Balanostreblus.] cxxxvi. URTICACER. (J. D. Hooker.) 545 
_Branchlets pubescent and rough. Leaves 1-3 in., very coriaceous, deep green, 
elliptic, orbicular, oblong, subrhomboid or lanceolate, tip and teeth spinescent, base 
acute or obtuse, subequal ; nerves few or many pairs, straight, reticulate and anasto- 
Mosing. Spikes l in.; male very dense-fld.; bracts rounded, ciliolate. Drupe red, 
tubercled and wrinkled, glabrous. 
22. CONOCEPHALUS, Blume. 
Climbing shrubs often very large. Leaves alternate, simple, quite 
entire, penninerved, and sometimes 3-nerved ; stipules connate, intra- 
Petiolar. Flowers dicecious, in axillary usually cymose heads. Mate rr. 
ertanth tubular or turbinate 4-lobed or -partite, valvate. Stamens 2-4, 
erect in bud. Pistillode small. Fem. ru. Perianth oblong. or clavate, 4- 
obed. Ovary included ; style undivided, stigma linear oblique or recurved ; 
ovule erect, orthotropous. Acheneincluded. Seed erect, testa membranous, 
albumen scanty or 0; embryo straight; cotyledons fleshy or thin, equal, 
icle short superior.—Species about 10, Tropical Asiatic and Malayan. 
The species of this genus are (all but C. suaveolens) very imperfectly described. 
l. C. suaveolens, Blume Dijl. 483; glabrous, leaves elliptic ovate 
oblong or subobovate obtuse obtusely cuspidate or acuminate, base acute 
obtuse rounded or cordate glabrous or puberulous on one or both surfaces, 
la e m excessively branched cymes, heads very small, fem. of 3-5 much 
"ger heads, fem. fl. very shortly pedicelled oblong obtusely 4-tootbed. 
3 urz For, Fl ii. 430; Benn. Pl. Rar. Jav. 47,5. 12; Miq. FT. Ind. Bat. 
para C. ovatus, pubescens, Roxburghii & suaveolens, Trecul in Ann. Se. 
t Ios". 3, viii, 87-90, t. 2, f. 37-41. C. naucleiformis, Lindl. Bot. Rej. 
I 203. C. gratus, Mig. Pl. Jungh. i. 43. Urtica nancleiflora, Roxb. Fi. 
Md. iii. 657; Wight Ie. t. 684; Wall. Cat. 4624; Griff. Notul. iv. 385. 
Tr Tropical forests of the EASTERN HIMALAYA and the Kuasra Mrs., southwards to 
NASSERIM and Matacca.—Disrris. Malay Islands, Cambogia. 
in mmense climber ; shoots glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Leaves 6-10 Y 
bas m. dotted and streaked with cystoliths ; nerves 8-12 pairs, above the very sho! 
in b ; Petiole 2-6 in, ; stipules large, rusty-brown, smooth. Male heads 4 in. jam., 
im ^d shortly peduncled dichotomous cymes; stamens 3-4, Fem. heads 1 m. 
Am. ; : : ; - sh- 
"E Tracts rounded, concave, opposite, deciduous.— Flowers sweet scented, fle 
Au amoenus, King mss.; quite glabrous, branches very stout, leaves 
el by 5-7 in. elliptic or broadly oblong-ovate obtuse shortly 5-7-nerved at 
c ? cordate base, nerves 12-15 pairs above the basal, petiole 3-5 in., malo 
tings with very short thick branches, heads } in. diam. pink, flowers sess! 
edi lar angular 4-toothed, stamens 4, fem. heads fewer |-2 in. iam. 
toes as thick as the little finger, flowers shortly pedicelled shortly 4- 
Urtica superba & amoena, Wall. Cat. 4625, 4626. 
NANG, Porter, PERAK, Scortechini, King’s Collector. 
3. €. Scortechinii, King mss uite glabrous, branches slender 
-3 glabrous, 
NH, leaves 3-6 in, shortly petioled diliptic-oblong or -lanceolate and 
6g Rate or subobovate and cuspidate, base acute or rounded, nerves 
ve Pairs basal 0, petiole 1-1 in., male cymes excessively branched, heads 
stamens and numerous 2 in. diam., perianth 4-lobed (or partite 7), 
s 
4, filament very broad, fem. cymes sparingly branched, heads 
