Pilea URTICACE.'E 77 



generally longer than the petiole. Griseh. op. cif. 158 ; Wedd. in 

 DC. Piodr. XVI. pt. 1, 155; TJrh. Synth. Ant. iv. 204. Urtica 

 repens Sio. in Vet. Handl. Stochh. viii. 61, /. 1, f. 1 (1787) c^' 

 Fl. Ind. Occ. '2S)L (PI. 3, f. 21.) 



Bancroft \ WuIlscJilacgel ; INIoueague, Priori 'Ba.th, G. Nichols \ Cuba, 

 Hispaniola, Porto Kico, Peru. 



Herb ; stems elongate, pubescent, rooting at nodes, simple or branching 

 sparingly, branches at length ascending. Leaves 1-3 cm. 1., 1-2 "5 cm. br. ; 

 petiole pubescent. Stipules 1-2 mm. 1. Cymes scarcely as large as a 

 small pea. Male flowers near the base of the c}Tnes, solitary or very few, 

 subsesiile or with pedicel 1 mm. 1. Perianth in bud globose, glabrous, 

 1 mm. 1. ; segments elliptical projecting above the apex of bud with a 

 ventral appendage covering apex ; anthers roundish. Female flowers 

 subsessile or shortly pedicellate, "5 mm. 1. Achenc '5 mm. 1., margined, 

 very minutely punctate, stigma very oblique, projecting about ^ beyond 

 the perianth ; longer perianth-lobe with a tuberculate dorsal appendage 

 below the apex, three times as long as the lateral lobes. 



35. P. tpoyensis Fawc. (0 Bendle in Journ. Bot. 1. 180 (1912) ; 

 monoecious, herbaceous, stems creeping, puberulous ; leaves of 

 the same pair more or less unequal, broadly ovate and sometimes 

 roundish, crenate-serrate in the upper half or two-thirds, or 

 sometimes almost entire, 3-nerved, with sparse pellucid hairs on 

 both sides, strigillose-puberulous on nerves beneath, membranous ; 

 stipules very short, roundish ; cystoliths linear, rather smaller on 

 the under surface ; cymes wHth peduncles longer than petioles, 

 paniculate, clusters close together and dense-flowered, male flower 

 solitary amongst female. (PI. 2, f. 7.) Type in Herb. X. York 

 Bot. Gard. 



Kocky wooded hill, Troy, Britton, 708 ! 



Leaves '5-1 cm. 1., '5- "9 cm. br., with the two lateral nerves produced 

 to one-half or three-fourths of their length; petioles 1-2*5 mm. 1, 

 Stipules about '5 mm. 1. Peduncles glabrescent, 5-7 mm. 1. Male flowers 

 subsessile. Perianth globulose, with few pellucid hairs, about '5 mm. 1. ; 

 dorsal appendages, those of a pair equal, one pair bluntly and shortly 

 triangular, the other linear, blunt. Female flower about '5 mm. 1., larger 

 segment '4 mm. 1., the lateral about half the length. Achenc (unripe) 

 white with orange-red stigma, about '5 mm. 1. 



36. P. Harrisii Urh. Symh. Ant. i. 299 (1899); mourecious, 

 creeping ; younger branches shortly pubescent ; leaves ovate, base 

 rounded or obtuse, apex obtuse or rounded, crenate from below 

 the middle, 3-nerved, with a few pellucid hairs on upper surface 

 or glabrate, underneath sparingly and very shortly pilose espec- 

 ially on nerves and margin; stipules rounded, persistent; 

 peduncle of cyme more than half as long to twice as long as 

 the leaf, bearing two to four approximate androgynous heads ; 

 achenes narrowly ovate. (PI. 3, f. 22.) 



Ahove 'Ba.th, Purdie \ Wilson I March \ Red Hills, Harris ! foothills on 

 S.E. of John Crow (Blake) Mts., Harris cD Brittonl Fl. Jam. 6881, 10,G83. 



Stems rooting; flowering branches erect or ascending 3-10 cm. 1., 

 branched or simple, glabrescent below, shortly pubescent above. Leaves 

 7-1*7 cm. 1., "5-1 cm. br. ; nerves reaching to about the middle; cysto- 



