490 OXXXVI. URTICACE®. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Streblus. 
like those of S. scaber, but much larger (2-4 in.), membranous, oblong to obovate, 
with rounded base, and male spikes 3-1 in. Fem. fl. unknown.—Probably not a 
Streblus. 
11. BROUSSONETIA, Tent. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, serrate or lobed; stipules lateral, 
deciduous. Flowers diccious, in solitary capitate or cylindric „spikes. 
Mark FL. Perianth 4-fid, or -lobed, valvate. Stamens 4, inflexed in bud. 
Pistillode minute. "FEM. FL. mixed with persistent bracts. Perianth ovoid er 
tubular, 3—4-toothed, persistent. Ovary included, stipitate ; style subulag » 
2-partite; ovule pendulous. Achenes in small heads, surrounded wit e 
bracts and perianths, stipitate, exserted, fleshy below crustaceous above; 
style excentric. Albumen scanty ; cotyledons oblong, equal, radicle ascending 
incumbent.— Species 2-3, Malayan, Chinese and Japanese. 
B. papyrifera, Vent. Table Régne Vég. i. 547; branchlets sub 
tomentose, leaves obliquely ovate or oblong acuminate entire or (young: 
sinuately 2-3-lobed and toothed scabrid above pubescent beneath. n , 
in DC. Prodr. xvii. 994; Brand. For. Fl. A10; Kurz For. Fl. n. 467; Dot. 
Mag. t. 2358; Andrews Bot. Rep. t. 488. 
MARTABAN and Ava HILLS, Kurz.—DisTRIB. Malay and Pacific Islands. Sin 
A small tree. Leaves 3-8 in., membranous; petiole 2-3 in. Male spikes ants 
cylindric, peduncled, pubescent. Fem. heads longer peduncled, globose, 4-3 in. ” 
tomentose. Fruit fleshy, red, shining, stipes long. 
12. ALLIEANTIEHUS, Thwaites. 
Trees, flowering after the leaves fall sap milky. Leaves alterna 
penninerved from the base; stipules lateral. Flowers diccious, "m + fd 
very long cylindric spikes, fem. capitate. MALE FL. Perianth * ed 
imbricate. Stamens 4, inflexed in bud. Pistillode minute. FEM. FL. Tory 
with persistent bracts. Perianth tubular, 4-toothed, persistent. ale 
sessile; style elongate, undivided or with a short basal branch ; ov ed 
pendulous. Achenes in globose tomentose heads, oblique, sessile, SUITOUP 
with bracts and perianths, coriaceous. Seed exalbuminous; embryo recury , 
cotyledons broad plicate, radicle ascending incumbent.—Species 2 or 9 
Indian, Malayan and Cingalese. 
l. A. zeylanicus, Thwaites in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. (1855) paa 
t. 9 B, and Enum. 263; branchlets pubescent, fem. heads solitary. u 
in DC. Prodr. xvii. 223; Bedd. Fl. Sylvat. t. 307. 
CEYLON ; in the Central Province, alt. 1-2000 ft. . :stichous 
A deciduous tree, 30—40 ft. ; branchlets terete, hairy. Leaves 3-4 iD., die ales 
hairy, cordate-lanceolate, acuminate, paler beneath; petiole } in., hairy; " p 
obliquely oblong, acuminate, striate. Fem. heads } in. diam., stoutly pedunc'ec- 
ds 
2. A. Kurzii, Hook. f.; branchlets quite glabrous, fem. hea 
cymose. Malaisia tortuosa, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 466 (not of Blume). 5 A657). 
Assam, Masters; at Goalpara, Clarke. Burma, Griffith (Kew D istrib. 
PzGv to TzNASSERIM, Kurz. :4. in shortly 
Branchlets very long, terete. Leaves not seen. Male spikes 1-13 in., » diam» 
ped uncled subracemose clusters, pendulous; bracts orbicular. Fem. heads $ sd acute, 
1-6 in a raceme, pubescent. Achenes 6-12 in a head, not protruded, oc , 
coriaceous; style very long, undivided; cotyledons subequal, broad, thin, inc 
