Antidesma.]} URTICACEAE. 403 
with 5—4 roundish lobes. Between calyx and stamens, outside the latter 
and alternating with both, are 5 small stipitate obovate a ands or scales, 
connected at the bases — rudimentary petals. Stamens 5 (or 4), long 
exserted. Disk inconspicuous, with 5 small lami opposite the petaloid 
bodies. Ovary rudimentary, glabrous, with peltate stigma. Fem. /l. 
pedicellate along the branches of a solitary, axile, ab ee of 
C 
2—4‘ in length, the pedicels '/2—2‘’. Bracts linear, scarcely alyx 
less than 1, pubescent, tubular-urceolate, 5—8-cleft into rae obtuse 
1 mall annular. Ovary glabrous; style terminal. Drupe 
obes. isk 
reddish, little fleshy, 4—5‘ high, compressed, suboblique, the osseous 
amen irregularly ridged. Cotyledons suborbicular, as broad as the 
scanty albumen, 2 or 8 times as long as the radicle. — Youngest leaves 
speckled with a peltato-stellate pubescence. 
Hawaii! Maui! Molokai! Oahu! Nat. name: «Haa». 
B var. — Leaves obtuse, broadest at the base and subcordate, shining 
on both faces. 
Kauai! (Kn.). 
In 4-staminate flowers one filament often bears 4 anther-cells. 
2. A. pulvinatum, sp. ». — Young branches and inflorescence ochraceo- 
tomentose. Leaves ovate, 3!/2—6/ >< 2—3!/2‘, on pe of 6—9”, shortly 
acuminate, generally retuse or cordate at the base, Bae chartaceous, pale 
underneath and always with a villous patch in the angles of rib and veins, 
sometimes the veins tomentose throughout. Panicles short, branching only 
near the base, those with male flowers from projecting axillary spurs. Ovary 
tomentose. Drupe smaller, 2—3. Female calyx tomentose, 5—6- cleft. 
Style-branches very short, subentire. 
Hawaii! S. Kona; E, Maui! Hamakua; Oahu! Waianae. 
Orper LXXVIUL URTICACEAE. 
Flowers unisexual or rarely polygamous, usually in cymes or heads. 
Perigone calyx-like, of 1—5 divisions. en 
Segments and soouts to them, rarely reduced to fewer. Ant 
2-celled, opening lengthwise. Ovary free or adherent, 1-celled with 1 
ovule, aay 2-celled with 2 ovules of which one only comes to per-* 
fection, Style usually short or none, with 1 or 2 long or short stigmas. 
Fruit a 1-seeded indehiscent drupe or winged samara or small seed -like 
nut. Albumen fleshy or none. Radicle superior. — Trees, shrubs, herbs 
or climbers, furnished with stipules. Foliage and inflorescence very 
various. A scabrous surface and a milky juice or acrid or stinging 
secretions are yery comm 
A distributed over see whole eg oe ~— abundant within the tropics, 
large Order 
remarkable for the large number of fibre-plants it 
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