Pouzolzia.] CXXXVI. URTICACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 583 
flexure, buds hence truncate. Leaves quite entire; primary nerves 3, 
simple, running to the tip of the leaf or near it. 
* Stem terminating in a bracteate spike the leaves becoming gradually 
acuta) ny smaller (upper leaves not greatly smaller in P. Wightii var. 
a). 
6. P. pentandra, Benn. Fl. Jav. 64, t. 14; nearly glabrous, stem 
terete below angular above, leaves rather membranous sessile or petioled, 
lower opposite oblong to linear-lanceolate obtuse acute or acuminate entire, 
Upper gradually smaller mostly alternate imbricate, stamens 5, fruit with 
3-broadly membranous wings. Wight Ic. t. 2096, No. 20; Blume Mus. 
Bot. ii, 242; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 240. Memorialis pentandra, Wedd. 
" DC. Prodr, xvi, ii. 235°; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 1148. M. ciliaris, Ham. 
mss.; Wedd. Monogr. 417. Urtica pentandra, Rorb. Fl. Ind. ni. 583; 
all. Cat. 4598 (excl, B); Wight Ic. i. 696. U. hippurioides, Grif. Itin. 
notes, 362. Gonostegia oppositifolia, Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Mose, 
1846, ii. 510, Hyrtanandra pentandra & javanica, Mig. Pl. Jungh. i. 25, 
and Fl. Ind. Bat. i.ii.26. Boehmeria melastomoides, Griff. Notul. 386 ; Lc. 
l. Asiat. iv. 563, f. 2. 
TROPICAL HIMALAYA from Kangra, eastwards to AssaM, the Knasta Mrs. and 
eats and southwards to Orissa and CANARA.— DisTRIB. Afghanistan, ? China, 
d Annual; stem stout, 2-3 ft., glabrous or hispidulous, erect or more slender and 
*cumbent, often branched. Leaves, cauline 1—4 in., base rounded or cordate, usually 
sid, nerves 3 strong, hispidulous beneath, margins ciliolate; stipules short; floral 
eaves linear-oblong ovate or cordate. Male fl. pedicelled, truncate in bud with a 
5oncave top, ciliate, with often hooked hairs at the flexure; fem. perianth simple or 
-3-winged, very variable.— The following forms all pass into one another. 
xa PENTANDRA PROPER; diffusely branched, stem prostrate below, leaves 
Roz » lanceolate or linear-oblong, floral similar but much smaller. P. pentandra, 
«lee. 
n Van. Stocksii, branches very slender flaccid quite glabrous, leaves glabrous or 
early so, lower floral larger. P. integrifolia, 8, Dalz. in Herb. Hook. Mem. pen- 
ndra Var. Dalzellii, Wedd in DC.l.e. P. Stocksii, Wight Ie. vi. p. 41, n. 18. 
t e Concan and Deccan.—I identify this by specimen and drawing in Herb. W ight; 
e is no figure of it in the Icones, and I do not understand Weddel's 
Citation, « Wight Ic. t. 2097, n. 28, sub ramosissima," which is, I think, true var. 
ramosissima, ,H. > 
tall AR. ramosissima, Wedd. in DC. L. c. 2353; stem glabrous or scaberulous, usually 
min robust and excessively branched above, floral leaves small ovate-cordate acu- 
The Ce > P. ramosissima, Wight Ic. t. 2095, f. 17, and P. Dalzellii, t. 2096, f. 21.— 
Voncan, 
cordate ‘ utegrifolia ; perfectly smooth and glabro 
of all i long-lanceolate acute soft, floral 3 in. ovate- 
ar per ectly smooth not ciliate. P. integrifolia, Dalz. mss.— 
Se-leaved flaccid form, unlike any other. . . 
"n Walkeriana ; stem tall erect or suberect glabrous, leavea 3-6 in. petioled 
fla i 1 > ar 2 
ceid lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate acuminate, base acute, floral petioled large 
hr i : E sye N . 1 l . 
P. ate, all smooth and scaberulous above, margins usually not ciliate, petiole 4—¢ iu. 
Memorialis aquatica, 
requ Mkeriana Wi 20: d glabra, f. 15. 
Wedd. Mon ogr. Ki Je. t. 2035, f do an 15535: , (excl. Syns. Moon, and var. 
Want): Hyrtanandra Walkeriana, Thwaites Enum. 261. Urtica pentandra 
any oj Cat. 459 B.—Ceylon.— The long petiole and acute leaf base are very unlike 
d Ordinary state of P. pentandra, but Thwaites sends specimens (No. 3372) with 
us, leaves 2-23 in. sessile base 
, ^ . 
lanceolate base cordate, margins 
The Conean ? Daizell. 
