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The dicecious flowers and the form of the leaves would 
separate the above two species from the generality of Urere ; 
although as a section only. Whether this be the same section 
as that suggested by Gaudichaud for some Madagascar and 
Mauritian species under the name of Obetia, I have no means 
of judging. The female perianth is very different from that 
deseribed by Endlicher in his sectional character of Urera, 
which indeed does not agree with the generality of Urere, 
where the perianth is very variable. It is better described by 
Gaudichaud, excepting that, even in the original U. baccifera, 
it is rather 3-4-lobed than 3-4-partite, and in our species the 
divisions are no more than short teeth. The rhaphides having 
the appearance of hairs, mentioned by Dr. Hooker in the Flora 
Antarctica, are very conspicuous in both the above species. 
1. Fleurya sp.—Urtica mitis, E. Mey. Pl. Dr. eus. ?— Cape 
Palmas, Ansell; a small specimen, with a single male cyme. 
2. Fleurya sp.—Urtica Caravelhana, Schranck ex Mart. Herb. 
Fl. Bras. p. 93. n. 84.—Urtica hirsuta, Vahl, Symb. 1. p. 
77 ?— On the Quorra, at Patteh and Addaenda, Vogel ; St. 
Thomas, Don. 
3. Fleurya sp.—Urtica villosa, Salzm. Pl. Bras. exs.—U. hir- 
suta, Vahl ?—Fernando Po, Vogel. 
The genus Fleurya, if made to include Laportea, is a natural 
One, and readily distinguished from Urtica, whether by its al- 
ternate leaves, by the shape of the ovary and the uncinate 
style, the stigmatic portion being more or less reflexed. End- 
licher, indeed, in reducing Gaudichaud’s genera to the rank of 
Sections, has suppressed this also, but evidently through inad- 
vertence, because he had himself, in another place, established it 
as a distinct genus, under the name of Schychowskya, adopted 
as such in his Genera Plantarum. Some species, especially the 
South American and African ones, appear to be dicecious, or 
nearly so: the N. American F. Canadensis and the Oceanic 
-. F. ruderalis are, however, certainly monecious. In all, the 
male inflorescences are much more compact than the female, the 
male calyx, as in other genera, varies in the number of its 
sepals and stamens 4 or 5; the female flower has, like Urtica, 
