ces CIX. URTICER, 191 
*2. U. urens, Linn. ; Wedd. in DO. Prod. xvi. i. 40. An annual with 
erect or ascending branched stems rarely bovo. 1ft. high, glabrous 
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the same structure as in U. inei incisa, except that the ner segments of 
the female ire are ciliate on the margin and usually bear a single 
dorsal stinging hai 
European weed now ors near bie in various parts of Victoria, 
Tasmania, and S. Aus 
17. LAPORTEA, Gaudich. 
Flowers dicecious or mon neecious, clustered but distinct. Male 
pevianth "Mélitéieod: -globular in the bud, deeply divided into 4 rarely 
segments. Stamens 4, rarely 5, with a rudimentary pistil; anther- 
cells reniform. Female perianth fh 4 lobes or segments, the 2 inner 
ones usually larger than the outer and dissimilar from each other. 
Stigma simple, elongated, i ed. Nut more or less compressed and 
. rigid de hairs. Leaves alternate. Stipules entire . or bifid, 
_ deciduous.  Flower-clusters in axillar or, in dw" not Australian, 
terminal vice usually shorter than the leaves 
The species are distributed over the warmer regions of the New and s Old World, 
but m i in the Indian eem nus and Pacific Islands, one Mt iun lly A ous 
is, however, North American and extratropical. e Australian: species 
the fem rianths very un 
Leaves eni ovate, vordat i the base, ee ot e €— 
cent underneath . 1, L. gigas. 
.. Leaves jm not “cordate, neatly; glabrous . 2. L. photiniphylla. 
.. Leaves broad, more or des pie at LM base, pubescent o or : 
leis on both s si n 3. L. moroides. 
l. L. gigas, W Wedd. Monogr. Urt. 199, t. 3 and 4, and in DC. Prod. x 
pL 7A large tree, exceeding 80 ft. the trunk erect, with a soft j Miey 
3 fibrous wood and smooth ash-coloured bark, supported at the base by 
