URTICACEJB. 533 



calyx 5 -partite ; segments ovate, usually shortly acuminate, rather 

 hispid outside, valvate. Stamens 5. Rudiment of gynaeceum 

 obovoid, nestling in dense wool. Male calyx 0, or very rarely 

 short. 1 Germen ovoid straight, bristly or subappressed-hispid ; 

 ovule suberect ; stigma (borne on short style) sublateral, lanceolate 

 or subcapitate, shortly or long-papillose, persistent. Achene ovate 

 rather compressed or obtusely 3-gonous, hispid or bristly ; pericarp 

 fleshy outside, inside nucamentaceous or bony, sometimes thickly 

 marginate. Seed elliptical compressed ; albumen scanty ; cotyledons 

 elliptical or oblong, a little longer than slender radicle. — Shrubs ; 

 leaves alternate, serrate or crenulate, 3-ribbed, grey beneath; 

 cystoliths punctiform ; stipules axillary, generally 2-fid ; flowers in 

 capitula or glomeruli loosely and irregularly cymose, bracteate at 

 base ; inflorescences axillary, usually paired (East India, Malaysia, 

 Oceania:). 



30. Myriocarpa Benth. 3 — Flowers dioecious or more rarely 

 monoecious. Male calyx 4- or more rarely 3, 5-partite ; segments 

 ovate-obtuse ciliolate. Stamens 4, or more rarely 3, 5. Eudiment 

 of gynseceum small conical glabrous. Female calyx 0. Grermen 

 elliptical-compressed, tapering at base, tapering at apex into a rather 

 long style stylose-ciliate-like germen ; stigma lateral semi- 

 lunar villous-papillose, persistent ; ovule erect ; funicle slender. 

 Achene tapering at base. Seed erect ; cotyledons of fleshy embryo 

 rotundate, half as long again as conical radicle. — Small trees or 

 shrubs, more or less downy ; leaves alternate petiolate dentate, 

 3-ribbed ; cystoliths linear radiating from base of hairs of superior 

 surface ; stipules axillary entire ; male flowers glomerulate ; female 

 supported on 2-4-phyllous calycle, in spikes or sub- 1 -lateral very 

 slender pendulous racemes {North and South Tropical West America'). 



476, t. 16, B; Prodr., 235 ™ ' .—Lecanocnide Bl., Bijdr., 498 (Urtica).— Seem., Fl. Yit., 



Bl., Mus. Litgd.-Bat., ii. f. 12. 244. 



1 In 1 spec, H. ambigua (Wedd., Monogr., 3 Toy. Sulph., Bot., 168.— Wedd., Monogr., 

 483 ; Prodr., n. 8j, approaching the genus Mis- 484, t. 16, D ; Prodr., 235 33 . 



siessya. 4 Spec. 6. MlQ., in Mart. Fl. Bras., Urlic, 



2 Spec. 8. Miq., in Zoll. et Mor. Vers., 100; 197.— Liebm , in Kuen. JJansk. Fid. Sehk. Skr., 

 P ^.Jungh., i. 34 (Bcehmeria) ; Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 5 Rcekk., Nat. og Math. Afd„ ii. 306.— Wedd., 

 1. ii. 272. — Wall., Cat., n. 4.605 {Urtica).— in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 3, xviii. 231. 



