Urticea.] FLORA OF TA 
1. Poranthera microphylla (Brongniart in Not. 
radice perplurimis prostratis gracilibus apicibus ascendent 
ellipticis lanceolatisve acuminatis versus apices ramulorui 
ramulorum confertis foliis linearibus spathulatisve immixi 
Hab. A common little weed everywhere, from the D 
Distrib. Throughout Australia, both tropical anil b 
Nat. Ord. LXXIII. 
The rarity of this Natural Family in the Australian i 
contains one of the most gigantic plants of the Order k 
the Illawarra district, which attains a height of lid fe 
The Natural Order has lately been ably worked up by \ 
species, belonging to the genera Urtiea, i, 
t rat in a ; the majority of the above are tropical, or nut is 
Colony. 
Flores monoici v. die 
reniformibus, circa pi-till 
lodged in their cells, < 
1. Urtiea incisa (Poiret, Encycl. Suppl. iv. 223 
gracile petiolatis polymorphis triangulari-ovatis oblongi 
tisve dentatis inciso-serratisve, sinubus acutis, glomer 
superioribus. — Wedd. Arch. Mus. ix. 81. U. lucifuga, 
i. 225. (Gunn, 541, 2003.) 
