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lobate or coarsely crenate, penniveined or subdigitiveined ; cysto- 

 liths punctiform ; stipules lateral-axillary free ; flowers in loosely 

 cymose-racemose glomeruli ; pedicels terete ; bracts linear (Mada- 

 gascar*). 



5. Fleurya Gaudich. 2 — Flowers monoecious or dioecious. Male 

 calyx 4, 5 -partite ; bud umbilicate ; outside glabrous or variously 

 clothed. Stamens 4, 5. Budiment of gynaeceum globose, clavate or 

 sublobate. Female calyx 4-lobed or 4-partite; segments subequal 

 or more often unequal ; one (superior) of the exterior (smaller than 

 interior) rotundate, cucullate or furnished with a stinging hair ; 

 the other ovate lanceolate or minute. Germen (of Obetid) finally 

 more or less oblique ; stigma sessile, ovate lanceolate or linear, 

 persistent and finally uncinate, sometimes 2, 3 -partite ; lobes conni- 

 vent ; one soon elongated ; the other 2 rudimentary. Achene 

 obliquely ovate or rotundate, obliquely set on articulate pedicel, and 

 falling from it at maturity with persistent slightly enlarged calyx. 

 Seeds sparingly albuminous at apex ; cotyledons of rather fleshy 

 embryo transversely elliptical-rotundate emarginate. — Annual herbs, 

 stinging or almost unarmed ; leaves alternate, serrate or crenate- 

 dentate ; cystoliths linear ; stipules axillary, 2-fid ; flowers 3 in small 

 2-chotomous-scorpioid cymes or in subdistichous racemose axillary 

 glomeruli ; males and females in the same inflorescences or distinct ; 

 pedicels 1, 2-articulate; females cylindrical or more rarely compressed 

 below flower {All Tropical regions*). 



6. Laportea Gaudich. 5 — Flowers monoecious or dioecious. Male 

 calyx 4-5-partite, in bud depressed in middle, glabrous or more or 

 less hispid. Stamens 4, 5. Rudiment of gynseceum subglobose. 



1 Spec. 2. Poie., Diet., iv. 638, n. 10 

 {Urtica). — Bory, Voy., i. 281 ( Urlica). — 

 Gaudich., Voy. TJran., Bot., 496 {Urera?). 



2 Voy. TJran., Bot., 497. — Exdl., Gen., n. 

 1S79, d. — Wedd., in Ann. Sc. Nat.,sev. 3, xviii. 

 204; Ilonogr., 109, t. 1, A; Prodr., 70. — 

 Schychowshia Ekdl., in Ann. Wien., i. ]87. t. 

 13. 



3 Females greenish ; males whitish or pink. 



4 Spec, about 8. L., Spec., 1397 {Urlica). — 

 Pltjm., Cat., 11. — Jacq., Hort. Schcenbr., iii. t. 

 3S8.— Forsk., Ft. Mg.Arab., 160. — FoufcT., 



Prodr., 341.— El., Bijdr., 503.— H. B. K., 

 Nov, Gen. et Spec, ii. 42 (Urtica). — Hook. & 

 Arn\, in Beech. Voy., Bot., iv. 69. — A. Rich., 

 Fl. Cub., ii. 224 ( Urtica).— Griseb., Ft. Brit. 

 W.-Ind., 154.— MiQ., in Zoll. et Mor. Verz., 

 106 ; in Mart. Fl. Bras., Urtic, 196. 



5 Voy. Uran., Bot., 498. — Endl., Gen., n. 

 1879, c— Wedd., Mon., 121, t. 2-4; Prodr., 

 77. — Dendrocnide MjQ., PI. Jungh., 29. — 

 Sclepsion Rafin., mss. — Discocarpus Liebm. 

 (i.ec Kl., nee Pfeiff., ex Wedd., loc. cit.). 



