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side : flowers axillary, fascicled, mixed, males pedicelled : calyx 

 deeply 4-cleft : lobes with a bristly tooth-like appendage at the 

 apex : stamens twice exceeding the calyx : rudimentary pistil 

 clayate : female flowers numerous, sessile, very minute, aggregated 

 in fascicles of 2 or more flowers embraced by a bract. 

 Neilgherries. 



QENUS IX. FOESKOLIA. 



moncecia Monandria. Sex: Syst: 



Gen. Chab. Flowers androgynous, sessile on a woolly recep- 

 tacle, surrounded by a subcampanulate 5 — 6-cleft involucre: 

 females in the centre. Maie : perianth 1-leaved, galeate at the 

 apex : stamen 1 : filament filiform : anther extrorse, 2-celled, 

 attached by the back : cells opposite. Female : perianth tubular- 

 ventricose, woolly, limb quite entire: ovary elliptic, 1-celled, 

 1-ovuled : ovule sessile, orthotropal : style terminal, short : stigma 

 linear, unilateral: utricle membranaceous, enclosed by the per- 

 sistent perianth : seed erect from the base. — Herbs : leaves alter- 

 nate, stipuled : involucres axillary, sessile, united. 



(1) E. TTETICOIDES. (ft. W.) 



Ident. Wight's Icon. VI. t. 1982. 



Spec. Chab. Procumbent, ramous, rooting below : branches 

 ascending, slender, diffuse: leaves opposite, petioled, ovate or 

 subcordate, serrated, pilose on both sides : involucres axillary, 

 campanulate, 5-toothed, 4-flowered, 3-pedicelled male, and 1-sessile 

 female : male calyx 2-lobed with 1 stamen, female tubular, en- 

 closing the ovary, 5-toothed : style long : stigma villous, pointed : 

 achenium ovate, glabrous. 



Neilgherries, in damp woods at Ootacamund. 



GENUS X. UETICA. 

 monoecia Tetrandria. Sex: Syst : 



Deriv. From Uro, to burn, in reference to the stinging pro- 

 perties of most of the species. 



Gett. Chab. Flowers moncecious or dicecious, spiked or glo- 

 merate-capitate. Male : perianth regular, 4 — 5-cleft : segments 

 valvate : stamens 4 — 5, opposite the sepals : filaments filiform, at 

 first inflexed : anthers 2-celled, elliptic, incumbent. Female : 

 perianth 4-leaved ; leaflets erect, cruciately opposite, outer ones 

 smaller, inner ones persistent, sometimes baccate : ovary free, 

 1-celled : ovule 1, erect, orthotropal : stigma sessile, subcapitate, 

 villous, penicillate or long-filiform : achenium oblong, slightly 

 compressed, smooth or tubercled, naked or enclosed: seed erect. 



