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TTRTICACEiE. 
[Pilea, 
lower half ; petiole in. long ; stipules minute, deltoid. Cymes 
few-flowered, glomerate, sessile in the axils of the leaves. Achene 
Jj in. long, pale brown, smooth, longer than its perianth. 
Mauritius, in shaded woods, Carmichael ! Midway between P. urticifolia and 
cuneiformis. Endemic. 
8. P. Balfourii, Baker. A monoicous perennial, with densely 
tufted slender square stems 1-1£ foot long. Leaves membranous, 
oblong-rhomboid, 1-3 in. long, acute or acuminate, deeply inciso- 
crenate, triplinerved from the base nearly to the apex, cuneate and 
entire at the base; petiole i-1 in. long; stipules minute, deltoid. 
Cymes deltoid, many-flowered, f in. broad, sessile in the axils of the 
leaves. Male flowers distinctly pedicellate. Perianth in. long, the 
segments distinctly mucronate. Achene ovoid, compressed, smooth, 
acutely margined. 
Rodriguez, on the faces of damp cliffs in the highest part of the valleys, Balfour ! 
Endemic. 
9. P. verbascifolia, Wedd. in DC. Brod. xvi. 132. A shrubby 
perennial, with simple or branched erect woody stems 3-4 feet high. 
Leaves oblanceolate-oblong, distinctly triplinerved from the base to 
the apex, 4-8 in. long, membranous, acute, obscurely denticulate, 
cuneate at the base ; petiole channelled, in long ; stipules large, 
deciduous, obtuse, oblong-spathulate. Cymes copiously branched, 
dense, sessile in the axils of the leaves, deltoid, J-f in. broad. Male 
flowers pedicellate, i in. long, with reddish acute segments, distinctly 
mucronate below the tip. Achenes brown, compressed, with an acute 
edge, as long as their perianth. Urtica longifolia, Willd. ; Bojer. Hort. 
Maur. 292. 
Mauritius, in the mountain forests of Grand-port, Savanne, etc. Endemic. 
3. PROCRIS, Comm. 
Flowers monoicous or dioicous, the females sessile on a fleshy 
discoid receptacle, the males cymose. Male perianth 5-partite, with 
obovate-oblong segments ; stamens 5, surrounding a rudimentary pistil. 
Female perianth of 3-4 oblong greenish-white fleshy persistent segments ; 
ovary ovoid ; stigma sessile, penicillate. Fruit a compressed achene, 
sessile on the fleshy receptacle. — Grlabrous succulent undershrubs, the 
leaves alternate or, if opposite, one of the pair large and the other very 
small ; the female heads sessile or peduncled. Distrib. Tropics of the 
Old World. Species 4. 
1. P. pedunculata, Wedd. in DC. Brod. xv. 191. A monoicous 
undershrub, glabrous in all its parts, with simple or branched stems 
1-2 feet long. Leaves oblique, lanceolate, 3-6 in. long, acuminate, 
unequally cuneate at the base, entire or obscurely toothed, subcoria- 
ceous, penninerved, with the main arcuate-ascending veins only dis- 
tinct ; petiole long. Female flowers in globose sessile heads 
in. thick, not surrounded bv an involucre. Male flowers in peduncled 
