416 URTICACEAE. | Neraudia. 
conical radicle. — Shrubs with a milky (?) sap. Leaves alternate, entire, 
triplinerved, Stipules short axillary. 
e peculiar disk- like expansion of the lower half of the achene, 
pe 
which remains nearly stationary, appears as if it were immersed in it. The presence of 
a white milksap rests upon Gaudichand’s sea heit I do not remember to have ob- 
erved it. 
. N. melastomaefolia, Gaud. Bot. Voy. Freye. p. 500, tab. 117. — 
$e Prod. XVI, Sect. I, p. 235 16. — A low shrub, 3—5 ft. high, branching 
from the base, the spreading, rather nodose branches pubescent with 
appressed silky hair, Leaves oyate or elliptico-oblong, 3—6/ >< 1-—2'/2', 
on petioles of !/2—2”, short or long acuminate, entire, thin, chartaceous, 
tripli-nerved, the lateral nerves extending to the upper fourth of the 
blade, penni-nerved beyond, glabrous above, enum gray - pubescent 
stilbene at least along the nerves, or glabrate. Flowers sessile, 
apparently braces, qanereets 3—10 in a cluster. Male perigone 2”. 
Fem. perigone 1—1'/2", globose and 2—3” in diameter when pam 
i Ved 
4, p. 546. 
ovata, Gaud. and N. glabra, Meyen. — Boehmeria melastomaefolia, Hook. 
& Arn. — B. glabra, Steudel. 
On all islands, on dry slopes of the lower regions. 
6 var. sericea. — Leaves silvery underneath with appressed ee me ; 
panes as before. — N. sericea, Gaud. }. c. and Bot. Bon. tab. 1 
Oabu! Waianae Mis. 
{ var. parvifolia. — Leaves close and small; about 1’ long, on petioles 
of 1—2”, acute at both ends, oo sone the nerves, otherwise 
glabrous. Clusters few- to 2-flowered. 
Oahu, Waianae Mts. (Wawra, 1. ¢.). 
» 
6 var. Kauaiensis. — Leaves large ovate-rhomboidal, 5—6/ >< 21/2—3'; 
on petioles of 1'/2‘, suddenly acuminate, slightly contracting, but rounded 
and even retuse at the base, short y puberulous and green underneath. 
Flowers numerous in a cluster, pubescent, 
Kauai! (Kn). 
at. name of the species: «Oloa» or «Maoloa». . 
2. N. Kahoolawensis, sp. n. — Leaves broad obovate, 1/2’ >< 1’, on 
petioles of 1/2’, rounded and sbiatty sani at the apex, chartaceous, 
gray -tomentose but not silky underneath, the hairlets short, not appressed. 
— si rebar very few, mostly single in the axils, to’ ses 
island 
on the small epee by Mr. Lydgate; a singl IE scrap 
only eal collected. but sufficient to genus. A most ae 
ng find being 
only speciality from that thee island, the yegetation of which, however, eA that 
of Nines, is very little known. 
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