Pilea. 
] CXXXVI. URTICACE®. (J. D. Hooker.) 555 
Nizenter Mrs., i 
S., in the hi , 
+000 ft —Diste TB. higher ranges, Wight, &c. CEYLON; Central Province, alt. 
m 4-18 in., stout ] i : 
base round nu orslender. Leaves 1-3 in., flaccid, very variable i 
trimgolae & Subacute ; petiole usually about half the length of the blade; pee 
spurred; fem d es shorter or longer than the leaves, erect; male sepals broad 
aboot a in. DE in small clusters or open panicled cymes. Achene ovoid straight, 
distinguish betue sometimes hardly longer than the perianth.—I find it difficult to 
as referred Mad this and more glabrous forms of P. umbrosa, to which Weddell 
small stipules t of the Himalayan specimens, Except by the coarse serratures and 
anthority for” P raat, ashy distinguished from P. bracteosa. Weddell is my 
Weddell to P. sire geni being „a synonym. — Urtica obesa, Wallich, referred by 
perhaps to the following vary glabrous, is, I think, rather referable here, and 
AR. maerophylla ; leav . 
sessile or shes 1 ; leaves 4-6 in. deeply obtusely serrate, petiole 2—4 in., cymes 
Wight. shortly peduncled.— Nilghiris, in the Ochterlony Valley, King ; Courtallam, 
Var. ? ; 
hairy above alei; very small, stem slender, leaves very few rounded cvate, sparsely 
and Gare hal RS few large. Procris racemosa, Royle Ill. t. 83, f. 1.— Kumaon 
a depanperated ; —10,000 ft., Royle, Duthie. ? Sikkim, J. D. H.—This looks like 
Provimata; it ma orm of high elevations. I have alluded to it under P. ap- 
at the end 5 DAY e a distinct species, but better specimens are wanted. Weddell 
that species, ris, refers it to Pilea Wightii, but the synonym is not taken up under 
l. . . 
236 ; in Stipulosa, Miquel in Zoll. Syst. Verz. 102; Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 
petioled clint. glabrous, or leaves very sparsely hairy, leaves 3-4 in. long- 
or toothed E ic or oblong-ovate acute or acuminate 3-nerved coarsely serrate 
short, fom ase cuneate or rounded, stipules large oblong, peduucles ver 
onogr. 259 pals subequal orbicular, achenes minute smooth. Wedd. 
angulata BI, . petiolaris, Wedd. in Ann. Se. Nat. Ser. 4, i. 186. P. 
mida Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 55; Thwaites Enum. 259; Wedd. in DC. 
Bijd, 494 ui 131 (excl. Khasia d Sikkim). Urtica angulata, Blume 
nia * U. stipulosa, Mig. Pl. Jungh. 28. 
Tall miha eiker, Thwaites (C.P. 2184).—DISTRIB. Java. 
very few hai stout species with the habit of P. umbrosa, but glabrous or with a 
Orbienlar fem 1 on the upper surface of the leaves, large green stipules and equal 
ale sepals like those of P. Hookeriana. Thwaites refers Blume's P. 
Jgrophil, : 
concerned. ae no doubt rightly as far as the Ceylon specimens of that plant are 
i , escribes it as very variable. Weddell refers Sikkim and Khasia 
ut none of these have the equal fem. 
Specim 
Sepa Waited by me to this species, b 
Sepa] of the E it’s Loochoo plant, referred to stipulosa by Miquel, differs in the dorsal 
emale being as long as the achene. 
245; DC. Prodr. xvi. 1. 134: 
leaves 2-4 in. long petioled 
serrate serratures 
12, 
glabrous bracteosa, Wedd. Monogr. 
elliptic ora doaves with a few sparse hairs, 
shallow ofte or elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acuminate seri 
ong persi te apiculate 3-nerved, base rounded or cuneate, stipules large ob- 
sistent, peduncles long, fem. dorsal sepals longest, achenes minute 
Near 
126. Y smooth edges acute. P P. oxyodon, Wedd. Monogr. 222; DC. le. 
Wallich, to Mishmi, alt. 4-7000 ft. 
Tem 
FERATE HIMALAYA; from Nepal, 
Munnipore, alt. 5-8000 ft., Clarke. 
Kuras 
"d hrs, alt. 3-5000 ft., Griffith, &c. 
eaves usual? sometimes rather woody below and often warted (by disease). 
Stipules lu small, reticulate beneath, base sometimes notched ; petiole 1-2 in. ; 
Straight with 4 Cymes variable; peduncle usually very slender. Achene 5 in., 
, an obscure intramarginal ridge.— The fem. perianth distinguishes this 
