Pseudomorus.] URTICACEAE. 405 
eR. gen Phrase Decaisne, in Brongn. Voy. de la Cog. p. 212, tab. 47. — 
DC. Prod. XVII, 198. — A small tree, 20—30 ft. high, the young branches 
softly gray- serra Leaves distichous, ovate-oblong, 4—6‘ X 1'!/2—2’, 
on petioles of 4“, long acuminate, closely serrulate, condaie and often 
oblique at the base, tripli-nerved, with the lateral nerves extending beyond 
the middle, chartaceous, very rough and papillose on the upper face, 
silky -tomentose underneath when young, but sparingly pubescent when 
‘old. Stipules lanceolate-acute, 21/2“. ai compound, divaricately 
branching, short, about 4 long and 6—9” broad, on a short peduncle 
of 1“, carrying male, female and hhertidphecditis flowers. Male fl. 
Perigone 1!/2, pubescent, 5-parted to the base, the lobes conchoid, some- 
what obtuse, imbricate, with the scarious margins induplicate. Stamens 
as long as the lobes, lk with subulate filaments and obtuse anthers. 
Ovary obovate, hairy, wikhidik style. Fem. fl. Perigone %/1“’ high, 5-fid to the 
middle with lobes imbricate. Ovary 2-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell. Drupe 
void, 2“, puberulous, little fleshy, black with crustaceous putamen. Coty- 
ledons éblong, folded, at a right angle with the short radicle. — Wight 
Ic. Pl. Ind. 1990. — Celtis Amboinensis, Willd. — Trema coipeasrsiig 
Blume. — 8. velutina, Planch. in Ann. Se. Nat. Ser. 3, X, 
S. argentea, Benth. 
Oahu! woods of Manoa and of the northern slope Hd Pale Molokai! Mopuleh 
The tree, which was not hitherto known to grow 0 e Hawaiian Isla. set a Walely 
spread through southern India, Malaysia, China on pepieal Australia, and hae also 
been found on the Viti group and on Uvea, or Wallis Island. S. Tahitensis, Nad., from: 
Tahiti, does not seem to differ. 
2. PSEUDOMORUS, Bureau. 
Monoecious (and dioecious ?), the ag ers in unisexual spikes. Male fl. 
Perigone 4-parted, the segments ovate, imbricate, at last patent. 
Stamens 4, the filaments inflected in ane bud, elastic, the anthers in- 
the segme 
1 pendulous campylotropous ovule. Stigmas 2, elongate- filiform, papillose 
on the inner face, long persistent. Drupe naked, fleshy, suppo ane at 
the base by the waehiangee perigone, the endocarp almost woody. 
subglobose, with a thin testa. Albumen almost none. Embryo globoso- 
short deciduous lateral stipules. Flowers in spikes with peltate bractlets. 
A genus of a single variable species which has been found in Australia, Norfolk Island, 
New Bee and the H Hawalion Islan nds. 
. P. Brunoniana, Bureau, in DC. Prod. XVI, 249. — A small tree or 
A rub, about 12 ft. high. Stipules triangular to lanceolate, quite 
to—2, Leaves distichous, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, 2! is-—-bi XxX 
