Prainea.] OXXXVI. URTICACEZ. (J.D: Hooker) 547 
included; ovule erect, orthotropous. Fruit globose, of many dry abortive 
flowers and one or few oblong achenes enclosed in their enlarged fleshy 
perianths. Embryo exalbuminous, cotyledons plano-convex, radicle 
minute superior. 
P. scandens, King mss. 
Perak ; in dense forests, King’s Collector. 
_A climber, 50-100 ft.; stem 12-15 in, diam. Leaves 3-8 in., thinly coriaceous, 
elliptic. or obovate-oblong, quite smooth on both surfaces, yellowish brown when dry, 
base acute ; nerves 10-12 pairs, very slender; petiole 1—3 in., very slender. Male 
heads 4-1 in. diam., peduncle stout, 1-14 in.; bracts minute, hairy, long-stipitate. 
Fem. heads 14-2 in. diam. ; flowers $ in. long.— Habit of Conocephalus. 
24. HULLETTIA (Kurzu, p.479), King mss. 
Diccious shrubs, branchlets tomentose. Leaves alternate, quite entire, 
Penninerved; stipuies small. Flowers 10-12, sunk in cavities of axillary 
peduncled open funnel-shaped 3-4 lobed receptacles. Mare FL. Perianths 
oblong, tubular, connate below and with the receptacle, tip free, 2-lobed or 
‘toothed. Stamens 2, filaments connate in a column; anthers ovoid, erect. 
Pistillode 0. Vw. FL. Periunth tubular-clavate, mouth minute. Ovary 
"ee, clavate; style short, central, included, stigma minute; ovule erect, 
orthotropons. Fruiting receptacle subglobose or lobed, fleshy, 1-6 seeded ; 
pericarp membranous. Seed erect, subglobose or fiattened ; cotyledons sub- 
“qual, plano-convex, radicle minute included. dor thi 
Dr. King informs h ame Kurzia, which he originally proposed for this 
genus, is preoccupied and that he has replaced it by Hullettia, in recognition of Mr. 
ullett’s valuable contributions to a knowledge of the Singapore Flora. 
l H. Grifüthi j ; 1 ordate or rounded at the 
. ana King mss.; leaves C o or | ` t 
contracted base, peduncles elongate slender. Dorstenia Griffithiana, Kurz 
" Beng, As, Soc. Journ.; For. FL ii. 462. 
TENASSERIM ; at Mergui, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4676), Helfer (K. D. 4676). 
._ n evergreen shrub, branches stout. Leaves 8-16 in., cuspidate, er ane 
Pns undulate, shining above, scaberulous beneath ; nerves 15-20 pairs, very Strong 
Neat » Spreading ; petiole 1l in.; stipules subulate, tomentose. Peduncles 3-2i., 
pubescent, Fruiting receptacles 1-2 in. diam., velvety ; involucral bracts minute, 
reflexed, I p 
?. H. dumosa, King mss.; leaves acuminate at the base, peduncles 
“ery short stout. 
Prax, Scortechini, King’s Collector. 
‘Sit and general characters of H. Grifithiana. 
25. URTICA, Linn. 
Annual or erennial herbs, rarely suffruticose, with stinging hairs. 
Leaves opposites: toothed or lobulate, base 9-7-ner ved ; stipules late ral, free 
dr connate. Flowers mono- or dicecious, in axillary unisexua Str e 
4 Ogynous Cymose clusters. MALE FL. Sepals 4, ovate, imbricate. ^ M 
> Inflexeq in bud. Pistillode cupular. Fem. FL. Sepals 4, outer usually 
uch smaller. Ovary straight, stigma sessile or subsessile, feathery or 
Penicillate ; ovule erect, orthotropous. Achene embraced by the eke, S, 
Void or oblong, compressed, membranous or thinly crustaceous. ve erect, 
the pericarp, albumen scanty, cotyledons rounded.— Species 
a 
ut 30, temperate and subtropical. 
