Fleurya.] CXXXYL URTICACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 549 
cate or cuneate, cymes spiciform or paniculate, usually mnch larger than 
the petiole, fem. perianth cupular, 4-lobed or -toothed stipitate, style 
unequally 3-lobed. Wedd. Monogr. 115, t. 1 A, f£. 9; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 74; 
Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 238; Wight Ic. t. 1975; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 
F. spicata & glomerata, Gaud. l. c. Urtica interrupta, Linn. Sp. Pl. 
985; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 985; Wight Ic. t. 692; Wall. Cat. 4693. U. java- 
nica, Blume Bijd. 503. U.affinis, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. 4, 69. 
U. lomatocarpa, Hochstett. in Bot. Zeit. xxxiii. 260. U. spicigera, Steud. 
omenct. ii. 736. Boehmeria javanica, Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bogor. 79. B. in- 
terrupta, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 342—Burm. Thes. Zeyl. t. 110, f. 1, 2. 
Knasra HItts, Griffith. Tavoy, Gomez. Matacca, Hallett. DxccAN PE- 
TINSULA, from the Concan southwards. CEYLON, common. —DISTRIB. Malay and 
Pacific Islands, China, Abyssinia, 
Stem 2—4 ft., erect, flexuous, furrowed, branched. Leaves 2-6 in., sparsely 
clothed with stinging hairs ; petioles as long as the blade; stipules 2-fid. Cymes 
6- n., very slender, erect, branchlets recurved. Fem. perianth compressed, 
i 
keeled 9n one side, the keel decurrent on the stipes, reflexed, exposing the cordate 
ene. 
27. LAPORTEA, Gaud. 
„Perennial herbs, shrubs or trees, with (sometimes very minute) stinging 
ars, Leaves alternate, entire or toothed, 3- or penninerved. Stipules in 
9bposite free or connate pairs. Flowers mono- or diccious, in axillary 
paniculate usually unisexual cy mes or racemes, upper cymes usually very 
long and male, flowers and fruit often reflexed. Mate FL. Sepals 4-5, sub- 
Valvate. Stamens 4-5, inflexed in bud. Pistillode clavate or subglobose. 
EM. FL. Perianth-lobes or segments 4, subequal or outer small, one some- 
times absent, Ovary at length oblique; style linear, papillose on one side ; 
ovule erect, Achene oblique, flattened or compressed, membranous or 
eshy, Seated on the perianth, sometimes obliquely stipitate. Seed sub- 
ae >Uminons, cotyledons broad.—Species about 25, Asiatic, Australian, 
"ean and a few North American. 
b Sect. I. Scrersion, Wedd. Fem. sepals 4, very unequal; pedicels 
Toadly winged. 
l. L. ter t Ie. t. 1972; herbaceous, glabrous or pubes- 
Tae stinging hate fo a maa, leaves orbicular to oblong-obovate or 
..nceolate acuminate coarsely toothed or serrate base rounded or sub 
cordate, male cymes axillary, fem. subterminal panicled long-peduncled, 
Diels spathulate broadly winged, fem. sepals very unequal, achenes 
parply deflexed. Wedd. Monogr. 125, t. 2 C, f.1. L.evitata, Wedd. in 
Mr 
smooth, pubescent or 
Sca : : * etincei airs on both surfaces; 
berulous above, very variable in the amount of stinging hairs the petioles, 
Petiole slender, 13-6 in.; stipules X 
Pedum [es Sepals subequal, pubescent. Fem. cy 
pu cied; branches and branchlets divaricate ; 
scent, Achene slightly tubercled on the faces. 
2. X. ol Wi 141, and in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 87 ; 
* Oleracea edd. Monogr. , an . . 
srarly glabrous and stingless, leaves broadly ovate acuminate coarsely 
te base rounded subcordate or cuneate. 
