Fleurya] cxvi. uuticace^. 989 



2. F. grossa Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Xat., Ser. 1, i. p. 18;3 (1854), 

 and in DC, I.e., \>. 70. 



Urtica grossa E. Meyer ex Drdge in Flora 1813, Bes. Beig. 2, 

 pp. 136, 148, 150, 228. 



PuNGt) ANnt)NG(\ — An annuiil herb, erect or asceiulin;,' at the base, 

 verv violently stint,'iii<,'. On a rich soil in rocky places near Catete ; 

 fl. Feb. 1H.')7. No. 6273. An erect herb, annual. :5 to 5 ft. high, 

 armed with very vtlnnK'ntly stinging bristle.s : flowers monuecious, 

 greenish, the female ones on the upper i)art of the stem. In .somewhat 

 shady primitive woods in ^lata do I*ungo, growing in masses ; d. 

 and unripe fr. 14 April, 1857. No. 6295. 



3. F. podocarpa Wedd. in DC, I.e., p. "•;. 

 Var. fulminans. 



A mar.shy stoloniterous herb, probably la.sting throughout the 

 year, 1 to 5 ft. high, sometimes almost an under.shrub, of two 

 ditierent forms in respect of tlie inflorescence, more or less pilose 

 with violently stinging hairs ; stolons epigamous and hypogamous; 

 sap watery; hairs of the stem whitish, bent down and jidpres.sed; 

 leaves alternate, ovate or deltoid-ovate, acuminate at the apex, 

 subtruncate or somewhat wedge-shaped at tho trinerved base, 

 penniveined, membranous, reticulate, more or less pilose, detitate, 

 deep green above, paler beneath, 2 to 4 in. long by 1 1- to 2,V in. 

 broad ; basal lateral nerves slender, erect-patent, reaching the 

 margin about the middle of the side of the blade ; penniveins 

 alternate, slender, 5 or 6 on each side in addition to the basal 

 nerves ; reticulation delicate , cystoliths linear on the lower face, 

 not conspicuous, rather punctiform on the upper face ; teeth more 

 or less obtuse, minutely apiculale ; petioles rosy, ranging up to 

 Z\ in. long ; stipules lanceolate or tiliform from a broader base, 

 i to i in. long ; flowers monacious ; the male ones racemose- 

 spicate on fleshy rosy or purplish limp erect-spreading or 

 ascending pedinicles, sometimes in clustered panicles developed on 

 a naked scape which proceeds from the rhizome, sometimes 

 cymose-paniculate in the axils of the leafy stem, fulminating 

 on touch, scape sometimes 2 to 2;^ ft. long ; peduncles of the 

 male inflorescence 1 to 12 in. long, more or less pilose, the 

 inflorescence h to 10^ in. long, the clusters of flowers \ to ir- in. 

 in diameter, subsessile or on short pedicels, the ultimate pedicels 

 very short ; the male perianth usually 5-partite, rarely 4-partite ; 

 the segments equal, ovate-oblong, concave, uninerved, valvate in 

 aestivation, -^.t in. long, whitish green, rosy outside, sparingly 

 seto.se ; stamens usually 5, rarely 4, whitish, transversely 

 furrowed, elastic ; anthers white, before the opening of the flower 

 surrounded with the articulate-hyaline filaments resembling the 

 annulus of ferns, exploding the pollen in an elastic m:mner with 

 a momentary development of heat ; ovary globose, rudimentary ; 

 female flowers several together, sessile, in very loosely racemose 

 clusters, on closely reflected peduncles wliich are almost adj)ress(^d to 

 the stem; style long, ro.sy, terminating in the truncate stigma; fruit 

 often produced underground, couipressed, (ilili(iue]v elliptical, 



