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Fleurya.| URTICACEAE, 409 
serrate or incised, quite thin, sparingly and shortly pubescent on both faces. 
Stipules small oblong. Clusters of flowers sessile, those of both sides 
confluent and together not exceeding 2'/2 in diam. Fem. fl. subsessile, 
less than 1“ when full grown, hispid. Male fl. very few, smaller, less 
hispid. Achene pale and smooth. — Urtica Sandwicensis, Wedd. Monogr. Urt. 
Hawaii! on the high plains between Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, at an elevation of 
5000—6000 ft. The plant makes altogether the impression of being an introduce weed, 
it growing gregariously in the rich soil sore by the wash from the mountains, in . 
places where the wild cattle congregate. The difference between it and the Californian 
hg amounts to — and Iam Etec to think that it came with Vancouver's cattle 
from the- American t 
7. FLEURYA, Gaud. 
lowers monoecious or dioecious. Male fl. Perigone 4—5-parted, um- 
bilicate in the bud. Stamens 4—5. Fem. fl. Perigon 4-parted or lobed, 
the inner segments generally larger. Ovary at Tare oblique, with 1 ob- 
Achene oblique, compressed, generally margined and tuberculate, breaking 
away from the pedicel together with the perigone. Embryo as in Hes- 
peroenide. — Annual herbs, mostly stinging, with alternate serrate leaves 
and bifid axillary stipules. Flowers bractless, single, or clustered in 
dichotomous, unilateral, axillary cymes or cymose panicles. 
Il genus, spread over the tropics of both Worlds. 
F. interrupta, Gaud. — DC. Prod. XVI, Sect. I, p. 74. — Erect, 1 ft. 
high, with few branches, sparingly hispid. Leaves ovate, 2—4/< 1—3', 
on petioles of 1—4', acute, coarsely serrate, often subcordate or truncate at 
the base, thin, pale underneath, with few hairlets. Stipules bifid beyond 
the middle, the lobes setaceous. Flowers in distant pig Rie 
along a naked, filiform, simple or shortly coca rhac —10' 
length, the glomerules often evolute in seorpioid cymes. pels jl. as 
subsessile, with white or pinkish 4-parted perigone, soon caducous. Fem. fl. 
with 4-toothed perigone, the lateral teeth finally — the upper one 
keeled. Stigma 1/2 the sega of the achene, hooked at the apex, with 
2 rudimentary append at its base chene 1“, pale, ovate, much 
compressed, thick - arehast cheltaiats on the depressed faces. — Mann, 
Enum. no. 425 
Collected by hie: I only know of it as a not common garden ga — The species 
extends - Ceylon and S. India through Malaysia into Pols esia to Tahiti. Athoush 
it bears bad dah cae elsewhere for stinging, the plant ecbocien at the Islands 
seems to : harmle 
8. URERA, Gaud. 
Flowers tgs rarely monoecious. Male perigone colored, of 4—5 di: 
visions, umbilicate in the bud. Stamens 4— 5, inflected in the bud, with 
reniform obtuse citi Ovary aitininiiey. Fem. perigone 4-lobed or 
