linear, limb 

 obovate to subrhomboid, blunt, membranous, ciliolate on the margin, 

 upper portion ample, scarious, shining white and spreading in fruit. 

 Flowers few, embedded in whitish or ferruginous wool. Fruit red- 

 brown, elliptic, apiculate, 1 lin. or more long, bearing the persistent 

 filiform stigma.— Thunb. Prodr. 77 ; Wedd. Monogr. Urtic. 536, 

 and in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 235^® ; Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 

 App. iii. 51 ; Dinter, Deutsch. Siidw.-Afr. 55. F. scabra, Retz. 

 Obs. iii. 31. 



Lower Guinea. Damaialand : Otjimbingue, Murlulh, 1380 ; Usab, Raulanen, 

 111; Okahandya and Windhoek, Dinter ; and without precise locality, Schciic/c ; 

 Fleck, 851. 



Also in South Africa. 



5. F. viridis, Ehrenh. ex DesJ. Cat. Hort. Bot. Par. cd. 3. 347 {na))ie 

 only) ; Wedd. Monogr. Urtic. 537, t. xix. jigs. 5-13; 7iot of Wehh in 

 Hook. Niger Fl. 179. An annual herb from a few inches to 3 ft. 

 high, often becoming woody below, branching from the base ; branches 

 spreading ; stem and branches slender, hirtellous, later glabrescent. 

 Leaves ovate to lanceolate, apex acuminate, base cuneate and entire 

 passing into the petiole, margin above the base somewhat coarsety 

 crenate-serrate, teeth blunt, varying much in size from less than 

 J in. to 4 in. long, and J-2 in. wide, triplinerved or pinnately-nerved, 

 membranous when dry, margin ciliate, upper face sparsely hispidu- 

 lous, and rough with numerous dot-like cystoliths, hairy on the 

 nerves beneath and sometimes with a scanty whitish tonientum 

 between the nerves ; petiole shorter than and often about half the 

 length of the blade, sometimes shorter. Stipules ovate, acuminate, 

 scarious, hairy on the margin. Heads of flowers sessile, two or more 

 at each node ; bracts 2-6, often 4 ; when 2, broadly ovate to elliptic, 

 abruptly acute, IJ to ultimately 2J lin. long, enclosing a female 

 flower sometimes with a lateral pair of male flowers ; 4-6-leaved 

 involucre turbinate, generally many-flowered, 2J-4 lin. long, tube 

 densely clothed with silky whitish hairs especially on the angles ; 

 lobes ample, obovate, blunt, ultimately spreading and membranous, 

 sparsely puberulous, with ciliolate margin. Flower,s embedded 

 in whitish or sometimes pale ferruginous coloured wool. Male 

 perianth-limb obsoletely 3-lobed. Achene ellipsoid, apiculate. — 

 Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 235^^ ; Solms in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. 

 Aethiop. 187, incl. var. ? Ehrenbergii, Solms ; Franch. Sert. Somal. 



