154 CIX. URTICER. 
deciduous. Flowers small, in cymes clusters or heads, rarely gt 
the clusters or heads often racemose or Spec the receptacle of 
heads araj ay shaped and often bordered: by an involucre of 
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me important grou of this Order have not yet been worked up for the Panels 
the subjoined tribes and their characters have therefore reference chiefly to the ae 
Australian genera; the Urticee proper have, however, been very carefully monographed 
dell. i on 
by Wedde es the name of eystoliths to — a eka concreti 
e epidermis of the leaves, which, when line specimens the 
aspect of appressed superficial hairs, although really within piia ean nee of the leaf. 
The form of these he abel has iua some Urticeze been m n se of as a specific character, 
Trise 1. Celtidese.—Flowers often polygam pened i ailfany or lao . Fila- 
ments short, erect or slightly endi in A bud. Styles or style- iiid 2, ` equal. 
Ovule pendulous. Embryo curved, the cotyledons often folded over the incumbent 
REL Trees or shrubs, 
Flowers polygamous, the fertile ones frequently hermaphro 
© Perianth-segments imbricate in the bud. Style- eae ce 
styles) linear-oblong or dilated, truncate or 2-lobed . . 1. CELTIS. 
Flowers polygamous, the fertile ones frequent] herma phro 
i u^ le- branches (or 
styles) short, orae ^: menda vein on the small fru . LREMA, 
owers unisexual (mo us). nth- — ram aa in 
the bud. Style- aai. (or styles) PaA ý 3. APHANANTHE. 
Trp — Flowers unisexual in dense spikes or heads, or crow owded oñ Z 
orinebsd in in g fesi re receptacle. fuk erect or slightly incurved in the bud. Sty 
ed. Embryo curved oF 
undivided Ovule pendulous or laterally attach 
straight. Trees rere with a smth jusi 
Flowers lobular cd ^d -shaped receptacle 
; deed at a small a oce ce by sm P nd s " . 4. Ficus. 
xir in globular heads on a rs rec scape. "Fruta syncarp 
rmed of the nt ye Heshy perianths and re wien 5. CuDRANIA. 
wded on a ari ad receptacle, fe males soli- 
Mea Fruit a vog mass consisting of the consolidated invo- 
lucre and pericarp, the tips of the bracts alone . 6, ANTIARIS. 
Tri —F lowers unisexual in dense spikes or heads. Stamens 1n Se 
in the ud eina usually direi Ovule pendulous pe latoraliy attached. Em- 
bryo in ncurved on innoluia, Trees or shrubs, very rarely he 
p ain rob ial vits anil orifice St fe branches elon ated 7. MALAISIA. 
ale flowers in dense spikes. Females few in very small spike 
or heads, their perianth of 4 segments. St gie -branches elongated 8. PsEUDOMORUS 
Flowers in globular paps em us heads. Style elongated with 
, small brauch or tooth at the base. Stem herbaceous. . . . 9. FaroU^ 
UNES 
