FeO 7 99 3 a P Ert eere eO REUS 
Pouzolsia. | CIX; URTICER. 187 
and although both are pouty described. as having 4-merous male flowers, Blume, Mus 
Bot. ii. 231, erp rae! says that cumbens is usually 5-merous, though sometimes 
4-merous. The gle Rockingham Bay specimen has rather larger leaves, the ore 
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Ww 8 pe 
some of the male flowers 3-androus or gie oh iting periant € 
canines, with a esr p n Mri uma id containing a a T un SE Shoul 
the 5-me vd 
Lo Bl., be on y erous varieti is 
Pariet ria oppositifolia, 2: Ma ell. esi ^ a appears to me to be a young 
lites speci of Pouzolsia indica var. alienata, Wedd., with E of the raus 
apposite, Mi. A d 8e, dd or broadly c oria at the base. Very similar s specim 
ur occasionally amongst the Indian o 
SE . MEMonrALIS, Ham.—Male perinsiti le alid abruptly 
bent in near the top, with an acute transverse pace angle, giving a 
perfectly flat or concave t to the cor 
2. P. quinquenervis, Benn. Pl. Jav 66. A perennial with 
que nding or erect stems i: 9f. ft. or more [y NOM branched except at 
e base, quite glabrous or the angles of the stems and margins and 
cala of the leaves very slightly popora Leaves on very short 
petioles or Popii sessile, the lower ones apain y^ xà r ones 
3- or 5-nerve ; the upper ones often smaller per vae ires , but 
not reduced to small adis as in some species. Flower-clusters rather 
loose, the two sexes usually mixed but in different pro rtions in 
different specimens. Male perianth IAM a i pes diameter, with a 
concave almost saucer-like A road apex, u we 5-merous. Female 
uiting perianth with 3 or 4 rarely 2 or 5 aa rU ipe and 
quite i wen Nut Bee smooth and shining.—Jf: aque- 
nervis, Ham.; Wedd. i DC. Prod. xvi. i. Sd Hoods, js d 
or Memorialis lythroides, T. Muell. Fragm. 94. 
Queensland. La agoons, Rockingham bay, Dad! ; table-land of South Alligator 
river aid. Upper Lind river. . Leichha rdt. 
The species is also in Sikkim, Khasia and Nepal. It is closely allied to the common 
P. hirta, differi riug in being much more glabrous, the petioles "a shorter or cxi 
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any, and the wings of the fruiting perianth opaque and apparently veinless. I o 
very near to M. Ee a, Benn., and aquatica, ia 1 in ys au 
leaves bein ng reduced to small bracts. With regard to the | (or ric) 
name, if it be t thought that that of Memorialis, Ham., was eerie published i 
Wallich’s Catalogue, that of Gonostegia, Turez., would take precedence over Miquel 
Hyrtanandra. 
14. PARIETARIA, Linn. 
(Freirea, Gaud.) 
Flowers polygamous, in axillary cymes often reduced to loose 
clusters, the external bracts more or less united at the base. Perianth 
lobes, with as man ny stamens, in the females with a more deve 
tube and smaller lobes without stamens. Ovary in the irod 
