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URTICACEM. 



Fruit a drupe. Trees or shrubs : 

 Leaves glabrous or softly pubescent ; 

 male-sepals imbricate ; cotyledons 

 broad ..... 



Leaves scabrous ; male-sepals indu- 

 plicate-valvate ; cotyledons narrow 



Flowers usually dioecious. Herbs with 

 digitate leaves ..... 



Anthers in bud inflexed ; style undivided 



or none ; ovule erect : 



Leaves and stem with stinging hairs. 

 Herbs with alternate leaves and connate 

 stipules ...... 



Leaves and stems without stinging hairs : 



Female perianth 3-5-partite or obsolete ; 



stigma penicillate ; flowers in cymes 



or clustered on a fleshy receptacle : 



Leaves opposite ; flowers minute, in 



dense cymose heads . 



Leaves alternate ; flowers on a fleshy 

 receptacle ; female perianth minute 

 or obsolete ..... 



Female perianth tubular, shortly toothed 

 or subentire, enclosing the achene : 

 Fruiting perianth dry, membranous ; 



stigma filiform : 



. Stigma persistent Shrubs or small 

 trees ..... 

 Stigma jointed to apex of ovary, 

 deciduous Herbs or under 

 shrubs 



Fruiting perianth 

 fleshy : 



Stigma sessile, 

 ciliate 



more or less 

 subpeltate, 



Stigma penicillate 



Female perianth none ; flowers minute, 

 in small cymose globose heads ; 

 stigma penicillate. A shrub with 

 the leaves snowy-white beneath . 



2. CELTIS. 



3. TREMA 



4. CANNABIS. 



5. GlRARDINIA. 



6. PlLEA. 



7. ELATOSTEMA. 



8. BOEHMERIA. 



9. POUZOLZIA. 



10. VlLLEBRUNEA 



11. DEBREGEASIA. 



12. MAOUTIA, 



