Pilea. ] CXXXVI. URTICAcEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 553 
4. P. Clarkei, Hook. J:; dwarf, nearly glabrous, dicecious, leaves 
3-14 in. in unequal pairs oblong ovate or lanceolate obtuse or subacute 
oblique or not sparingly serrate 3-nerved base cordate, cymes erect longer 
than the leaves sparingly branched, sepals half the length of the minute 
straight turgid orbicular-ovate smooth achene. 
Sikkim HIMALAYA; at Tchonpong, alt. 5000 ft., Clarke. 
Stems 3-6 in., simple or much branched, leafy. Leaves membranous, smaller from 
alf to two-thirds the size of the larger; petiole about half as long as the blade, 
Stipules broadly ovate obtuse. Cymes usually long-peduncled. Achene 44 in. long, 
pale, sometimes hardly longer than the broadly ovate or narrowly oblong dorsal 
pal, 
C. Leaves 3-nerved, subwhorled at the top of the stem, very unequal. 
5. P. approximata, Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xv. 123; quite 
glabrous, dicecious, stem short naked below, leaves crowded and almost 
Whorled at the top of the stem lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate coarsely 
serrate 3-nerved, petioles very unequal, cymes very small on very long 
peduncles often subglobose few-fld., achenes smooth. P. ternifolia £., 
Herb, Ind. Or. H., L&T. 
TEMPERATE Srk rM. HIMALAYA, alt. 710,000 ft., J. D. H., Clarke, Treutler. — 
tem 4-8 in. from a tuberous base, slender. Leaves 1-4 in., very variable in 
length, lower pair sometimes distant, smaller ovate and oblong, obtuse, all the upper 
crowded and spreading, base rounded or subcordate; petiole 3—$ in. ; stipules minute. 
edunele of cymes much longer than the petiole; male sepals broad, shortly mu- 
cronate ; fem. very unequal, narrow, one or more nearly as long as the minute 
straight achene.—Mr. Duthie sends from the Jumna Valley (No. 580), Kumaon, 
y Dung plants of what may be a form of this with ovate leaves } in. long, or is perhaps 
' Wightii, var, Roylei. 
D. Leaves 3-nerved, those of each pair subequal, quite or nearly entire. 
6. P. smilacif Wedd. in Aun. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, i. 186 ; Monogr. 
181; pc. Prodr. id 1 ; suffruticose, quite glabrous, dicecious, branches 
tpetlar, leaves elliptic-lanceolate acuminate quite entire (rarely serrate at 
&. tip) 3-nerved, cymes shortly peduncled, achenes smooth. P. Gog ne 
glaberrima, Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 53,54. P. miconisfolia, Mig. in Zoll. 
An Verzs. 106; Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 235. U. glaberrima, Blume Bid. 
93. U. smilacifolia, Wall. mss. U. Goglado, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 4593. 
PAsTERN Tropica HIMALAYA ; from Sikkim to Mishmi, alt. 2-4000 ft. 
AM, Kitasra Mrs., Situ £v and CHITTAGONG.—DISTRIB. Java. bove, Leaves 
3- tems 2-4 ft., very robust, woody below, many-angled, branched a ove, Does 
stipulas? membranous, narrowed into a petiole 1—4 in, cross-nervu es £ i g; 
Pules triangular or lanceolate persistent. Cymes often in pairs, very varia lef 
ieee and form, short and dense-fld., or lax and dichotomously branched ; d . 
E fem. sepals much shorter than the achene. Achene gg i. long, "Piles 
Mjuely ovoid.— In many respects this approaches P. scripta. The names Pilea 
smi ; - | 
Hacifolig, & miconiefolia appeared in the same year. 
7. P. lancif . small, herbaceous,. quite glabrous, 
diecions, slender, leetes lomg-petinled subfalcately lanceolate acuminate 
satire or sparingly serrate towards the tip 3-nerved, cymes very slender 
<Patingly branched sometimes as long as the leaves, flower-clusters very 
Parse, achene smooth, 
