551 CXXXVI URTICACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Pilea. 
. ; north of Boga pane, alt. 3000 ft., Clarke. 
Siem G8 im from a short. stiff creeping base, often branched from jhe base ; 
branches slender, terete. Leaves 2-3 by 1-3 in., not flaccid, base roun on Me 
cordate; petiole 4-4 in.; stipules triangular-ovate, obtuse. Achenes m ; 
orbicular, rather longer than the longest linear-oblong sepal, smooth. 
E. Leaves 3-nerved, those of each pair subequal, more or less crenate 
serrate or toothed (rarely entire in P. peploides). 
* Achenes quite smooth (mottled, as if rough, in P. pachycarpa). 
8. P. peploides, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. 96 ; very small, aftad, 
flaccid, branched from the base, glabrous, monæœcious, leaves ddl 3-nerved, 
orbicular-ovate tip rounded entire or crenate above the mi ‘tata dense. 
base cuneate, stipules obscure, cymes sessile androgynous ep 5 oloides, 
fid., achenes most minute smooth. Wedd. Monogr. 179. T P mea, 
var. B., Wedd. DC. Prodr. xvi.i. 109 ; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat.i. ii. P i PY eye. 
Mig. in Zoll. Syst. Verzsichn. 106. Dubrueilia peploides, Gaud. 
Voy. Bot. 495. 
Upper WESTERN HIMALAYA, Lahul and Zanskar, Watt. SIKKIM cn 
Gamble. CacHAR, Keenan, BURMA, at Mogoung, Grit (Kew Distrib. 
DISTRIB. Japan, Java, Sandwich and Galla ago Islands. . and 
Stems or branches 3-5 in., succulent, Maccid, leafy. Leaves $-i pP long 
broad, cuneate from the base to the middle; raphides transverse; Pr lobose, quite 
as the blade. Cymes i in. diam., lobed. Achene about ji in., subg 
smooth. 
i. i. 134; 
9. P. Symmeria, Wedd. Monogr. 246; DC. P rod. xn i ate 
quite glabrous or leaves rarely above sparsely hairy, leaves ate 3-nerve 
oblong- or ovate-lanceolate caudate-acuminate coarsely dn or short, 
base rounded or notched, stipules small deciduous, peduncles ong o neatly 
male fl. large, dorsal fem. sepal longest, achenes large flattene 
smooth, edges acute. 
; tiom 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 6—10.000 ft. ; Kumaon, Strachey g Winters, 
(No. 17). Sikkim, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4528), J. D. H., Clarke. 
Shillong, alt. 4400 ft., Clarke. o. Leaves mem- 
Erect from the base, 2-3 ft., slender, moncecious or dicecious. tely branched ; 
branous; petiole 1-3 in. Cymes very variable, when large panieula e y». less, with 
peduncle 3-3 in. Male fl. din. diam., rather scattered. Achene yz af bases an 
sometimes a faint intramarginal rough line, — Best distinguished by oe dell does not 
large achenes. The stipules are probably large and caducous. "does not differ 
describe the fruit, but says the fem. perianth is eupular; this ADR s or sepals.— 
from the ordinary form in the genus, of one long and two very short lobe arsely serrate 
Duthie's No. 3378, from Kumaon, alt. 910,000 ft., with large very co? te of 
. :. n6 a state ° 
leves subcordate at the base and small persistent stipules, 1s perhaps 
this. 
. , 205; 
10. P. Wightii, Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, i. 186 ; Mon alow, 
DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 125; quite glabrous, moncecious, stems ore g-nervedr 
leaves ovate or rounded ovate acute or acuminate coarsely lv branche an- 
stipules short or 0, cymes long-peduncled suberect loosely P. radicans, 
drogynous, flowers minute, achenes smooth or nearly s0. Urtica obesa, 
Wight Ic. t. 1974. P. Hugeli, Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 53. 
Wall. Cat. 4587. J, D. E. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich. Sikkim, alt. 4-7000 ft.» 
