414 URTICACEAE. [Cypholophus. 
tomentose or rather hispid, either dioecious, or monoecious and then the 
female heads occuping the upper portion of a branch, the male the lower, 
but not rarely both sexes in one glomerule. Bractlets minute. Male 
perigone reddish, acutely 4-fid to the middle or less. Stamens little 
exserted. Fem. perigones on a thick, at last fleshy receptacle, minutely 
2—4-toothed, the commonly uncinate stigma longer than the perigone. 
Fruit about ‘Jo. — Ineludes var. Gaudichaudii, Wedd. — Wawra, in 
Flora, 1874, p. 547. — Podeaeis albida, Hook. & A — P. Tahitensis, 
Wedd, in ce “Unt, (not in 
On all islands, at the outskirts or in clearings of the lower forests. biol variable as 
to caneseence of leaves — generally oni the pion white, but sometimes the nerves and 
veins also, rarely areoles and veins of a pale green. The bette ke» ped the natives, one 
of the two principal «kapa» planis. Not known from elsewher 
ar. — Leaves almost coriaceous, with strongly salient nerves and 
veins, all white tomentose like the areoles, bullose and rugose on the 
upper face, coarsely crenate, narrowing at the base. — Probably var. 
Meyeniana, Wedd. 
Oahu? 
12. CYPHOLOPHUS, Wedd. 
Flowers monoecious or dioecious. Male perigone 4-parted, the segments 
mucronate below the apex. em. perigone free, ventricose, unequally 
2—4-toothed. Stigma filiform, much curved, continuous with the ovary, 
hairy or plumose on the convex side. Adhiaie closely surrounded by the 
fleshy perigone, but not adherent to it. — Shrubs or trees, with opposite 
leaves and free axillary-lateral stipules., Flowers in axillary glomerules, 
with searious bracts 
A genus of 9 Malaysian and Polynesian species. 
1. C. macrocephalus, Wedd. in DC. Prod. XVI, Sect. I, p. 23510. — Leaves 
uneven-sided, ovate-oblong, sharply serrulate, membranous, scarcely rugose, 
hispidulous on the upper, softly pubescent on the lower face, one of a pair 
generally smaller than its mate and subcordate, with a shorter petiole. 
fl 
ndrogynous y 
sides confluent. Male perigones pedicellate. Mature fruit obovate and 
hi ey. of the achene thickened at the apex. — Var. mollis, Wedd. 
oehmeria mollis, Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4 I, 198. — B. 
. BL 
C to the Sandwich Islands, besides the Moluccas, by Weddell, 1. ¢., without 
reference to a collector. I know nothing about it, nor is it mentioned in Mann’s Enu meration. 
In appearance it is much like Pipturus albidus. 
. TOUCHARDIA, Gaud. 
Flowers dioecious, on globose receptacles. Male perigone 5-parted, the 
segments imbricate in the depressed bud. Stamens 5. Fem. perigone 
