118 -URTICACEE. 
Fruit a drupe.—Trees or shrubs :— 
Leaves glabrous or softly pubescent ; 
male-sepals imbricate; cotyledons 
: broad é . : ; ; 
Leaves scabrous; male-sepals indu- 
plicate-valvate ; cotyledons narrow 
Flowers usually SPARES HOT with 
digitate leaves . : : F 
Anthers in bud inflexed ; ‘atyle undivided 
or none; ovule erect :— 
Leaves and stem with stinging hairs.— 
Herbs with alternate leaves and connate 
stipules 
Leaves and stems without stinging hairs :— 
Female perianth 3-5-partite or obsolete ; 
stigma penicillate; flowers in cymes 
or clustered on a fleshy receptacle :— 
Leaves opposite ; flowers minute, in 
dense cymose heads 
Leaves alternate ; flowers on a fleshy 
receptacle ; female penenh minute 
or obsolete . : : ° 
Female perianth tubular, cuontly toothed 
or subentire, enclosing the achene :— 
Fruiting perianth dry, membranous ; 
stigma filiform :— 
Stigma eater ae or tall 
trees 
Stigma jointed to apex of ovary, 
deciduous—Herbs or under 
shrubs. : 4 : 
Fruiting perianth more or _ less 
fleshy :-— 
Stigma sessile, subpeltate, 
piliste <'". .: . s : 
Stigma penicillate : : 
Female perianth none ; flowers minute, 
in small cymose globose heads; 
stigma penicillate—A shrub with 
the leaves snowy-white beneath. . 
2, CELTIS. 
3. TREMA 
4. CANNABIS. 
5. GIRARDINIA. 
6. PILEA. 
7. ELATOSTEMA. 
8. BoEHMERIA. 
9, PoUZzoUziA. 
10. VILLEBRUNEA 
11, DEBREGEASIA. 
12. Maovtta. 
