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globose-pyriform ; segments with a raised median line ending in connivent 

 tubercles. Achene '75 mm. 1., roundish-elliptical or roundish-ovate, 

 margined, muriculate, projecting beyond median segment of perianth by 

 one-quarter to one-third ; median segment as long as the achene, oblong- 

 elliptical with a light-coloured dorsal keel; lateral segments elliptical, 

 shortly acute. 



10. P. lueida Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. it. 48 (1856); 

 monoecious, shrubby, glabrous ; leaves small, of two forms, 

 cuneate, the larger leaf pinnatifid (1-3 lobes on each side), the 

 other minute, obovate, entire, sometimes the larger also entire ; 

 cymes small, consisting of a single few-flowered cluster, andro- 

 gynous or monoecious, with long stalks. — Wedd. in DC. Prodr. 

 xvi.pt. 1, 119; Griseb. op. cit. 156, var. a and var. (3 cuneifolia 

 (in part). Ui'tiea lueida Sw. in Vet. Handl. Stockli. vi. 31 (1785) 

 & Fl. Ind. Occ. 315. (PL 1, B, f. 9.) 



On damp rocks, or banks in shady woodland ; Swartz ! Union Hill, 

 near Moneague, Prior ! Tyre, near Troy, 2400 ft. ; near Newmarket, 1200 

 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 8807, 9082 ; Union Hill, near Moneague, BriLton d 

 Rollick, 2739, 2788 ! 



A small shrub, stem 1-2 dm. high, diffusely branching, without leaves 

 below; branches slender, leafy. Leaves 5-11 mm. 1., l'5-4 mm. br., 

 shortly stalked, upper surface with large linear cystoliths. Peduncle 

 nearly as long as the larger leaf. 



Male flowers sessile or shortly pedicellate. Perianth "coloured" 

 (Swartz), about 1*5 mm. 1., globose, with triangular acute "green" dorsal 

 appendages about • 5 mm. 1. Female flowers sessile or subsessile ; perianth 

 segments with small brown teeth, median segment about as long as the 

 lateral segments. Achene elliptical, about I'l mm. 1. 



11. P. erenulata Urh. Symb. Ant. v. 308 (1907) ; monoecious, 

 somewhat shrubby, glabrous ; leaves of the same pair of very 

 unequal sizes, cuneate to narrowly obovate, the larger narrowly 

 obovate or obovate-elliptical, apex rounded or obtuse, below long- 

 attenuated into the short petiole, triplinerved, crenate-dentate 

 near the apex, penninerved, the 'other minute, entire; stipules 

 semiorbicular or lunate, "3- -5 mm. 1., persistent ; cymes small, 

 stalked, generally shorter than the larger leaf, somewhat capitu- 

 late. — P. cuneifolia Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xviii. 212 

 (1852) & in DC. Prodr. xvi. pt. 1, 119. P. lueida var. cunei- 

 folia Griseb. op. cit. 156 (1859) (in part). Urtica crenulata 

 Sw. in Vet. Handl. Stockh. vi. 35 (1785). Urtica cuneifolia 

 Sw. op. cit. viii. 70 (1787) & Fl Ind. Occ. 319. (PI. 3, f. 1.) 

 Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Amongst moss on calcareous rocks ; Swartz ! northern slopes of 

 Dolphin Head, Harris 1 Fl. Jam. 9238. 



Stem erect or ascending from a creeping base, 4-7 cm. ("-8 dm." 

 Swartz) high, with simple branches. Leaves larger 1-2 cm. 1., 4-8 mm. 

 br. ; stalk 2*5-1 mm. 1.; smaller 1-4 mm. 1., 1-2 mm. br. ; cystoliths 

 linear, much smaller and less conspicuous beneath. Cymes often con- 

 sisting of a single cluster; peduncle 1-2 cm. 1. Male flowers few in the 

 lowest part of the inflorescence, perianth "red" (Swartz), -75 mm. 1., 



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