486 OXXXVI,  URTICACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Gironniera. 
Var. birmanica ; leaves large elliptic more membranous crenate-serrate above the 
middle. — Tenasserim, on Mount Moolyet, Beddome (fem. fl. only). 
3. G. parvifolia, Planch. in Aun. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, x. (1849) 338; 
DC. Prodr. xvii. 206 (excl. syn.); branchlets young petioles stipules an 
leaf-nerves beneath faintly strigose, leaves elliptic ovate or ovate-lanceolate 
acuminate rather shining nearly smooth beneath, male cymes very el 
much branched, flowers very minute, drupe ovoid or orbicular compresse 
2-edged appressed puberulous. Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 223. 
PERAK, Scortechini, King's Collector. PENANG, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1470). 
MaLAOCA, Griffith. . . 
A shrub or small tree; branches slender. Leaves 3—5 in., quite entire, reticulate, 
nearly smooth beneath between the 6-8 pairs of rather slender raised nerves; petiole 
i-lin.; stipules } in., silkily strigose. Male cymes with scattered clusters of 
flowers, peduncle and branches filiform. Fem. cymes few-fid. Drupes 2-3 ono long 
slender peduncle, 4 in. broad, often long-beaked, and with the style-arms 1 in. long. 
—Planchon, erroneously including the Cingalese G. subequalis var. ceylanica, describes 
the leaves as serrate above the middle. 
4. G. reticulata, Thwaites Enum. 268 ; glabrous except the youngest 
shoots, leaves oblong- to ovate-lanceolate ‘acuminate or caudate base 
rounded or acute quite smooth and glabrous on both surfaces, male Cyr 
much branched, fem. few-fid., drupes large solitary axillary ovoid hardly 
compressed quite glabrous. Bedd. Fl. Sylvat. t. 313. G. cuspidata, Kur 
For. Fl. ii. 470. Sponia subserrata, Kurz in Flora, 1872, 448. Aphanant e 
cuspidata, Planch. in DC. Prodr. xvii. 209. Galumpita cuspidata, Blume 
Mus. Bot. ii. 73; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. i.i. 224. Cyclostemon cnspidatw 
Blume Bijd. 599. Helminthosperma glabrescens, Thwaites mss. Celtis 
reticulata, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. . 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 1-3000 ft., Kurz, &c. Assam; Goalpara, Hamilton. 
KnasrA Mrs., alt. 2000 ft., Mann. UPPER BURMA, at the Serpentine mines, 
Prov, Kurz. DECCAN PENINSULA; on the Ghats from S. Canara to Travancore 
CEYLON ; Badulla district, ascending to 3000 ft.—DrsTRIB. Java. «ated 
A lofty tree, branchlets slender, glabrous. Leaves 3-7 in., very long-porntess 
finely reticulated on both surfaces, young serrulate above the middle, often shining 
above ; nerves 10-12 pairs, slender; petiole 3-3 in. Male cymes shortly pedunciec 5 
branches short, many-fid.; flowers nearly glabrous; pistillode of male a very ams 
tuft of hairs. Drupes about as long as their pedicel, }-% in. long, stoutly beaked, 
obscurely 2-angled. 
9. G. lucida, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 470; quite glabrous, leaves oblong or 
oblong-lanceolate or -ovate acuminate shining on both surfaces, cs 
rounded or cuneate, male cymes shortly peduncled much branched: qu! 
glabrous, drupes large solitary axillary ovoid hardly compressed qui 
glabrous. 
SOUTH ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz, King’s Collector. ; 
_A tree, 30-40 ft. Leares 5-8 in., very coriaceous, glossy above with 10-15 p 
of impressed nerves, reticulate beneath ; petiole }—} in. Male fl. and drupe as 
G. reticulata, from which G. lucida differs chiefly in the larger more coriaceous 
glossy foliage, with more leaf-nerves. 
5*, HUMULUS, Linn. 
, Perennial, twining, scabrid herbs. Leaves opposite, lobed, palmatinerv® > 
stipules lateral, persistent. Flowers dicecious, males panicled; fem. m Pand 
iu the axils of the broad bracts of a catkin-like ovoid spike, bracteate the 
2-bracteolate. MALE FL. Sepals 5, imbricate. Stamens 5, adnate to 
