64 FLOKA OF JAMAICA PUea 



Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, St. Cruz, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Costa 

 Rica. 



Stems 1-7 cm. 1. Leaves 1-3 mm. 1. and br. Male floicers, with pedicel 

 to 2 mm. 1., perianth 1-2-1 -5 mm. 1., dorsal appendage almost obsolete, 

 in the form of a flat hairy tubercle. Female flcwer, perianth about 

 1 mm. 1., with triangular subequal segments. Acliene to -7 mm. 1., 

 ovate-elliptical, more or less muriculate, with somewhat transparent 

 margin. 



3. P. nudicaulis Wedd. in Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 3, xviii. '20S 

 dioecious, glabrous ; stem jointed, naked below ; leaves linear 

 lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, rather acute, entire, 3-nerved 

 basal nerves near the margin, reaching nearly to the apex 

 cysboliths on upper surface linear ; stipules very short, triangular 

 male cymes varying in length up to half as long as leaf; female 

 cymes not much longer than the petioles. Griseh. op. cit. 156 

 Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. pt. 1, 111. P. nudicaulis Wedd 

 13 lanceolata Griseh. loc. cit. Urtica nudicaulis Sw. in Vet 

 Handl. Stochh. vi. 36 (1785) & Fl. Ind. Occ. 311. (PI. 1, B, f. 3.) 

 Type in Herb. Mus. Brit, 



Broughton ! Masson ! Swartz ; Macfadyen ! Arntully ; Cinchona ; J.P. 

 1210, 1257, Hartl Content Road; Westphalia Road, 3000 ft.; Hope 

 Grounds, 700 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 5257, 7454, 8390. Cuba. 



Herb ; stein erect or ascending, 3-9 dm. high, simple or with few 

 branches. Branches slender, straight, erect, covered with oblong cystoliths. 

 Leaves 4-8(-10) cm. 1., 3-10(-14) mm. br. ; cystoliths on upper surface 

 very numerous, unequal, intricate ; on lower surface conspicuous, larger, 

 scattered, subequal, straight or curved ; petiole 3-5 mm, 1. ; stipules to 

 6 mm. 1. Male cymes to 4 cm. 1., male flowers "white " (Swartz), stalked ; 

 perianth in bud '7 mm. 1., dorsal appendage mucronate, about '1 mm. 1. 

 Female cymes "6-1 cm. 1. Acliene '6 mm. 1., smooth, roundish-ovate 

 slightly projecting beyond the median perianth-segment; median segment 

 75 mm. 1., somewhat rhomboid, striolate-keeled ; dorsal appendage level 

 with apex, lateral segments elliptical, striolate, -3- '4 mm, 1. 



4. P. lanceolata Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, i. 208 (1854); 

 monoecious, quite glabrous ; stem leafy below ; leaves narrowly 

 lanceolate, acuminate, entire, 3-nerved, basal nerves very near 

 the margin ; stipules persistent, ovate-triangular, blunt, mem- 

 branous ; cystoliths on upper surface punctiform ; cymes uni- 

 sexual or androgynous, shorter than the leaves ; achene ovate, 

 very minutely granulate. Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. -pi. 1, 110 

 (excl, syn. P. nudicaulis Griseh.). Urtica lanceolata Lam. Encyc. 

 iv. 639 (1797), (PI, 1, B,f, 4,) 



Wright [ Hispaniola, Dominica, St. Vincent. 



Stem 1-2 dm. high ; rhizome creeping ; stem erect, scarcely branching, 

 slender. Leaves 3-5 cm, 1., 3 '5-8 mm. br., green on upper surface, grey 

 beneath ; cystoliths very numerous on both sides, underneath larger, linear, 

 intricate ; petiole scarcely 1 mm. 1. ; stipules 2 ram. 1, Female cymes 

 consisting of a few clusters, many-flowered and dense ; peduncle longer 

 than the petiole. Achene ovoid, 75 mm. 1.; median segment as long as 

 achene, about twice as long as lateral segments ; dorsal appendage level 

 with apex. 



