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Thwaites Enum. 25 ; Dah. <k Gibs. Brnih. Fl. 18. U. muricata, DC. Prodr 

 i. 442. U. Lappago, DC. Prodr. i. 441. U. morifolia, DC. Prodr i. 44^f 

 U. heterophylla, Smith in Rees. (Jycl. 37 ; Wall. Cat. 1933 E, F, G, H, ^ 

 U. tomentosa, FaM. Cai. 1933 H ■—Burm. Zeijl. t. 69, f. 2. M?eie i/o) f. 

 J/aZ. t. X, f. 2 ; Rumph. Amb. vi. t. 25, f. 2. .^ 



■ Generally distributed over the hotter parts of India.— Distkib. Tropics of both 



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- Very variable in amount of pubescence, and in the form of the fohage herbaceous, 

 perennial. Leaves downy, lobes serrated. Glands on under surface of nerves -•• 

 Bracteoles linear-oblong, as long as the calyx. Flowers 1 in. diam. Carpels uensc jr 

 pubescent. i 



** Carpels smooth^ unarmed. 



■ 3. U. repanda, Roxb. Fl. Tnd. in. 182; stellate-hairy, leaves '^^^^f:^^l 

 or somewhat lobed, flowers racemose, bracteoles 5 subulate ^^IJ^^j® • ,«. 

 into a cup, sepals united for half their length. W. <fc ^- ^''^f' ^'o,!' 

 Wight III. I 65. U. rigida, Wall Cat 1929 (parthjl U. Hamiltomana, 

 WalL Cat 2700. Pavonia repanda, Spreiig. Si/st iii. 98. Urena specio^a, 

 Wait Ft As, Ear. t. 26, Gat 1931. . ^^ 



.North- West Jxdu, Upper Gakgetic Plain, the Western Penixsul-I ^"^^ \^[ 

 Shrubby. Leaves shortly petioled, rough above, midrib glandular at *"^ ,^*^ ^g 

 neath, lower 2-2^ in. long, roundish, rarely lobed, cordate at the base, repand-heiT , 

 npper hmceolate. Flowers in ultimately leafless chisters. Bracteoles y^^";* r ^le 

 coriaceous, exceeding the membranous calyx. Corolla pink, twice the lengtn o -^ 

 bracteoles. >Seei ascending, smooth. 



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Walt Cat 1929 (partly); stellate-hairy, leaves coro^i^ 

 roundish, flowers in heads at the ends of the branches, bracteoles 5, lan 

 late combined for half their length into a bell-shaped tube, sepals tree ne^i j 



to the base. 



BiRWA, Wallich, 3r Clelland ; Malacca, GrM^A.— Distrib. Borneo. _ , „i ;„ ^ 

 Perennial Stem purph'sh, thinly stellate-hairy. Leaves petioled, about I \jj ^^g 



base cordate, roundish serrulate, midrib glandular beneath ; stipules setaceous. ^ ^^ 

 mixed with floral leaves, in terminal subsessile heads. Sepals I in., °f ^^^,^^' base, 

 the bracteoles, membranous, villous at the back. Corolla white, tubular at luc ^^^^^ 

 above 5-petalous, twice the length of the bracteoles. Stamen4ube vnih P ^^'''"•.g has 

 at the upper edsre. Ripe carpels hispid, reticulate. Seed pilose.— This spec ^ ^^^ 

 the habit of a Mulachra. The nearly free sepals are noteworthy. 





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 Herbs or undershrubs. r^^,,.^. »v.4.:>» ^nr,■■.,^n■r. n-r inVifirl. more or 



Leaves etitire, angular or lo^«^\ ™° D,.,jWfo/€i 

 uuwny. r cowers axillary or clustered at the ends of the branches. ^",. Ha 

 5-00 , free or forming a tube at the base. Calyx S-parted. *; ^g 

 5-petalous, united at the base to the staminal-tube. *!>'to»^"^^".f ,1," senaK 

 or 5-toothed at the apex. Omry 5-celled, cells usually opposite ^^^V 'gpH, 

 rarely opposite the petals ; styles 10, stigmas capitate, ovules 1 m ^^ ^^ 

 /if/;>e carpe/« separating from the axis, entirely indehiscent, or more 

 2-valved, smooth, netted or winged, never glochidiate. Seeds ascenu a 

 DisTRiB. Species about GO, chiefly tropical America. 



Sect, l. Xiebretonia. Bracteoles 5-6. Carpels indehiscent 



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 Trop. Afr. i. 190. P. prucumbeus, Boiss. FL Orient, i. 837. Urena c*; 



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