186 CIX: URTICEÆ. [ Pouzolsia, 
13. POUZOLSIA, Gaudich. 
(Memorialis, Ham.; Gonostegia, Turcz.; Hyrtanandra, Miq.) 
owers moncecious or ius b dicecious, in sessile usually androgynous 
Flay with small us 
segments, valvate in the pe 
or obovoid rudimentary eui. d perianth usually ovate, con- 
tracted at the orifice, with a 2- or 4-toothed border, often enlarged in 
uit and sometimes winged but not succulent. Nut enclosed in the 
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opposite, entire or ver rely toothed. Sti ales Troe; usually per- 
sistent. Flower-clusters sxillaty, solitary or in interrupted spikes. 
The genus is spread over the — — of both the New and the Old World. 
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Australian species are both o Indian and paler the two sections 
into which t nus ide "m hic have pted as genera by 
ell as well as by several other botanists. I have, hawisie followed F. Muell 
reuniting them, the sole character derived from the sha male perianth is 
of litt impertance, and the ueteri in habit, di ipod marked i in the typical beh 
of each section, do not run thro e whole of the 
. Secr. 1. bidet iii i jei concave at the top, but rounded and 
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_ Stems diffuse. Leaves all alternate . . . . . . . . 1. P indica. 
` Secr. 2, Memorialis.—Male perianth-segments abruptly bent in near the top, 
with an acute transverse e orei angle. 
Stems elongated. Lower leaves opposite . . > . . .2. P quinquenervis. 
Sect. 1. Povzorst I4.— Male perlanth- segments concave at the top 
but rounded A obtuse on the back, giving the whole perianth à 
globular fo 
1. P. eine Catch Wedd. Monogr. Urt. 898, t. 18, and in DC. 
Prod. xvi. i. 220, tetraptera subvar. pentandra, Wi " 
perennial with the habit of a Parictaria, more or less iei ee or hir- 
sute, the stems usually from 6 in. to 1 ft. long. Leaves alternate or the 
lower ones rarel gen. shortly petiolate, ovate, acute, entire, we E 
times all u nder arely near ly lin. long, 3-nerve d, with the latera. 
long, sometimes ovoid and equally 8- or 10-ribbed, Pu others in in 
same axils with 4 of the ribs produced into FEMME ings, Nuts blac 
arnhemi Muell. Fragm. i 
. Austr teli js Range, Wilson; Sunday island, t iwi esa 
Queensland. erri de bay, Dallac hy. 
cT $ iai is DAE in East India and e Archipelago, with the male up bad et i 
8. e Sea Range specimens correspond to ^ ho P. procumbens, 
2099, n. n. 35 eg the y RN, Wight Ic. t. 2100, n. 43, the ier with 10-ribbe bed, the 
latter with item fruiting perianths, bot h correctly ot by Weddell to P. indica, 4 
