Pilea.] CXXXVI, URTICACER. (J. D. Hooker.) 557 
which are shortly spurred ; fem. cymes very short, subsessile ; achenes with rounded 
margins and the intramarginal ridge very indistinct. 
VaR. sarcocarpa; achenes with pulvinate rugose fleshy faces and a very thick 
smooth margin.—Assam, Jenkins, 
, I do not recognize Weddell’s var. stipularis with the stipules produced into a long 
pomt (Khasia Mts, Griffith) as founded on any stable character. In habit and 
achenes it approaches P. Hookeriana. The “ Urtica tr iplinervis, Ham. mss.," cited 
by Weddell as a synonym of P. scripta, is an erroneous reading of Wallich’s ** 4590 
? U. triplinervis, Herd. Heyne.” 
15. P. Hookeriana, Wedd. Monogr. 226; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 128; 
quie glabrous, leaves 4-10 in. long-petioled broadly elliptic or elliptic-ovate 
to orbicular acuminate or caudate faintly obtusely serrate 3-nerved, base 
acute or rounded, stipules large oblong green, cymes sessile or subsessile, 
male fl. in large globose heads, fem. sepals 3 orbicular subequal, achene 
minute smooth or granular green not margined. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 1—4000 ft., J. D. H., Treutler, Clarke. Kuasta Mrs., 
at Mongpo, alt, 2000 ft. Kohima in the Naca HILIs, alt. 5500 ft., Clarke. 
A tall robust monæcious or diccious species, 6 ft. high, with stem as thick below 
as the middle finger. Leaves membranous, rarely strongly serrate, cross-nervules 
istant; petiole 2-5 in. ; stipules 4-1 in., tip rounded. Male cymes very shortly 
Peduncled ; flowers large in globose heads }~} in. diam. ; sepals not spurred; fem. 
emes sessile, branches short, dense-fld. ; sepals ciliolate. Achenes yz in., dark green, 
Some quite smooth and dry, others with a granular herbaceous coat. 
. 16. P. trinervia, Wight Ic. t. 1973; quite glabrous, stem very stout 
Internodes swollen, leaves 3-6 in. from oblong-lanceolate to broadly elliptic 
‘cuminate or caudate serrulate 3-nerved, base acute cuneate or rounded 
rarely notched or cordate, stipules caducous, cymes long or short peduncled 
usually much branched, fem. dorsal sepal much the longest, achene granular, 
Margins obtuse. Wedd. Monogr. 224; DC. Prodr. xvi.1. 127. P. melasto- 
modes, Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, 1. 186. 
Deccan PENINSULA; damp forests of the Nilghiris and other hills. CEYLON; 
mmon, ascending to 5000 ft., Thwaites.—DıstRIB. Malay Islands ? 1 
very robust succulent monecious herb, probably 4-5 ft. high ; internodes close, 
Swollen when fresh, but when dried narrower than the nodes. Leaves very variable 
. Shape, cross-nervules close-set ; petiole 1-6 in. Male cymes often widely spread- 
mg, corymbiform and 6 in. across; flowers scattered or in globose clusters; sepals 
"Purred, em. cymes usually slender. Achene 3; in., margins obscurely thickened. 
"i is the only Indian species with the internodes short fleshy and OY Weddell 
a Ickened,— hesitate to quote under this the Javan species referred to it by Bat e 
ad Miquel, viz, P. pellucida, melastomoides and oreophila, Blume (Mus. o i ie 
R ; £. elongata, Miq. ; and peduncularis, Smith in Rees Cyclop. With regard 
oxburgh’s Urtica trinervia (FI. Ind. iii, 582) of Chittagong, also referred here 
b n i . H H K 47, f; B l- 
mor duel and Weddell, Wight says that it is not his P. trinervia, but a Boeh 
co 
7. P. pac . Monogr. 225; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 128; 
quite glabrous Dauer px: M “tliptie acuminate serrulate 2-nerved, base 
acute or rounded, stipules small triangular persistent, cymes smal] shortly 
e Uncled, fem. dorsal sepal longest, achene straight rather large with a 
*Daceous coat covered with depressed tubercles. 
Assan, Griffith, Jenkins. 
Le rently a large branched species, 
s rather stiff, cross-nervules not very close 
ith the stem as thick as the little finger. 
—— e; petiole l-l} in. AcAenes 4*5 in. 
