522 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



small trees, not stinging (?) ; leaves alternate, entire or serrate ; 

 cystoliths punctiform or oblong; stipules axillary entire, 2 -ribbed ; 

 flowers spicate or capitate axillary ; females inserted in fleshy 

 receptacle, ebracteate 1 {Antilles 1 ). 



10. Girardinia Gaudich. 3 — Flowers monoecious or dioecious. 

 Male calyx 4, 5-partite ; segments ovate hispid. Stamens, 4, 5. 

 Eudiment of gynseceum globose or cupulate. Female calyx bipart- 

 ite ; segments very dissimilar ; one larger subtubular, 2-fid, dentic- 

 ulate at apex ; the other ovate smaller or very small linear, 

 sometimes abortive. Germen ovoid lanceolate ; ovule usually 

 ascending ; funicle slender ; stigma filiform, usually minutely 

 papillose, persistent. Achene accompanied at base by persistent 

 patent calceolate calyx, obliquely rotundate compressed, smooth or 

 thinly granulose, or very rarely setulose on both subconvex faces. 

 Cotyledons of sparingly albuminous embryo rotundate, emarginate 

 at both ends ; radicle oblong. — Annual or perennial herbs, more or 

 less woody at base, tall erect, armed with hairs or stinging prickles ; 

 leaves alternate serrate or lobate, 3-ribbed ; cystoliths punctiform ; 

 stipules of both leaves connate, not persistent to 1 axillary, entire 

 or 2-fid at apex ; male flowers 4 early deciduous, in glomeruli collected 

 into a simple or forked, sometimes much branching raceme ; bracts 

 few minute ; pedicels articulate ; females in compound cymiferous 

 and (in superior twigs) scorpioid racemes ; cymes very dense 

 and bristling with stings when fruiting {Warm and Temperate 

 Asia and Africa 6 ). 



II. PBOCEIDE^. 



11. Procris Commers. — Flowers monoecious or dioecious. Male 

 calyx 5-partite ; sepals obovate muticous rather fleshy. Stamens 5, 



1 " Between this genus and Urera there is no 4 Greenish. 



essential difference, except that the 2-lobed * Spec, about 7. Bttbm., Zeyl., 232 ( Urtica). 



perigonium is little enlarged after anthesis." — Foesk., Fl. Mg.-Arab., 159. — Vahl, Symb., 



(Wedd.) i. 76.— Link, Faum., ii. 285.— Zknk., PI. Lid. 



2 Spec. 3. Poir., Diet., iii. t. 763, fig. 2 ScTvm., dec. 1, n. 3, 4. — A. Rich., Fl. Abyss. 

 {Procris).— Pees., Syn., ii. 556 (Boehmeria).— Tent, ii. 262.— Wight, Icon., ii. t. 687.— Miq., 

 Wedd., Monogr., 155 {Urera). Fl. Ind. Bat., i. p. ii. 233; PI. Jungh., 32 



3 Toy. Uran., Bot., 498.— Endl., Gen., n. ( Urtica).— Dcne.. Voy. Jacquem., Bot., 151.— 

 1879, e.— Wedd., Monogr., 163, t. 2, B; Prodr., Wedd., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 3, xviii. 203; 



100. 



ser. 4, i. 181. — Bl., Mus. Lugd.-Bat., ii. 158. 



