URTICACE. 957 
{Female scape tubular, shortly toothed or subentire, enclosing 
the achene 6] 
Fruiting at dry, membranous; stigma filiform :— 
Tubs ; slignia persistent ..+..0..«<nusaysaeenes 
Herbs ; stigma jointed, deciduous ................00++« Pouzolzia. 
tee petincilii more or less fleshy 
vary free; stigma penicillate; leaves narrow 
Sarcochlamys. 
Ovary adnate ; leaves broad :— 
i sessile, subpeltate, ciliate .............. Villebrunea. 
Rina peri¢ilate (0c ee Debregeasia. 
*Plants with wie juice :—[p. 
ers in bud re eaente stamens inflexed; ovule pendulous, 
anatropous ; shrubs or trees :— 
Style undivided, Pa ted ; male ow spicate, female in globose 
heads; achenes stipitate ; dicecious trees ..........0.00+ Broussonetia. 
Style 2-fid or 2-partite :— 
Female sepals fleshy in fruit and enclosing the achenes; flowers 
humerous, both male and female spicate, or male spicate an 2 
female subcapitate Moru 
Female sepals not fleshy ; female flowers few or solitary :— 
Male flowers racemose ; bracts minute ; female sepals very short 
Taxotrophis. 
Male flowers subcapitate :— ; 
Bracts of male flowers many, large ; female mae foliaceous 
llochlamys. 
me of male flowers 2; female sepals coriaceous, one 
eo 
sothes in Ba erect; style undivided or 2-fid; aa E 
sex 
aan. erect, orthotropous; flowers in 1-sexual heads ; ; clenibainig 
shrubs 
rrr 
Ovules si nFlags or somewhat amphitropous :— o 
id. :- 
Flowers all e 
aie lee elon, chal — moncecious, male in cylindric 
spikes, female in racemes; small trees ......... Balanostreblus. 
Inflorescence contracted in a or oblong h — 
Flowers dicecious, in small, ait globose heads ; stamens 4; 
Cudrania 
erect, unarmed tr Sve cha deteee pl CeAwetenb whee ens 
Flowers monecious or iadices on ae inner Pak of a closed 
le ; trees or erect climbing shrubs ...............:0+++-Fi¢Us. 
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