Pouzolzia.] 
TJRTICACEiE. 
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lanceolate, deciduous. Flowers in dense globose clusters \ in. broad, 
sessile in the axils of the leaves, which are crowded near the top of the 
branchlets. Perianth of both sexes in. long, that of the males cut 
halfway down into deltoid lobes. Fruit perianth rugose, globose, 
winged and crested. Parietaria laevigata, Poir. Encyc. v. 17. 
Var. P. canescens, Gaudich. ; Wedd. in DC. Prod. xvi. 225. 
Branchlets, leaves on both surfaces and flowers finely pubescent. 
Parietaria canescens, Poir. 
Mauritius, in woods of the Pouce and Savanne ranges, both varieties. Also 
Bourbon. 
7. PIPTUTUTS, Wedd. 
Flowers polygamo-dioicous. Male perianth with 4 ovate acute lobes 
and 4 stamens surrounding a rudimentary ovary. Female perianth 
bottle- shaped, minutely toothed at the contracted mouth, surrounding 
and adnate to the ovary ; style filiform. Fruit subbaccate. — Shrubs with 
alternate petioled leaves, without any stinging hairs, the flowers of 
both sexes in globose clusters either forming spikes or sessile in the 
axils of the leaves. Distrib. Tropics of the Old World. Species 8. 
Leaves entire, not silvery beneath 1. P. rotundifolius. 
Leaves inciso-crenate, silvery beneath 2. P. incanus. 
1. P. rotundifolius, Wedd. in DC. Prod. xvi. 235 18 . A climbing 
shrub, with finely pubescent branchlets. Leaves oblong or round- 
ovate, rounded or subcordate at the base, acute, entire, glabrous above, 
with fine adpressed pubescence on the ribs beneath ; petiole 1-lf in. 
long; stipules ovate-lanceolate, in. long. Clusters of flowers in 
ternate spikes 2-6 in. long, simple or branched at the very base, the 
upper bracteated by very small leaves. Fruit-perianth ovoid, pubes- 
cent, -Jj in. long, much shorter than the stigma. Urtica rotundifolia, 
Poir. : Bojer , Hort. Maur. 293. 
Mauritius, in damp woods of the Pouce and Quartier Militaire. Endemic. 
Bois d gratter. 
2. P. incanus, Wedd. in DC. Prod. xvi. 235 18 . A much-branched 
shrub 3-5 feet high, with finely pubescent branches. Leaves mem- 
branous, round-cordate, 3-6 in. long, acute, inciso-crenate, green 
and glabrescent above, silvery beneath ; stipules deciduous, deltoid, 
£ in. long. Flowers in spaced globose clusters i in. thick, iri short 
simple or branched spikes from the axils of the leaves. Female 
perianth in. long, silvery, shorter than the stigma. P. velutinus, 
Wedd. olim. 
Seychelles, on the beach at Grand Anse in the island of Praslin, Horne , 562 ! 
Also Malaya and Polynesia. We have P. argenteus, Wedd., which is probably a 
mere variety, from Galega Island, Bojer ! and it is Boehmeria frondosa, Bojer, Hort. 
Maur. 294, but not of D. Don. Bois Cendre. 
