200 



or scale-shaped rudiments : ovary sessile, free, 1-celled : ovule 

 1, basilar, sessile, orthotropal : style terminal, simple : 

 stigma subcapitate or penicillate : fruit naked or closed by 

 the persistent perianth, indehiscent : seed erect : testa mem- 

 branaceous : albumen fleshy, copious : embryo antitropal in 

 the axis of the albumen : cotyledons ovate, flat : radicle 

 short, cylindric. — Herbs or shrubs, sometimes arborescent : 

 leaves opposite or alternate, simple, petioled, feather-nerved, 

 entire, toothed or serrated, seldom palmatinerved, lobed, 

 usually v?ith stinging hairs interspersed with down : stipules 

 petiolar, free, entire, or lobed, seldom deciduous, or altogether 



GENUS I. PLEUETA. 



Tetrandria ItKonogynia. Sex: Syst: 



GrEN. Chae. Male perianth 4-parted : stamens 4 : female 

 perianth 2 — 4-parted : leaflets unequal : stigma long-filiform : 

 achenium obliquely ovate, slightly compressed, margined with a 

 narrow wing, naked. 



(1) F. INTEEETIPTA. (JR. W.) 



Ident. Wight's Icon. YI. t. 1975.— Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 238. 

 Syn. TJrtica interrupta (var. lacciflora), Linn. 



Spec. Chae. Herbaceous, erect, bristly all over: young 

 branches and under surface of the leaves pubescent : leaves long- 

 petioled, cordate-ovate, acute or acuminate, coarsely serrated, 

 triple-nerved : peduncles axillary, solitary, as long or longer than 

 the leaves, bearing small lateral panicles at unequal distances : 

 male calyx 4-parted : achenium tubercled on the discs. 



Common weed in gardens and elsewhere. 



&ENFS II. QIEAEDINA. 

 Tetrandria nionogynia. Sex : Syst : 



Gen. Chae. Perianth 4-parted: segments of the 4-parted 

 female perianth unequal, 3 coimate at the base, the fourth free : 

 achenium obliquely ovate, lenticular compressed, smooth. 



