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or without recurved prickles underneath, especially on the nerves : 

 cymes much branched, corymbiform ; female flowers generally 

 separated. Griseh. loc. cit. ; Wedd. torn. cit. 93. Urtica 

 frutescens foliis amplioribus <kc. Broivne Hist. Jam. 337. Urtica 

 arborescens baccifera Plant. PL Amei'. {Bnnn.) t. 260 k Ic. pict. 

 iued. V. 312. Urtica baccifera L. % PL ed. 2, 1398 (1762); 

 Jarq. Hort. Schttnhr. t. 387 ; Descourt. FL vi. t. 433. 



Wilson ! March ; Stony Hill ; Fawcctt ! Fl. Jam. 7177. West Indies, 

 S. America. 



Plant 3-13 ft. high, with stinging hairs. Leaves 1-3 dm. 1., 4-5-18 

 cm. br. ; principal veins G-8 on each side. Floicers dioecious. Fruit, 

 perigone very succulent, white or rose-coloured, '5 cm. 1. 



3. FLEURYA Gaudich. 



Annual herbs, often with stinging hairs. Leaves alternate, 

 stalked, toothed, 3-nerved at base, penniveined above ; stipules 

 connate in one, bifid, intra- 

 petiolar. Flowers monoe- 

 cious or dioecious in clusters 

 on paniculate cymes ; clus- 

 ters unisexual or androgy- 

 nous ; panicles solitary, 

 axillary. Bracts few, Male 

 flowers : perianth 4-(5-)par- 

 tite, subvalvate or slightl}' 

 imbricate. Stamens 4(-5). 

 Ovary rudimentary. Female 

 flowers : perianth-segments 

 4, imbricate. Ovary at 

 length oblique ; stigma 

 at length hooked ; ovule 

 erect from the base. Achene 

 oblicjue, compressed, ex- 

 serted. Seed of same form, 

 with scarcely any endo- 

 sperm ; cotyledons bread. 



Species 8, widely distributed through the tropics and extending 

 into South Africa. 



Fig. 19. Fleurya sestuans Gaudich. 



A, Leaf and inflorescence. 



B, Male flower hud. 



C, Male flower. D, Fruit. 



F. sestuans Gaudich. in Freyc. Voi/. But. 497 (1826) c1- in 

 Vol/. Bonite, t. 83 ; Griseh. FL Br. W. Lid. 154; Bak. in Rcfiuj. 

 Bot. t. 38; Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. j^t. 1, 71. Urtica testuans 

 L. Sp. PL cd. 2, 1397 (1762). (Fig. 19.) 



Calej/ 1 Burlington, Harris ! Fl. 

 continental America, tropical Africa. 



Jam. 5981. West Indies, tropical 



