72 FLORA OF JAMAICA Pilea 



P. densiflora Kunth Ind. Sent. Hort. Berol. 12 (1846) ; Griseb. op. 

 cit. 157; Wedd. Monogr. 219, t. 6 c, fig. 16, 17. Urtica crassi- 

 folia Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 349 (1805). (PI. 3, f. 10.) 



Wright [ Broughton\ Dancer \ Macfadyen] Wilson; YS.; Fairfield; 

 WuUscJilaegel, 1018, 1019 1 Moneague, Prior ! March ; Holly Mount, 

 Mt. Diabolo, 2500 ft., Harris] Fl. Jam. 6490, 8496, 8963; Belvedere, 

 St. Thomas, Britton, 3667 1 



Stems 9-12 dm. high, ascending, woody at base. Leaves 8-10 cm. 1., 

 1*5-4 cm. br. ; nerves produced nearly to the apex; cystoliths unequal 

 fusiform, larger on the upper surface; petiole -5-4 cm. 1. Stipules 5-10 

 mm. 1. Cymes solitary, exceeding the leaves ; peduncles 2-4 cm. 1. Male 

 flowers with pedicels to 7 mm. 1. ; perianth about 1 mm. 1., globose, 

 coherent below; dorsal appendages '1 mm. 1., flat-triangular. Female 

 flowers red, sessile or subsessile. Achene '8 mm. 1., roundish-ovate, very 

 oblique, punctate; median segment '6- "8 mm. 1., about twice as long as 

 the acuminate lateral segments, dorsal appendage apiculate ; a fourth 

 segment similar to the lateral segments sometimes present, opposite the 

 median. 



23. P. gpandifolia Bliime Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. it. 52 (1856) ; 

 dioecious, glabrous ; leaves broadly ovate, sometimes elliptical, 

 acuminate, base obtuse or rounded, crenate-serrate with large 

 teeth, triplinerved, with scattered dark sunken glands on under 

 surface, occasionally puberulous on veins beneath ; stipules large, 

 elliptical, persistent ; cymes laxly many-flowered, peduncles 

 generally longer than the petioles, dichotomously paniculate. — 

 P. grandis Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xviii. 216 (1852) & in 

 DC. Prodr. xvi. pt. 1, 142 (excl. habitat St. Thomas); Griseb. 

 op. cit. 157. Urtica iners racemosa &c. Shane Gat. 38 & Hist. 

 Jam. i. 124, t. 83, /. 2. Urtica erecta, foliis &c. Browne Hist. 

 Jam. 337. Urtica grandifolia L. Amaen. v. 409 (1760) & Sp. 

 Pled. 2, 1396; Sw. Obs. 357. (PI. 3, f. 11.) Type in Herb. 

 Mus. Brit. 



Dwarf Cedar. 



Hope River, and in mountains in Guanaboa, Sloane Herb. ii. 76 1 

 Shakspear ! Swartz ! Caley 1 Macfadyen 1 Westmoreland, Purdie 1 Mon- 

 eague; Tiddenham, St. Ann, Priori Marchl Newcastle, 3500 it., Eggers I 

 near Cinchona, C. Nicholls I Old England, Blue Mts., Harris ! Scotts Hall, 

 St. Mary, 600 ft. Thompson ! Fl. Jam. 5295, 5296, 6748, 7397. 



Shrubby. Stems 9-18 dm. high. Leaves generally 1-2 dm. 1., '5-1 

 dm. br. ; nerves produced nearly to the apex ; cystoliths on upper surface 

 very unequal, fusiform or punctiform, underneath subequal, linear, smaller 

 and more frequent ; petiole generally longer than the next internode. 

 Stipules l'5-2 cm. 1. Cyme (including peduncle) shorter than the leaves, 

 about equaling its own peduncle, 6-12 cm. 1. ; flowers purplish, red, white 

 or green. Male flowers, with pedicel to '7 mm. 1.; perianth globose, 

 1*5 mm. 1., with erect or connivent, linear, thick dorsal appendag§a 

 •8-"4 mm. 1. Female flowers red, stalked; pedicel "3 mm. 1. Achene 

 •5 mm. 1., elliptical; median segment about "5 mm. 1., dorsal appendage 

 blunt, projecting above apex ; lateral segments about '3 mm. 1. 



24. P. Elizabethse Fawc. & Bendle in Journ. Bot. 1. 179 (1912) ; 

 dioecious (male plant only seen), glabrous, stems woody ; leaves 



