REPOKT ON THE BOTANY OF JUAN FERNANDEZ AND MASAFUERA. 55 



URTICACE^E. 

 Urtica masafuerae, Philippi. 



Urtica masafuerce, Philippi in Bot. Zeit., 1856, p. G47 ; Wedd. in DC. Prodr., xvi. 1, p. 42. 



Masafuera. — Endemic ? Germain. 



A very distinct and elegant little plant ; but Weddell (1. c.) says : " Hue referenda 

 sunt, ni fallor, specimina qiuedam a beato Hilario in sylvis umbrosis prope Montevideo 

 lecta et in herb. mus. Par. servata. Hsec olirn pro varietatibus Urtica magellanicce habui, 

 et non erit mirandum si aliquando, iterum scrutata. ad eamdam sententiam redirent 

 botanici. Plauta montevidensis rnulto elatior est quam niasafuerensis foliisque majoribus 

 donata, serraturis seu crenis obtusis utrinque 4-6." 



Urtica glomerulaeflora, Steud. 



Urtica glomendcefl&ra, Steud. in Flora (1850), xxxiii. p. 257 ; DC, Prodr., xvi. 1, p. 57 ; Blume, Mu?. 



Bot. Lngd.-Bat., ii. p. 154; Wedd., Monogr., p. 94, 

 Boehmeria fernandeziana, <iay, Fl. Chil., v. p. 3G0. 



Juan Fernandez. — Endemic. In the mountain woods— Bertero. 



Moseley collected an Urtica, without lateral branchlets, in which the spherical clusters 

 of flowers are distinctly pedunculate, otherwise there are no prominent characters to dis- 

 tinguish it from the present. 



Boehmeria excelsa, Wedd. 



Boehmeria excelsa, Wedd. in Ann. Se. Nat, ser. 4, i. p. 202, Monogr. Urt., p. 352, et in DC. Prodr., 



xvi. 1, p. 200. 

 Procris excelsa, Steud. in Flora (1850), xxxiii. p. 261. 

 Splitgerbera demdata, Gay, Fl. Chil., v. p. 362. 

 Urtica excelsa, Bertero MSS. in Herb. New. 



Juan Fernandez.— Endemic. In shady woods along the mountain streams— Bertero ; 

 Cuming; Reed; Moseley. 



Bertero states (Ann. Sc. Nat,, xxi. p. 347) that this is a tree ten to twenty feet high, 

 called " Manzano " by the natives. 



Parietaria debilis, G. Forst. 



Parietaria debilis, G. Forst., Fl. Ins. Aust. Prodr., n. 387 ; Wedd. in DC. Prodr., xvi. i. p. 235« 



(varietates a micrantha et @ gracilis). 

 Freirea erecta, Philippi, Fl. Atacam., p. 49. 

 Freirea fernandeziana, Steud., Nomencl. Bot. 

 Urtica fernandeziana, Steud. in Flora (1850), xxxiii. p. 259. 



Juan Fernandez. Bertero; Reed; Moseley. 



A very widely dispersed plant, often occurring only as a weed of cultivation or an 

 escape therefrom. 



