410 URTICACEAE. [ Urera. 
toothed, the inner teeth ae one of the outer defective. Ovary straight 
oblique, with ect ovule. Stigma subsessile, globose: penicillate, 
and axillary bicarinate stipules. Flowers articulate with the pedicels, 
single, or glomerate in axillary cymes. 
About 20 species, chiefly tropical, natives of America, Africa, Mauritius, Timor and the 
Hawaiian group. 
Leaves oblong or ovate; cymes corymbose , ‘ , ta 6 pisbectrbaipe a 
Leaves cordate-suborbicular; cymes paniculate : 2.0, Ka 
1. U. Sandwicensis, Wedd. in DC. Prod. XVI, Sect. I, p. 92. — 4 tall 
shrub or small tree, 8—16 ft. high, freely branching, not stinging. Leaves 
oblong, 6—8‘  2—3’, on petioles of 1—1'/2‘, acuminate, moderately 
eliptivs: contracting but obtuse at the base, wavy-crenulate in the upper, 
entire in the lower portion, chartaceous, glabrous, pale underneath, shortly 
tripli-nerved at the base, otherwise penni-nerved with 12—15 strong nerves 
on either side, all parallel, straight and nearly excurrent, but the lowest 
shorter than the others, the anastomoses in rectangular areoles. Stipules 
lanceolate, 11/2‘, soon sadneotia Flowers divecious. Cymes in the lower 
axils, often rising from the naked branch, regularly and enna dicho- 
tomous with divaricate branches, corymbiform, 11/2—3‘ in diam., with a 
peduncle of !/:—1‘, those of the female flowers shorter. Male perigones 
8—12 in a glomerule, subsessile, each 1/2 in Binpien pee sy ish # 
with 5—4 ovate glabrous segments. Anthers pale, large, 
their cells cohering at the apex. Fem. perigones mostly ‘ceviithes a 
by a deciduous cup of bractlets, shortly pedicellate, urceolate, 3—4- toothed, 
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faces, entirely enclosed by the perigone. — Villebrunea crenulata, Gaud. 
Hawaii! Waipio. : 
® var. — Leaves elliptico- to ovato-oblong, 6—8‘ < 3—4', crenato- 
serrulate, not triplinerved at the base, but the lowest pair much the 
shortest, the rib and nerves underneath essa — Var. mollis, Wedd. 1. c. 
Hawaii! Mauna Kea (Macrae), woods of -) 
r. — Leaves broadly ovate, with pi base, 4—7' X 2—5', on 
pen of 1!/2—2'/2‘, only penni-nerved with 8—12 nerves on either side, 
the lowest pair as long as the next and prominently Bombay shortly 
but acutely pointed, crenato-serrate, excepting the entire base, puede 
and smooth underneath, excepting a tuft of soft siete in the axils 0 
the lower nerves. — Var. glabra, Wedd. — Var. glabella, Wawra. — ree 
ra, Hook. & A 
Gaal Molokai! Kalae; Lanai! 
