Pilea URTICACE.E ^7 



globose-pyriform ; segments with a raised median line ending in connivent 

 tubercles. Achene '75 mm. 1., roundish-elliptical or roundish-ovate, 

 margined, muriculate, projecting beyond median segment of perianth by 

 one-quarter to one-third ; median segment as long as the achene, oblong- 

 elliptical with a light-coloured dorsal keel; lateral segments elliptical, 

 shortly acute, 



10. P. lueida Bhme Mus. But. Lugd Bat. ii. 48 (1856); 

 monoecious, shrubby, glabrous ; leaves small, of two forms, 

 cuneate, the larger leaf pinnatifid (1-3 lobes on each side), the 

 other minute, obovate, entire, somethnes the larger also entire ; 

 cymes small, consisting of a single few-flowered cluster, andro- 

 gynous or monoecious, with long stalks. Wedd. in DC. Prodr. 

 xvi.pt. 1, 119; Griseb. op. cit. 156, var. a and var. fS cuneifolia 

 (in part). Urtica lueida Sio. in Vet. Handl. Stockh. vi. 31 (1785) 

 & FI. Ind. Occ. 315. (PI. 1, B, f. 9.) 



On damp rocks, or banks in shady woodland ; Swartz ! Union Hill, 

 near Moneague, Prior ! Tyre, near Troy, 2400 ft. ; near Newmarket, 1200 

 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 8807, 9082 ; Union Hill, near Moneague, Britton d- 

 HoUick, 2739, 2788 1 



A small shrub, stem 1-2 dm. high, diffusely branching, without leaves 

 below; branches slender, leafy. Leaves 5-11 mm. 1., 1*5-4 mm. br., 

 shortly stalked, upper surface with large linear cystoliths. Peduncle 

 nearly as long as the larger leaf. 



Male floioers sessile or shortly pedicellate. Perianth "coloured" 

 (Swartz), about 1"5 mm. 1., globose, with triangular acute "green" dorsal 

 appendages about 'Smm. 1. i^'e^^iaZe /foiwe/^s sessile or subsessile ; perianth 

 segments with small brown teeth, median segment about as long as the 

 lateral segments. Achene elliptical, about 1*1 mm. 1. 



11. P. erenulata Urb. Si/mb. Ant. v. 308 (1907); monoecious, 

 somewhat shrubby, glabrous ; leaves of the same pair of very 

 unequal sizes, cuneate to narrowly obovate, the larger narrowdy 

 obovate or obovate-elliptical, apex rounded or obtuse, below^ long- 

 attenuated into the short petiole, triplinerved, crenate-dentate 

 near the apex, penninerved, the other minute, entire ; stipules 

 semiorbicular or lunate, '3- '5 mm. 1., persistent ; cymes small, 

 stalked, generally shorter than the larger leaf, somewhat capitu- 

 late. P. cuneifolia Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xviii. '21'2 

 (1852) & in DC. Prodr. xvi. pt. 1, 119. P. lueida var. cunei- 

 folia Griseb. op. cit. 156 (1859) (in part). Urtica erenulata 

 Sw. iyi Vet. Handl. Stockh. vi. 35 (1785). Urtica cuneifolia 

 Sw. op. cit. via. 70 (1787) 6: FL Ind. Occ. 319. (PI. 3, f. 1.) 

 Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Amongst moss on calcareous rocks ; Sicartz ! northern slopes of 

 Dolphin Head, Harris 1 Fl. Jam. 9238. 



Stern erect or ascending from a creeping base, 4-7 cm. ("-3 dm." 

 Swartz) high, with simple branches. Leaves larger 1-2 cm. 1., 4-8 mm. 

 br. ; stalk 2*5-1 mm. 1.; smaller 1-4 mm. 1., 1-2 mm. br. ; cystoliths 

 linear, much smaller and less conspicuous beneath. Cymes often con- 

 sisting of a single cluster; peduncle 1-2 cm. ]. Male flowers few in the 

 lowest part of the inflorescence, perianth "red" (Swartz), -75 mm. 1., 



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