Boehmeria.] CXXXVI. URTICACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 575 
33. PROCRIS, Juss. 
Succulent herbs or shrubs, often epiphytic, with the characters of E/ato- 
stema, but the male flowers in axillary cymes or clusters, the fem. only 
mg on a receptacle. Achene ovoid or elliptic, striolate.—Species 5 or 6, 
Asiatic, African and Polynesian. 
l. P. levigata, Blume Bijd. 508; quite glabrous, leaves obliquely 
oblanceolate acuminate entire or crenate-serrate above the middle, flowers 
from the naked branches, males in small sessile clusters, fem. in shortly 
peduncled small recepts. Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 192; Thwaites Enum. 
200; Mig. FL Ind. Bat. i. ii. 948; Hook. Ie. Pl t 1295. P. Wightiana, 
Wall. Cat. 4638; Wedd. Monogr. 336.5 Elatostema levigatum, Hassk. 
ud Hort. Bogor. 79. E. Wightianum, Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, i. 
Sikkim HIMALAYA, alt. 1-4000 ft, J. D. H., and Bnoraw, Clarke, Kasia 
and Mrsgyr HiLrs, alt. 1-4000 ft., Griffith, &c. MuNNIPORE, Clarke. DECCAN 
ENINSULA, Wight. CEYLON, ascending to 6000 ft.—Disrris. Java, Borneo, Tro- 
Pleal Africa. 
A succulent epiphytic undershrub, 2-5 ft. high; stem as thick as the thumb 
9W.- Leaves 6-10 in., narrowed into the short petiole. Fem. recepts }-} 10., 
Peduncles 13 in, Achenes ovoid, slightly compressed.—Subopposite or alternating 
minute leaflets occur, but not constantly, in this and the following. 
la 2. P. frutescens, Blume Bijd. 510; leaves oblong-obovate or ob- 
] Neeolate cuspidate nearly entire, male cymes lax-fld., fem. heads solitary 
ioe: Wedd. Monogr. 335; DO. Prodr. xvi. i. 192; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 
Elatostema frutescens, Hassk. Hort. Bogor. 79. 
PrvANG, Porter, Curtis. —DtisTRIB. Java, Borneo. . . 
peti i: epiphyte; stem woody below, branches succulent. Leaves 6-8 in., very thick ; 
ole žin. Male fl. not seen. Fem. heads à in. diam. Achenes ellipsoid. 
34. BOEHMERIA, Jacq. 
. Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite and alternate, toothed, 3-nerved ; 
pee usually free, Flowers in unisexual axillary or spiked racemed or 
mene clusters. Mate. FL. Perianth 3-5-lobed or -parted, valvate. h^ 
tubul 3-5, inflexed in bud. Pistillode clavate or globose. FEM Fr. Perianth 
ine] dei -4-toothed, fruiting sometimes angled winged or swollen. Or ary 
ü ed ; Stigma filiform, persistent; ovule erect. Achene closely investe 
ne Perianth, crustaceous, at length free. Seed albuminous; cotyledons 
oy . 
Aie. Species about 45, chiefly tropical. 
* 
Flower clusters axillary. Leaves opposite or alternate. 
wS. malabari r 55; Prodr. xvi. i. 203; 
»N ca, Wedd. Monogr. 355; DC. Pro i í 
vicious, leaves alternate subequal M the alternate smaller elliptie pr 
Tound 05'ong acuminate or caudate crenulate or serrulate from above d e 
rit ed or cordate base glabrous above pubescent beneath, clusters axi ar y 
Fl, iE Perianth elliptic or roundish pubescent, margins obtuse. Kurz un 
(B. rami 2; Thwaites Enum, 260. B. travancorica, Bedd. For. Man. 225 
X miflora), t. 27, f£. 2. Urtica malabarica, Wall. Qat. 4610. U. aquatica, 
Cat. Ceyl. Pi, 62. 
Si ; 
vou" Maraya, ascending to 5000 ft., J. D. H., &c. MISHMI Hiris, Griffith. 
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