Pilea URTICACEiE 71 



linear blunt. Female flowers '5 mm. 1., with perianth-segments subequal, 

 median hooded with upper edge fimbriate, lateral oblong, acute ; pedicels 

 of same length. 



20. P. oblaneeolata Fawc d Bendle in Journ. Bot. I. 179 

 (1912) ; dioecious (?) (only the female flower seen), glabrous, herba- 

 ceous, steins decumbent or ascending, simple ; stipules 1-1*5 mm. 1., 

 lunate ; leaves of the same pair more or less unequal, oblanceolate, 

 acute or shortly acuminate, base long-attenuate, 6-3 cm. 1., 

 serrate at the apex, triplinerved, membranous ; cystoliths on 

 the upper surface linear, beneath very inconspicuous, very 

 minute ; cymes female, paniculate, clusters many-flowered, dense- 

 flowered ; peduncles much longer than the petioles. (PI. 2, 

 f. 1, 4.) Type in Herb. N. York Bot. Gard. 



In crevices of rocks ; Peckham Woods, Upper Clarendon, 2500 ft. ; 

 Harris ! Fl. Jam. 10,946. 



Stems 10-30 cm. 1., rooting below at the nodes and between the nodes, 

 when dry, more or less compressed, l*5-3 mm. br., with very short linear 

 cystoliths only seen on young shoots ; internodes very variable in length 

 1-4 cm. 1. Leaves 1*8-1 cm. br., with the two lateral nerves produced to 

 about three-fourths of their length, petioles -3-1 cm. 1. Cymes solitary 

 from axils of upper leaves, peduncles 3-4 cm. 1. Female flowers sessile or 

 subsessile. Achene 1 mm. 1., broadly ovate, muriculate ; median segment 

 of perianth 1*2 mm. 1., dorsal appendage tuberculate, lateral segment 

 two-thirds as long. 



21. P. reticulata Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xviii. 215 

 (1852) ; monoecious or dioecious, glabrous ; leaves subobliquely 

 elliptical-oblong to narrowly obovate, acute to acuminate, generally 

 serrate above the middle, or rarely entire, tripli-(3-) nerved, 

 nerves reaching nearly to the apex ; stipules triangular-ovate, 

 persistent ; cymes unisexual or androgynous, peduncles shorter 

 or much longer than the petioles. — Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. 

 pt. 1, 145 ; Griseh. op. cit. 156. Urtica reticulata Sic. in Vet. 

 Handl. Stochh. vi. 30 (1785) & Fl. Ind. Occ. 286. (PI. 3, f. 9.) 



On rocks, in forest ; Swartz ! Westmoreland, Ptirdie ! slopes of Dolphin 

 Head, 1200-1400 ft.. Harris \ Fl. Jam. 9245, 9270. 



Stems herbaceous or somewhat shrubby, 2 dm. to 1 m. high, simple, 

 leafy only at the top. Leaves 6-13 cm. 1., 2-4*5 cm. br. ; cystoliths linear, 

 unequal on both sides ; petioles 1-4 cm. 1. Male flowers, pedicels to 

 1 mm. 1. ; perianth -9 mm. 1.; crimson, dorsal appendage small, tuber- 

 culate. Female flowers " white " (Swartz), sessile or subsessile. Achene 

 1-1 mm. 1., roundish-ovoid, muriculate ; median perianth-lobe nearly the 

 length of achene, tuberculate near the apex. 



22. P. epassifolia Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. ii. 52 (1856) ; 

 monoecious or dioecious, glabrous ; leaves ovate to elliptical- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, base rounded and emarginate, sometimes 

 subpeltate, serrate from near the base, triplinerved ; stipules 

 rather large, oblong-lanceolate, deciduous ; cymes paniculate ; 

 flowers dense in small roundish separate clusters, peduncles much 

 longer than the ^petioles.— Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. pt. 1, 143. 



