408 URTICACEAR. [ Hesperoenide. 
oblong in outline, pinnatifid with acute or somewhat obtuse lobes. Stipules 
2, free, very large, rolled round the bud and imbricate, soon caducous 
Male fl. on thick SAO fem fl. on large globose receptacles, ae at first 
covered by 2 apathanenge bracts, the latter terminal. Male peri- 
gone of 2 ee Style simple or 2—3-fid. -- G. Forster, Pl. Escul. 
p. 23. — Trécul, Ann, Sc. Nat. Ser. 3. VIII, 109, tab. 4. 
ee, called «Ulu» by the natives, has accompanied the Polynesians 
ich 
orm the n oundary of its area, it never played so important a part in the 
household of the natives as it does with those of Tahiti ve other southern groups. Its 
fruiting season is short, from June to August, and the of preserving the sanaro aig 
not understood. While in the Viti Islands some twenty or song 
there is only a single one on the Hawaiian group, which, as it never matures seed, 
to be propagated by suckers. It cannot therefore be considered as fairly aketatet 
alt. h one meets with large numbers of it in Kona and Hilo ii, and else 
here, generally marking the place abandoned cultivati "The neient Ta 
ponds with the Hawaiian, but tian «Uto» different origi 
his § belongs a all 
tropical countries, but entirely iieettles in our flora common fig, F. Caries, has 
en in cultivation in two or t nd fruits well, but is 
et to the destructive attacks of a wood beetle — a pcb aig F. pais Ps the — 
Tu ia, F. reli, 
re’ . Asi 
and Ff. Wightiana, have also been i nirodu ar 
e island of Molokai a tradition is preserved of a poisonous tree which grew 
y n 
in power, when they wanted to get rid of obnoxious persons. As it is said to have bled - 
pie cut, it may have belonged to this Suborder, which in the Antiaris toxicaria includes 
of the most formidable poison trees. 
6. HESPEROCNIDE, Torr. & Gray. 
Flowers monoecious, in axillary clusters, with both sexes intermixed. 
ith 
stigma sessile, globose-penicillate, persistent. Achene ovate, compressed, 
closed in by the membranous perigone. Albumen scarce. Cotyledons 
aiictiantie. emarginate at both ends, about as long as the conical 
icle. — Annual herbs with hooked stinging hairs, opposite incised 
leaves, free lateral stipules, and bractless flowers which are articulate 
with thee pedicels. 
ie ee an SP eh : Pai second one Californian. It differs from Urtica in the tubular 
1. H. Sandwicensis, Weddell, in DC. Prod. x VI, Sect. I. p. 68. — Erect, 
1—2 ft. high, much branching, hispid all over with stiff, spreading, mostly 
barbed hairs, besides a short pubescence in the younger parts. Leaves 
ovate, small, 5—9" & ae —6", on petioles of 4—6“, coarsely and obtasely 
