8()6 cxxiiiD. URTiCACE^ (Eendle). [Australma. 



3-nerve(l, membranous when dry, sparsely hairy on both faces, 

 dotted above with minute cystoliths ; petiole 1 lin. or less in length. 

 Stipules ovate, free or united in the lower part beneath the petiole, 

 scarious, ciliate, nearly 2 lin. or less in length. Male cynmles on a 

 peduncle 2-3 times as long as the petiole ; flowers few, sessile ; 

 perianth about J lin. long with a funnel-shaped tube, obscurely 

 2-lipped, the inner lobe almost obsolete, the outer bruad, abruptly 

 acuminate and erect, ciliate on midvein and margin. Female 

 flowers generally in a connate pair, sessile ; perianth sac-like, con- 

 stricted above to an obtuse bluntly 4-5-toothed mouth, puberulous ; 

 style filiform, projecting. Achene ovoid, fuscous ; pericarp thin. — 

 A. schimperiana, Wedd. in Ann, Sci. Nat. 4me ser. 1. 212. and in 

 Monogr. Urtic. 546, t. 20, C. Pouzolzia flaccida, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. 

 Abyss, ii. 259. 



Nile Land. Abysbinia: Shoa, Fratu/acrillcl neai'Adowa and MLnmaxh, Dillon ; 

 and without ])recisc locality, 6500 ft., Schirnper, 71)5 ! 



2. A. acuminata, Wedd. m Ann. Sci. Nat. ime ser. i. 212. An 

 annual herb branching from the base, 8-21 in. high ; stem erect, 

 slender, puberulous, as are also the very slender ascending branches. 

 Leaves alternate, ovate, acuminate, base triangular to cuneate and 

 entire, margin elsewhere crenate-serrate, in tropical African specimens 

 f-lj in. long, 5-10 lin. wide, 3-nerved, membranous, sparsely pilose 

 on the upper face and on the veins beneath, dotted with cystoliths 

 above, lighter green beneath, margin minutely ciliolate ; petiole 

 slender, from one-third to half the length of the blade, puberulous. 

 Stipules ovate-lanceolate, thinly long-acuminate, up to 2 lin. long, 

 scarious with green midvein. Inflorescences axillary, androgynous, 

 consisting of an ebracteate cluster of numerous male flowers (often 

 about 15) in the axil of one stipule and a bracteate cyme of a few 

 (3 or more) female flowers in the axil of the other stipule, or sometimes 

 female only ; bracts much shorter than the flower. Male flowers 

 shortly stalked, perianth after expulsion of the anther boat-shaped 

 with a green setose acuminate apex, including the stalk about 1 lin. 

 long. Ovary naked, ovoid, densely hispidulous ; stigma linear, 

 recurved, barely half the length of the ovary. Achene greenish- 

 brown, ovoid with one edge slightly narrowly flattened, acute, tipped 

 with the remains of the style, about 1 lin. long, hispidulous. — Duly- 

 niodora acuminata, Wedd. Monogr. Urtic. 549. D. cuneata, Wedd. 

 in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 235^^. Droguetia umhricola, Engl. Ffl. Ost-Afr. 

 C. 164. Parietaria cuneata, E. Meyer ms. ex Wedd. in Ann. Sci. Nat. 

 I.e. (quoted in synonymy). 



Nile Land. British East Africa : Eldaira Ravine, 7000-7500 ft., \Vhi/ic ! 

 Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro ; Maraneu, 4800 ft., 

 Volkem,ilOOl 



Also in South Africa. 



