CXIX. ORTICACE^. 1459 



Sdbtribe 2. Eutaorem.—Male and female Aoweri spicate, or female sub-capitate. Sepals 

 of the females fleshy in fruit and inclosing the achene. Trees or shrubs. 



Male flowers in dense spikes. Females lew in spikes or heads, their perianths 

 of 4 segments. Style-branches elongated .5. PsEUDOMOEns. 



Sddtmbe 3. DorstenieSB. — Male and female flowers crowded on a narrow or broad flat 

 fleshy receptacle. 



Keoeptaole flat, entire or lobed. Herbs or shrubs 6. *Dobbienia. 



Tribe HI. Artocarpese. — Flowers unisexual in dense spikes or heads, or crowded on or 

 inclosed in a fleshy receptacle. Stamens erect or slightly incurved in the bud. Styles undivided 

 or ibranched. Ovule pendulous or laterally attached. Embryo curved or straight. Trees or 

 shrubs with a milky juice. 



SuBTEiBE 1. Ficese. — Receptacle fleshy , globose or obovoid. . 



Flowers enclosed in the receptacle which ia more or less closed at the small 



orifire by small bracts 7, Ficrs. 



SnBTRiBE 2. Euartocarpese. — Inflorescence unisexual, riaked or with S to i stipitate 

 bracts at the base, heads or spikes, rarely racemes, or the females rarely 1-flowered. 

 Flowers in globular heads on a fleshy receptacle. Fruit a synoarp, formed 



of the enlarged fleshy perianths and receptacle 8. Cudrania. 



Tkibe IV. Urticeee. — Flowers unisexual. Stamens I to 5, inflexed in the bud, xoith the 

 anthers reversed. Style undivided or none. Ovule erect, orthotropous. Trees herbs or shrubs 

 with a watery juice, 



SuBTEiBE 1. TTrereae. — Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees, with stinging hairs. Flowers 

 cymose, 2 to 5-merous. 



Leaves opposite. Achene straight; stigma penioillate 9. Uetica. 



Leaves alternate ; stipules connate. Achene obUque ; stigma ovate or 



linear 10. Flkueya. 



Leaves alternate. Female sepals 4. Achene oblique ; stigma filiform . . .11. Laportea. 



Sdbtkibe 2. Procrideee. — Herbs, rarely shrubs, without stinging hairs. Inflorescence 

 cymose, or flowers on a fleshy receptacle. Female flowers 3 to 5 partite. Stigma penicillate. 



Leaves opposite. Flowers cymose or capitellata 12. *Pilea. 



Leaves alternate. Flowers all on a fleshy receptacle. Female perianth 



small or none 13. Elatosibma. 



SCBTRIBE 3. SceJimerieSS.— Flowers not involucrate, spicate, fascicled, racemose or 

 paniculate; male perianth ito 5 merous, female tubular or none. Shrubs or trees, rarely herbs, 

 withotit stinging hairs. 



* Fruiting perianth membranous or dry, including the free or adnate achene. 



Shrubs or undershrubs. Stigma filiform, persistent 14. Bcehmeku. 



Herbs. Flowers 4-mer8U3. Stigma deciduous filiform 15. Pouzolzia. 



** Fruiting periantlnnore or less fleshy, including the free or adnate achene; trees or shrubs; 

 leaves alternate. 



Leaves broad. Ovary free. Stigma linear deciduous ; 16. Pipiurus. 



SuBTRiBE 4. Parietariete. — Herbs or undershrubs, without stinging hairs. Leaves 

 alternate, quite entire. Flowers in cymose involucres. 



Stigma tufted. Male perianth-segments nearly flat 17. Pabieiaria. 



ScBTEiBE 5. VorsltolHess,— Herbs or undershrubs, without stinging hairs. Leaves toothed. 

 Flowers in naked or involuAiratc clusters, males monandrous. 



Stigma linear. Male perianth with 1 large outer lobe. Stamen 1. No bracts . 18. Acsiramka. 



1. CELTIS, Linn. 

 (A classical named for the Lotos), 

 (Solenostigma, Endl.) 

 Flowers polygamous, in axillary or lateral cymes. Perianth in both sexes 

 of 4 or 5 segments imbricate in the bud. Stamens in the male and hermaphro- 

 dite flowers as many as perianth-segments, not exceeding the perianth, but 



