E 
Boehmeria.] CIX. URTICER. 185. 
h 
neck minutely 4- toothed at the orifice. Nut sessile and completely 
enclosed in the perianth but free from it, the linear e sistent hirsute 
style protruding to about the length of the perianth itse 
N. S . Lord Howe's island near the base of Mount Li ingbird and sides of 
p rahe etn q vi m e.—The "i teness of the underside of the leaves recalls that of 
B.n but in t shape as well as in the inflorescence ge species is h more 
sid “allied to sn Norfolk island m. australis, Endl. 
12. PIPTURUS, Wedd. 
bed or stigma hirsute ne side, and deciduous after flowering. 
Fruit forming a small eid s globular REND) the slightly 
tboil perianths, however, quite distinct at the Seeds with a 
very scanty albumen.— Trees or tall shrubs. Prec alternate, entire 
or toothed, often white underneath, 3- or 5-nerved. Stipules axillary, 
deeply bifid, deciduous.  Flower-clusters axillary, solitary, or in 
un spikes 
he genus comprises E few species, dispersed over the Indian Archipelago, the 
Pacific Selenide: and the Mascarene group. ‘The only Australian species has the general 
LP) argenteus, Wedd.in DO. Prod. xvi. i, 995". A tree usually 
small but sometimes attaining 50 ft., the young branches and under- 
side of the leav ves ayi or white with a bere Fans tum. Leaves on 
and € erigi “dry in ried specimens.— Urtice argenteis 
Pont’ Prod ; R. propinquus, Wedd. Monogr. Urt. 447, t. 15 
Que vx pone. ead, 4. Cunningham ; Daw r, F. Mueller; Fitzro 
island, pre vray, C. Moore, ve others; Cape Yo. M Kennedy disci 
Daintree oak ham Bay, Dallachy ; j Bookham mpton, Dallachy, Bowman, Thoz 
N. S. W Richmond Pim 
The nedar is alle i in the Indian Pikea and in the Pacific islands. 
