304 cxxiiiD, URTiOACE^ (Rendle). [Droguetia, 



i^enerally elongated, often as long as or longer than the leaf ; branches 

 numerous, short, spreading or ascending, very slender, leafy. Leaves 

 opposite, ovate, acuminate, base obtuse to rounded, margin above 

 the base crenate-dentate, on the main shoots 1^-2 in. long, |-1 in. 

 wide, smaller on the branches, 3-nerved, membranous when dry, 

 upper face with a few stiffish appressed hairs, and dotted with cysto- 

 liths, lower face more or less hairy on the nerves ; petiole slender, 

 often about a quarter the length of the blade, rarely nearly half as 

 long. Stipules ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute to subulate-acuminate, 

 lJ-2 lin. long, scarious, hairy on the midrib. Inflorescence axillary, 

 consisting in the more complete cases of an androgynous involucre 

 above each stipule and an undeveloped axillary shoot bearing opposite 

 dichasia of female involucres containing one or two flowers which 

 mature later ; - androgynous involucre bowl-shaped to campanulate 

 with shallowly toothed margin containing many to few male flowers 

 surrounding one or two female, 1-2J lin. in diani., with scanty wool 

 among the flowers ; female involucre ventricose-tubular with 

 shortly toothed mouth ; involucres pubescent on the outside. The 

 androgynous involucres may be much reduced or absent, in the 

 latter case the whole plant may be female. Male flowers shortly 

 stalked, about 1 lin. long, perianth 3-lobed above, the middle lobe 

 acute to acuminate, 1 lin. long, puberulous above. Achene com- 

 pressed ventricose-ovate, about h lin. long, shiny black. — Engl, in 

 Mildbraed, Wiss. Ergebn. Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. 1907-8, 

 ii. 192 ; R. PI Fries, Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Rhodes.-Kongo Exped. 

 1911-12. i. 18. D. diffusa, Wedd. in Ann. Sci. Nat. 4me ser. i. 211 and 

 Monogr. Urtic. 541, t. 19, figs. A, 1-11 ; Hook. f. in Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 

 593. D. paucijlora, Wedd. in DO. Prodr. xvi. i. 235^^ . gngl. Hoch- 

 gebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 194 and Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 164. UHica iners, 

 Forsk. Fl. iEgypt.-Arab. 160. U. verticillata, Vahl, Symbol, i. 76. 

 U. pauciflora, Hochst. ex Steud. in Flora, 1850, 258. IJ . wens, var. 

 imrs, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 40. Pouzolzia paucijlora, A. Rich. 

 Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 259. Forskohlea uHicoides, Wight, Ic. PI. 1. 1982. 

 Didymogyne abyssinica, Wedd. in Ann. Sci. Nat. 4me ser. i. 207. 

 Boehmeria paucijlora, Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 201. B. parvi- 

 folia, Wedd. l.c.^ 203 and Monogr. Urtic. 359. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia : Mount Silke, ScUmper, 682 ! Debia Tabor, 8500 ft., 

 Schimper, 1143 ! and without precise locality, Schimper, 627 ! Uganda : 

 Ruwenzori, 6000-9000 ft., Scott Elliot, 7708 ! West side of Ruwenzori ; Ka- 

 longe, 85U0 ft., Mildbraed, 2490. 



Mozaml). Distr. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro ; Marangu, .5000 ft., 

 Volken,s, 1239 ! Kissenye : Ninagongo, 8500-9500 ft., Mildbraedy 1384; Friea, 

 1638. British Central Africa : Nyasaland, Buchanan^ 123 ! 



Also in Arabia, India (Nilgiri Hills), and Java. 



2. D. debilis, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1917, 203. A weak plant with 

 slender wiry stems, woody, prostrate and rooting below, then ascend- 

 ing, 2 liii- ^^ ^^^^ thick, 4-6 in. long, with a few short weak ascending 



