Fleurya] cxyi. urticace^. 989 



2. F. grossa Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Xat., Ser. 4, i. p. 183 (1854), 

 and in DC, I.e., p. 7G. 



Urtica grossa E. Meyer ex Drege in Flora 1843, Bes. Beig. 2, 

 pp. 136, 148, 150, 228. 



PuNGO Andongo. — An annual herb, erect or ascending at the base, 

 very violently stinging. On a rich soil in rocky places near Catete ; 

 fl. Feb. 1857. No. 6273- An erect herb, annual. 3 to 5 ft. high, 

 armed with very vehemently stinging bristles ; flowers monoecious, 

 greenish, the female ones on the upper part of the stem. In somewhat 

 shady primitive woods in Mata de Pungo, growing in masses ; fl. 

 and unripe fr. 14 April, 1857. No. 6295. 



3. F. podocarpa \Yedd. in DC, I.e., p. 76. 

 Var. fulminans. 



A marshy stoloniferous herb, probably lasting throughout the 

 year, 1 to 5 ft. high, sometimes almost an undershrub, of two 

 difierent forms in respect of the inflorescence, more or less pilose 

 with violently stinging hairs ; stolons epigamous and hypogamous ; 

 sap watery; hairs of the stem whitish, bent down and adpressed; 

 leaves alternate, ovate or deltoid-ovate, acuminate at the apex, 

 subtruncate or somewhat wedge-shaped at the trinerved base, 

 penniveined, membranous, reticulate, more or less pilose, dentate, 

 deep green above, paler beneath, 2 to 4 in. long by 1 J to 2i in. 

 broad ; basal lateral nerves slender, erect-patent, reaching the 

 margin about the middle of the side of the blade ; penniveins 

 alternate, slender, 5 or 6 on each side in addition to the basal 

 nerves ; reticulation delicate , cystoliths linear on the lower face, 

 not conspicuous, rather punctiform on the upper face ; teeth more 

 or less obtuse, minutely apiculate ; petioles rosy, ranging up to 

 3i in. long ; stipules lanceolate or filiform from a broader base, 

 4 to i in. long • flowers monoecious : the male ones racemose- 

 spicate on fleshy rosy or purplish limp erect- spreading or 

 ascending peduncles, sometimes in clustered panicles developed on 

 a naked scape which proceeds from the rhizome, sometimes 

 cymose-paniculate in the axils of the leafy stem, fulminating 

 on touch, scape sometimes 2 to 2f ft. long ; peduncles of the 

 male inflorescence 1 to 12 in. long, more or less pilose, the 

 inflorescence ^ to 10 J in. long, the clusters of flowers i to f in. 

 in diameter, subsessile or on short pedicels, the ultimate pedicels 

 very short ; the male perianth usually 5-partite, rarely 4-partite ; 

 the segments equal, ovate-oblong, concave, uninerved, valvate in 

 aestivation, yV in. long, whitish green, rosy outside, sparingly 

 setose ; stamens usually 5, rarely 4, whitish, transversely 

 furrowed, elastic ; anthers white, before the opening of the flower 

 surrounded with the articulate-hyaline filaments resembling the 

 annulus of ferns, exploding the pollen in an elastic manner with 

 a momentary development of heat ; ovary globose, rudimentary ; 

 female flowers several together, sessile, in very loosely racemose 

 clusters, on closely reflected peduncles which are almost adpressed to 

 the stem; style long, rosy, terminating in the truncate stigma; fruit 

 often produced underground, compressed, obliquely elliptical. 



