‘582 CXXXVI. URTICACER. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Pouzolzia. 
Var. diffusa; creeping or prostrate or with the branches ascending, leaves all 
opposite elliptic or ovate, stamens usually 5, fruit ribbed and narrowly 4-winge . 
P. diffusa, Wight Ic. t. 2099, f.36; Wedd. Monogr. 394, and in DC. l. c. 226.— 
Nilghiris. . a. " 
Var. microphylla, procumbent, diffuse, leaves } in. opposite subsessile ovate acu 
base rounded or cordate appressed villous on both surfaces, fruit ribbed and narrow 
winged. P. microphylla, Wight Ic. t. 2098, f. 80; Wedd. Monogr. 397, and m 
DC. l. c. 227.—Malacca, Griffith. 
3. P. tuberosa, Wight Ic. vi. i. 43; root of large tubers, stems flaccid 
4-angled, leaves opposite below ovate to lanceolate acuminate hairy, stamen 
4, fruit smooth or ribbed. Wedd. Monogr. 402, and in DC. l. c. 222. 
Urtica tuberosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 583; Wight Ic. t. 697. 
The Crrcars, Roxburgh. . . th basal 
Root in Roxburgh’s drawing, copied by Wight, 6 by 23 in. diam. wit tiolo 
rootlets. Stems 1-6 ft., flaccid, prostrate or climbing. Leaves 1-3 in. Pe ich 
4-2 in.—Weddell (probably rightly) suggests this being a form of P. indica, uM tic 
the root according to Blume is somewhat tuberous. I have seen a rootless aut a 
specimen from Roxburgh in Herb. Bentham (from Herb. Forsyth); which in pd 
differs from P. indica ; and a specimen of P. indica in Herb. Wallich (under U’? 
glomerata, No. 4069) has a tuberous root 11 in. long. 
4. P. vesicaria, Wight Ic. vi. 43; shrubby, erect, stem 4-6 ft., stout, 
leaves alternate broadly lanceolate acuminate narrowed into the i or 
petiole, stamens 4, fruit with 6-7 basal inflated vesicles. Wedd. Mii 
414, and in DC. l. c. 222. Urtica vesicaria, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 587; W9 
Le. t. 695. 
The CrRoazs, Roxburgh. in.—Only 
Stem 4-6 ft., somewhat winding, bark smooth ashy. Leaves 2-3 by 1 m.— 
known from Roxburgh’s drawing and Wight’s copy of it. I quite expect that it is a 
form of P. indica. 
5. P. auriculata, Wight Ic. 1980, f. 2, and 2099, f. 37; cin 
alternate long or short petioled broadly or narrowly ovate or ovate a r. 
acute or acuminate, nerves many branching, stamens 5. edd. T. 
393, and in DC. L c. 225. P. Rheedii, Wight lc. t. 2099, f. 38. P. rosa» 
1980, f. 3, and 2099, f. 34. P. rotundifolia, t. 2068, f. 31. P. elliptica, t. 8. 
bicuspidata, f. 33, and scabrida, t. 2100, f£. 41. P. propinqua, Blume 
Bot. ii. 230. 
CENTRAL INDIA, at Singhboom, Clarke. EasTERN and SOUTHERN Dscoass 
Wight, &c. CEYLON, common. both 
Usually tall, stout or slender, flaccid or stout. Leaves 1-5 in., pubescent f which 
surfaces; petiole 1-3 in., base usually acute. Fruit strigose, very variable, n ica it is 
Wight’s figures represent the extremes, —thus in P. bicuspidata and ellip e TOW 
not winged; in rotundifolia the wings are semicordate ; in scabriada they i with 
from above the middle to the tip. Weddell makes two varieties, one of eee wings 
broad triangular wings truncate above ; the other of P. rostrata, with sima 
produced upwards. 
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VAR. cymosa, leaves all opposite short petioled, base rounded or cordate, n 
in short spreading cymes. P. cymosa, Wight Ic. t. 1979, f. 23 W edd. Mis ight, 
and in DC. l. e. 227. Elkania multinervis, Schlecht. mss..—Nilghiri d. pedun 
Clarke.— Different as extreme states of this with subsessile leaves and lax-fl . 
cymes are from P. auriculata, it is united to that species by intermediates. 
erianth usually 
Srcr. Il. Memoras. Lobes or segments of the male p d at the 
abruptly inflexed about the middle, transversely angled or plaite 
