550 CXXXVI. URTICACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Laportea. 
SIKKIM Himataya; interior valleys, alt. 7-10,000 ft., J. D. H. 
This has the cymes in a very young state, and is, I think, a slight var. of L. ter- 
minalis with distinctly serrate (not toothed) leaves. 
3. L. crenulata, Gaud. in Freyc. Voy. Bot. 498; shrubby, dicecious, 
branches unarmed, leaves from broadly elliptic ovate oblong to elliptic 
lanceolate acute or acuminate, clothed beneath and often above wt 
small stinging hairs, entire or sinuate crenulate above the middle, base 
rounded or cordate, cymes short flexuous suberect, fem. pedicels cylindric, 
sepals subequal, achenes ovate erect. Wedd. Monogr. 183, t. 2 C, f. 5; 
DU. Prodr. xvi. i. 85; Brand. For. Flor. 404; Kurz For. Flor. n. 421; 
Bedd. Fl. Sylvat. t. 300 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 323; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 
i ii. 230. L. gigantea & latifolia, Gaud. l. c. t. 81. Urtica crenulata, 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 591; Wight Ie. t. 686; Wall. Cat. 4611. U. gigantea, 
Poir. ? Encycl. Suppl. iv. 994. U. sinuata, Blume? Bijd. 605. U. Churta, 
Ham. in Wall. Cat. 4608. Urera javensis & gigantea, Gaud. c. 496. 
U. crenulata & Commersoniana, Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, xin. 104, 
105. Dendrocnide crenulata, Mig. Pl. JungA. i. 31. 
TROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Sikkim eastwards, AssAM, the KHASIA Mrs. and 
southwards to PERAK. The Concan, Stocks. CEYLON, ascending to 5000 ft.— 
Distrrs, Sumatra, Malay Islands. 
Au evergreen shrub, 8-10 ft., or small tree; branches stout, terete, green. Lease 
9-12 in., largest 16 by 12 in., base acute obtuse cordate or notched, nerves D 
pairs; petiole stout, 1-4 in.; stipules ovate lanceolate, Cymes longer than the 
petioles, dichotomously branched ; flower-clusters remote, often unilateral; flowers 
subsessile. Male perianth 4-partite; fem. subcampanulate, lobes acute. Achene 
oblique, ventricose, seated on the minute perianth, crowned with the style. 
28. GIRARDINIA, Gaud. 
Herbs or undershrubs with stout stinging hairs. Leaves alternate, 
9-nerved, entire or lobed, serrate; stipules connate, foliaceous. Flowers 
dicecious or moncecious, clustered, clusters in simple or panicled spikes or 
heads armed with stinging hairs. Mark FL. Sepals 4-5, valvate. Siame 
4-5, inflexed in bud. Pistil/ode globose or cupular. FEM. FL. Perian 
tubular, ventricose, 2-3-toothed, at length split on one side. Ovary 
straight; stigma subulate, papillose; ovule erect. Achene broad, com" 
pressed, seated on the perianth, pericarp thickish. Seed sub-exalbuminoUs; 
cotyledons broad.— Species 7, Tropieal Asia and Africa. 
G. heterophylla, Dene. in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 151, t. 153; 9 or 
coarse herb armed with very long stout stinging hairs, leaves large bron 
cordate variously lobed often palmately. coarsely toothed Peo jem, 
stipules large 2-fid, cymes peduncled lower male subcylindric, PP 7 ing 
with capitate clusters. Wedd. Monogr. 161; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 100; 938 ; 
Mus. Bot. ii. 158; Brand. For. Flor. 404; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FL., 76; 
Gamble Mun. Ind. Timb. 393. Urtica heterophylla, Vahl Symb. wo 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 586; Wight Ic. t. 687 ; Wall. Cat. 4603. U. divert 
& horrida, Link. Enum. Hort. Berol. ii. 385. U. palmata, Hore: 
Ægupt. 159.— Rheede Hort. Mal. ii. t. 41. 
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TEMPERATE and SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Marri eastwards, ascende 
5000 ft. Assam, SILHET and southwards to BURMA; and from Mavu 
CENTRAL INDIA to TRAVANCORE. CEYL: N, not uncommon.— DISTRIB. Jav ranches 
A tall stout erect tuíted herb, 4-6 ft., with perenrial roots; stem and 
