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184 CIX. URTICEJE. [ Elatostemma. 
Var. sessile. Male flower-heads sessile or eid so, but with the leaf-venation and 
iie: surface of Æ. reticulatum.—Macleay river, Beckler 
sire aves 6 to 8 in. ung and b Broader t van e the other M quur Flower- 
heideon n long Cirta .—E. sessile var. grande, W n DC. Prod. = 418.— 
Lord Howe’s isla net "Milne , M'Gillivray, €. Moore. 
I have little doubt but that all the Mei belong to one species, SA is allied to the 
E. sessile, Forst., o the South Sea islands, but without the marked almost triplinerved 
venation of that species. Fed de approach to it is in some of the leaves of t e Lord 
Howe's island plants, but ev s shorte 
= and the peduncles are » cu aiot long. The Macleay river specimens hari the 
e heads, but not the leaf-venation of Æ. sessile; its male flowers are 5-merous, not 
wintm 
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2. E. stipitatum, Wedd. in Ann. Sc. ves ser. 4, i. 190; Monog 
322, t. 9 D, f£. 11-16, and in DC. Prod. xvi. i. 186. A ‘small V edd 
diffuse or prostrate herb, the stems sim ivi or branched, rooting at the 
base, a few inches or rarely nearly a foot long. Leaves quite sessile, 
vlt as well as the stems more or less hispid. ower-heads Pul T 
pedunculate, the pat 2 to 8 lines or very rarely nearly 4 lines diameter, 
e much narrower than in Æ. reticulatum. Flowers nearly as m 
that species. Female heads still smaller. 
N. S. Wales. Hastings and Clarence rivers, Beckler ; Mount Lindsay, W. Hil. 
SuB E 2. Borumertz£.—Plants not stinging. Female pe 
dide ‘isha tubular "n winutely "vd enclosing or din » the 
ovary, or rarely minute or no 
1l. BOEHMERIA, Jacq. 
Flowers moncecious or diccious, in globular usually unisexual 
gne. math small scarious bracts. Male e perianth of 4, rarely 3 or 5, 
r lobes, valvate in the bud. Stamens as many as periant th- 
MN pom a central clavate or globose rudimentary pistil. Female 
tubular, compressed, more or less dilated below, usually 
tracted at the orifice, w ith a 2- or 4-toothed border. Nut dry, in included 
in the persistent eM free or more or JE adnate to it, sessile OF 
more or less X llela C Rd or sma we inves alts ade : 
oS petiolate, ‘eats toothed, Biipules usually deciduous. 
lower-clusters axillar , either sessile and solitary or in simple inter- 
nicles. 
rupted spikes or short ranched ^ 
e genus is pe over the tropical a subtropical regions of both the New cd 5 
The 
the Old World. cies as as yet been detected on the main land of Australia ; 
subjoined one is endemic in Lord Howe's island. 
1. B. calophleba, F. Muell. e vii. 11. A bushy shrub of 
6 to 8 ft., the branches minutely pubescent with appressed a 
Leaves alternate, ovate-lanceolate, somewhat acuminate, obtusely 
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