500 



NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



flower always much larger than the other two ; the other has 

 opposite leaves, but its female perianth is tubular. 



The fruit is oblique in the seven other genera of this series : 

 Obetia, Fleurya, Lajjortea, Urera, Scepocarpus, Gj/rota/iia, and Girar- 

 dinia. Tbey all have alternate leaves with the stipules axillary, not 

 lateral ; tbey closely resemble one another in floral organization. 1 



II. PEOCEIS SERIES. 



Procris" (figs. 539, 540) has unisexual flowers, monoecious or 



Proeris Cephalida. 



Fig. 539. 

 Flowering branch (i). 



dioecious. The males are formed nearly as in Urtica, but pent- 

 amerous, with imbricated sepals, five superposed stamens, and a 



1 See tbe Genera, pn. 517-522 • «, , IT 



« Commas., „*,'. ^ J. ^:'403.-Lamk m ~ ™" ^ ***' *' 6 ' * '' ^^ 



III., t. 763.— Pom., Did., v. 629 (part.) ; Suppl.] 493^ 



191. — Sciophila Gaudich., Yoy. Uran., Bot., 



