ae APT e eee 
Australina. | CIX. URTICER, 189 
especially on one side and persistent. Nut enclosed in the persistent 
perianth.—Diffuse or prostrate branching perennial dd with the. 
habit of Parietaria. Leaves petiolate, alternate or arely oppose, 
crenate or obtusely toothed, membranous, 3-nerved. Stipule ules small. 
Besides me: tein species, one of which is also in New Zealand, "nt is a third 
in UM 
Stem Pen IM, Leaves bie mostly 2 to 4 lines diameter ^ A. seen 
ie ascending. Leaves, except the lowest, ovate, 1 to 2 in. long . 2. A. Muelleri 
l. A. pusilla, Gaudich. in Freye. Voy. Bot. 505. Stems filiform, 
creeping along or hanging from rocks, usually under ‘6 in. 1 D d 
ines 
diameter or rarely 4 in. when very luxuria ale flowers solitary 
2 toget er on a common peer about as lon e perianth, which 
od. xvi. i. 235°; Urtica "ril Poin Dict. t Sup. iv. 924; 
Australina Nove Zelandie and A. Tasmanica, Hook. £. Fl. Nov . Zel. 
i n 
ania. Circular Head and banks of the aedis Gunn; Macquarrie Harbour 
id. Hampshire hills, Milligan; South Port, C. Stua 
e species is also in New Zealand preserving eA same characters. I find in — 
axils 2 male peduncles each bearing 2 flowers and only 1 or 2 females, in others 
females and a à singlo male 1-flowered peduncle, or sometimes t he axils are wholly s 
or wholly fem 
A. Muelleri, Wedd. Monogr. Urt. 545, and in DC. Prod. xvi. 
E ogee A much stouter plant than A. pusilla, creeping at the base, 
with ascending or erect stems of 6 in. to 1 ft., a few of the lower leaves 
sometimes small and diodi, but those 3 the Fidis stems always 
ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or almost acute, coarsely crenate- 
toothed, 1 to 14 in. long. Male peduncles slit bearing 2 to 4 flowers 
all ee. in a whorl so as to resemble a flower, the perianth 
gre more hirsute than in A. p e flowers in dense 
ener 
sessile clüdteb, often numerous, in separate axils or on separate plants 
m the males, or rarely 1 or 2 in the male axils. Fruiting erianth 
} to $ li ine long.— Urtica Tasmanica, F. Muell. First Gen. Rep. 18 (as to 
the e Victorian plant , 
ctoria. Buffalo di Dandenong Ranges, Mount Disappointment, Delatite po 
Apollo Bay, etc., F. Mueller; who considers this as a variety only of A. seis but I 
ave seen no connecting form. 
SunTRIBE 9. UnxnEx.—Plants more or less armed with stinging 
hairs, Female perianth 4-lobed, 2 opposite lobes usually larger than 
the 2 others 
