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Pilea cardieri Gagn. & Guill. "aluminum plant"
Recent introduction. Vietnam. Occasional. Erect, branching, somewhat succulent
when young, perennial herb, up to 40 cm high, with somewhat 4-angled stems and
swollen internodes; leaves, up to 9 cm long and 5 cm wide, ovate, paired, dentate near
apex, dark-green with silvery blotches above, light green beneath; petioles, 2 to 3 cm
long; inflorescences, axillary, long-pedicellate, globose clusters; perianth segments, dull
white or slightly pink-tinged. Pot plant. 5, 6.
Pilea microphylla (L.) Liebm. "artillery plant"
syns. Parietaria nzicrophylla L. ; Pilea muscosa Lindl.
Recent introduction. Trop. America. Occasional. Low, delicate, much-branched,
succulent, glabrous, perennial herb, up to 30 cm high, with tender greenish or purplish
stems; leaves, 3 to 6 lnm long and 1 to 2 mm wide, opposite, 2-ranked, crowded, elliptic
to spathulate or obovate; inflorescences, axillary, cymose clusters; individual flowers,
minute, unisexual, minute, greenish, sometimes red-tinged; female flowers, 3-tepaled,
tepals, unequal; stamens, opening explosively. Weed in pot plants and under planted
ornamentals. 3(58713), 5(8), 6, 7.
Pilea nurnmularifolia (Sw.) Wedd. "creeping Charlie"
Recent introduction. Tropical America. Occasional. Creeping perennial herb, up
to 20 cm high, rooting at the nodes; leaves, up to 2.5 cm in diameter, oval, crenate,
succulent, pubescent, 3-veined from base; inflorescences, rose-red. Pot plant; ground
cover in shaded areas. 5, 6.
VERBENACEAE (Verbena Family)
Clerodendrum inerme L. var. oceanicuni A. Gray "beach privet"
eamwiye, eamwije, eyamwiye, eyamwije (N); te inato (K); inato (T)
syns. Volkumeria intv-mis L. ; Clerodendrum nereifolium Wal. ; C. commersonii
(Poir.) Spreng.
Indigenous. Indomalaysia, Australia and the Pacific Is. Common. Erect, trailing
or scrambling, sometimes shrubby, glabrous perennial, up to S m high; leaves, 3 to 13
cm long and 1 to 7 cm wide, opposite, or sometimes in whorls of 3, elliptic to obovate
or narrowly lanceolate, short-acuminate or cuspidate to somewhat blunt, base acute,
glabrate, thinly fleshy, pinnately nerved, dotted beneath with a few sunken glands