Neraudia.} URTICACEAE. 415 
subcampanulate, 4-lobed or toothed. Ovary straight, almost as long as 
the perigone. Ovule oblique, ascending. Stigma spathulate, with one 
face and the margins papillose-ciliate. Achene ovate, smooth, compressed, 
invested by the rather fleshy adherent perigone. Albumen very scanty. 
Cotyledons ovate, subcordate, conduplicate, twice as long as the thick 
radicle. — A shrub with ahr alternate tripli-nerved leaves. Stipules 
axillary, large, entire. Flowers pedicellate, bracteolate, the globos 
te at the ends of simple, forked or dich okomionaly Coaunchinis 
xillary peduncles. 
A Hawaiian genus of a single species. 
1. T. latifolia, Gaud. Bot. Voy. Bon. tab. 94. — DC. Prod. XVI, Sect. I, 
p. 235 13, ~ A shrub, 4—8 ft. hi igh, with a viscid j ht sparingly dividing into 
stout branches, the youngest hispid but soon glabrate. Leaves o n petioles of 
3—9', ovate, 9—16' 5—-9‘, acute or hues tebe crenate, rounded 
at the base, chartaceous, dark green on both faces and glabrous, excepting 
a few hairlets on the nerves, tripli-nerved, the lateral nerves not reaching 
the middle of the margin, penni-nerved higher up, with rectangular areoles. 
tipules 2‘, acute. Glomerules of flowers generally arranged in repeatedly 
forking cymes, with one branch suppressed and the middle glomerule 
Sessile; the male cymes longer (3—5‘) and broader ( 5—6‘) than the 
female, which are also more crowded. Male glomerules 6—8” in diameter. 
Perigone 1'/2—2", the lanceolate segments hooded and obtuse or tuber- 
culate below the apex. Stamens shortly exserted, anthers large, white. 
Rudiment of pistil glabrous. Fem. glomerules 4—5“. Perigone 1”, 
orange-colored when mature. Style as long as the achene. — Wedd. 
Monogr. Urt. p. 142, tab. 3. — Wawra, in Flora, 1874, p. 547. 
rayines on es islands, bat } means common. It is the «Olond» of the 
a i perpo ¢ 
inferiorum paniculata, erocea»; yet, if such occasionally is the case, the species, as a 
Tule, is dioecious. The cymes at least seem always to be unisexual. 
14. NERAUDIA, Gaud. 
Flowers dioecious, clustered in the axils, without raised receptacle. 
Male perigone 4- -parted, the segments ovate, acute, thickish, valvate in 
the peaked bud. Stamens 4, exserted. Rudiment of pistil conical, woolly. 
em. perigone ventricose, contracted and beaked at the mouth, 4-toothed. 
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Ovary and deciduous, pubescent in its entire length. Achene ovoid, 
Ccrustaceous, expanded at the base into a broad orbicular lobate ~~ 
loosely enveloped by the globose fleshy perigone. Albumen almost n 
Cotyledons orbicular, cordate, plano-convex, twice as long as the ee 
