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552 URTICACE.^ (Brown). [Pouzolzia. 



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blades 1-3| in. long, §-2 in. broad, ovate, acuminate, rounded or 

 broadly cuneate at the base, toothed at the margin ; teeth f-1 lin. 

 long, 1^-3 lin. broad, triangular, acute or subacute; more or less 

 pubescent or somewhat pilose with soft hairs on both surfaces, but 

 usually more densely so beneath; stipules 2-4 J lin. long, broadly 

 ovate at the base, subulate-acuminate, ciliate, and pubescent on the 

 midrib beneath, membranous, brown, persistent ; flowers in small 

 axillary clusters, sessile or the males very shoi'tly pedicellate, uni- 

 sexual, many male and one or a few female flowers in the same 

 cluster, greenish-white, mingled with minute membranous brown 

 bracts; male flowers somewhat turbinate-subglobose and abruptly 

 and shortly pointed in bud, 3-4-lobed to rather more than half-way 

 down, pubescent or subpilose outside ; lobes f lin. long, ovate, 

 abruptly and shortly subulate-pointed, deeply concave; stamens 

 3-4, longer than the perianth ; rudimentary ovary obovoid, semi- 

 transparent or watery; female flowers somewhat flask-shaptd, 

 tubular, minutely 2-3-toothed at the apex, with numerous ribs on 

 the inflated part when in fruit, pubescent outside ; ovary com- 

 pressed ovoid; style much exserted, 2 lin. long, filiform, densely 

 papillose-pubescent ; achene enclosed in the enlarged perianth, 1 lia. 

 long, compressed ovoid, acute, smooth and shining, whitish or pale 



yellowish-white. Wedd 

 ' specimen quoted, 

 PJl, Documente, 

 Wedd. in Ann. 

 JBhime, Mtis. Boi 



s, E. Mey 



Maraarocci 



SceJirneria procndioides. 



Eastf.rx Regiox : Traiiskei ; forests axoiiiKl Kejitani, Mhs Pc[/Ier, 733 ! Ponrlo- 

 land ; between Umtata River and St. Johns River, Brege I Zuhilaud ; Sebundini, 

 JIaygarik in Jkrh. Wood, 7910 ! and without precise locality, Gerrard^ 1622 ! 



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VI, AUSTRALINA, Gaud. 



Floicers unisexual, the sexes intermingled on the same plant. 



Malefioicers with a hract-like perianth, tubular helow, open above, 



with the margins folded together or united in bud ; stamen 1 ; 



anther inflexed in bud. Female flowers compressed-ovoid, "with the 



perianth so closely investing or united to the ovary that it appears 



absent, sometimes two flowers cohere; ovary 1-celled, with 1 erect 



basal ovule; stigma shortly filiform, more or less coiled to one 



side. Achene compressed-ovoid, keeled, with a thin crustaceous 

 pericarp. 



Annual herbs; leaves alternate, stipulate ; floweis in aessile axillary clustera, 

 with the sexes intermingled or sometimes all the flowers of a cluster female. 



Dtstbib. Species about 10, in Tropical and South Africa, Socotra^ Australia 

 iiud Xcw Zealand. 



