580 cxxXVI. URTICACEÆ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Boehmeria. 
B. CUSPIDATA, Bl., from Nepal. 
B. SPICIFLORA, Bl. (Caturus spiciflorus, Herb. Jacq. f.. not of Linn.), East 
Indies. 
B. HUGELIANA, Bl., East Indies, Hugel. 
B. SUBPERFORATA, Wedd. Monogr. 383 (Urtica subperforata, Wall.) 
35. CHAM ABAINIA, Wight. 
A slender diffuse herb. Leaves opposite, toothed, 3-nerved ; stipules in 
pairs large, orbicular, scarious, enclosing the young flower-clusters, per- 
sistent. Flowers 4-merous, in axillary clusters; perianth, &c., as in Beh- 
meria, but stigma ovate fimbriate spreading. 
C. cuspidata, Wight Ic. t. 1981; Wedd. Monogr. 387, t. 12. C. 
squamigera, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 218. Bechmeria squamigere, 
Wedd. in Ann. Se. Nat. Ser. 4, i. 203. Urtica squamigera, Wall. Cat. 
4592. 
Tropica, HIMArAYA; Garwhal, alt. 2-7000 ft., from Kumaon eastwards to Sikkim, 
alt. 4-8000 ft. Kuasta Hinrs, alt. 4-5000 ft. Nirenteri1 HILLS, Wight, &c. 
CEYLON, Thwaites. . $ 
Stem rooting and branching, more or less pubescent, branches ascending. Leaves 
1-2 in., membranous, ovate, acute, serrate, base rounded or cuneate 3-nerved, glabrous 
or sparsely pubescent above, more so beneath; petiole 2-4 in.; stipules 4 at ie 
node, very conspicuous, brown when dry. Male fl. in the upper axils, shortly P ‘ 
celled ; sepals hairy, mucronate. Fem. fl. in dense clusters; bracteoles small, «i 
ceolate; perianth hirsute, compressed. Achene compressed, ovate, acute.—Close y 
resembles Droguetia diffusa in habit and foliage. 
96. POUZOLZIA, Gau. 
Characters of Boehmeria, but with the flowers in axillary clusters, never 
in naked spikes, and the slender style jointed on to the top of the ovary an 
deciduous.—Species estimated at about 50, but reduceable to a very muc 
smaller number, all tropical, chiefly Asiatic. 
The Indian species of this genus are extraordinarily variable, and have vet 
inordinately multiplied by Wight and Blume, the former of whom, however, ths 
detected the fact overlooked by previous authors, that winged and wingless perian in 
occurred in fruits of the same clusters. Bennett’s deseriptions of Wallich s species 
the * Flora Javæ " are quite insufficient, and overlooked the facts that Mor eus 
wingless fruits afforded no specifie character, and that tetrandrous and pentan rk 
flowers was a remarkably constant one; it is further evident that he did not wor 
upon the original set of Wallich’s plants in the Linnean Society, for the numbers e 
habitats of some of these plants which he eites, on Wallich's authority, are not ar to 
attached to the specimens in that Society’s possession. Weddell does not APP hern 
bave consulted Wallich’s Herbarium, or he could not have confounded the nor Pin 
P. hirta (or quinquenervis) with the common Deccan species. I have vere his 
tunate in finding in Wighbt’s Herbarium types of all the species he figure Indian 
Icones. These were evidently published in great haste, at the very end of his enus is 
career, and without due consideration ; in which respect his treatment of the g 
a remarkable deviation from the standard of that invaluable work. " 
Phenax pentandrus, Blume (P. Sonneratii, JWedd.; Pouzolzia Sonneratil g been 
widely distributed tropical American plant closely allied to Pouzolzia, im 
collected in India (Madras?) by Sonnerat and by Helfer in Tenn 
Distrib. 4581). It differs from Pouzolzia in the minute fem. periant round the 
spicuonsly in the numerous broad imbricating scarious bracts which sur 
lowers, 
