PARIETARIE/E. — PARIETARIA. 513 



B- — Folia trineivia, nervis basilanbus scilicet ex ipsa inserdone petioli 

 nascentibus . Slirpes annitœ. 



4. Parietaria mauritanica. 



p. annua; caule erecto vel dlffuso, glabriusculo; foliis laie ovatis 

 vel triangulari-ovatis, trinerviis; cymis Iaxis, pauci-niullifloris, 

 bracteis ovatis v. oblongo-ovatis, liberis, post anlhesiu subiuimuta- 

 tis, floribus inlimis (paucissimis) femiueis, cseteris hermaphroditis, 

 perigonio post anthesin elongalo-cylindrico. 



Parietaria latifolia, trimestris (non descr.) Grisley, Virid. lusit., 67. 



? Parietaria Ocymi folio Boccone., /con. et descr. pi. rar. Sic, 47, f. a. 



?Parietaria ocymifolia Poir., in Lmk. EncijcL, V, 15. — P. cirreœfolia Pourret, mscr., in Herb. 



Mus. par. — P. mauritanica Durieu, in Duchartr. Rev. bot., Il, 427. 

 ?Frelrea ocymifolia Gaudich., Sot. foy. Cran., 502. 



a erecta : caule elato ramisque erectis^ foliis amplis, basi obtusis 

 rotundatis vel subcordalis. 



P diffusa : caule brevi, longe diffuseque ramoso; foliis parvis basi 

 obtusis acutatisve. 



Caulis in var. a 3-6 dm. altus, simpliciter ramosiis (ramis gracilibus), 

 superne sœpe puberuliis, cseterum glaberrimus, striatus, lœvis, succulentus, 

 raro inferne lignescens, siccitate viridis vel fuscescens. Folia minora (in 

 var. p) centimetralia vel Licentimetralia, majora (in var. a) ,5-8 cm. longa, 

 3^-6 cm. lata, sœpius subabrupte acuminata (acumine triangulari obtuse), 

 rarius sensim attenuata, basi ut plurimum late cuneata, utrinque sparsim 

 pilosula, margine ciliata, raro omnino glabrata ; lamina exsiccata tenuiter 

 membranacea,laîte viridi, cy.stolilhis minutissimis punctulata ; /je^/o/o gracili, 

 quam limbus longiore aut breviore , pubescente vel glabrato. Cyms, 

 laxiusculae, initie dichotome dein helicoideo-ramosae, ramis divaricatis piibes- 

 centibus; bracteis primum flores vix superantibus, sed quam illi demum 

 brevioribus, ciliatis ; floribus hermaphroditis albidis aut rubentibus, post 

 anlhesin 3-miIlimetralibus; perigonii lobis angustis, erectis, superne ciliatis, 

 Arcbives du Muséum. T. IX. ■ 65 



