584 CXXXVI. URTICACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Pouzolzia. 
sessile round-based leaves. Wallich’s specimens are from the Calcutta Botanical 
Garden. 
: hoary or 
7. P. Wightii, Benn. Pl. Jav. Rar. 66; stem tall stout y 
pubescent, lower leaves opposite or 3-nately whorled sessile or petioled from 
shortly oblong to narrowly lanceolate more or less scabri La ove, uppe 
similar or gradually smaller lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate often i A , 
stamens 4, fruit grooved wingless or broadly winged, wings opaque hairy. 
Throughout the WxsrERN DECCAN from the Concan southwards, Heyn A than 
A taller usually more robust pubescent and larger leaved and Dractec p an Under 
P. pentandra, always tetrandrous, with leaves more or less scabrid a ove And 4 
this must be included all the Deccan species with the leaves shorter e the nore 
stamens. As with most other species its extreme forms are very definable, 
marked are 
P. WIGHTII PROPER; stem pubescent or puberulous, leaves iancoolate ee 
usually rounded hardly scabrid above, transverse nervules aii aera Te t. 2093, 
more or less hairy above the flexure. P. Wightii, Benn. l. e Wig! M - 9005, 
f.8. P. ternata, Benn, l. e. ; Wight L c. 2093, f. 7. P. ambigua, Wight l e. 2095 
f. 19. P. trialata, Wight l. e. 2097, f. 22. P. concinna, Wight Lei 8 Wedd. 
Memorialis ternata & ambigua, Wedd. Monogr. 422, 430. M. corda e" iirensis, 
Monogr. t.13 A. M. concinna, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. 1, 235%. M. "Wall Cat. 
B. trialata & £. ternata, Wedd. in DC. l. c. Urtica ternata, Heyne in Wi Mi and 
4599.—I find no difference between the type specimens of Bennett's P. Wig 
ternata, and have retained the former of these names. . mooth above 
Var. levifolia ; stem pubescent, leaves oblong-lanceolate coriaceous s except the 
harshly tomentose beneath with strong cross-nervules, male sepals glabrons Wight.— 
tips. P. nilghirensis, Wight Ic. t. 2096, f. 26 in part.—lyamallay Hl smoot 
This which is marked P. nilghirensis in Wight’s Herb. differs in the perfectly 
upper surface of the leaves, : iptie 
P Var. nilghirensis ; stem harshly tomentose or scabrid, leaves coriaceous e 
ovate oblong or oblong-lanceolate subacute acute or acuminate scabrid abov P. ovata, 
beneath, transverse nervules strong, male sepals hirsute above the flexure. v morislis 
oblongifolia & neilgheirensis, Wight Ic. t. 2097, f. 24, f. 25 and f. 26. B, and £)- 
nilghirensis, Wedd. Monogr. 428; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 235* (excl. vars. B, Y 
—Nilghiri and I amallay Hills, Wight. eaves, 
Var. Wallichiana ; characters of var. nilghirensis with ovate-lanceolate or 
but floral leaves closer and longer, and male sepals glabrous, as 1 VAN allichiana, 
P. Wallichiana, Wight Ic. t. 2096, f. 23. Memorialis nilghirensis, varie leaves 8$ 
Wedd. i» DC. l.e. Nilghiri and Iyamallay Hills.— Wight describes OM P very 
nearly glabrous above but all the named specimens in his Herbarium hav No dou 
scabrid. Possibly the levifolia is the Wallichiana of his description: i describes 
intermediates between these three last forms are common. Wig support. 
Wallichiana as shrubby and 10-12 feet high in the Nilghiris, but seeking vite Janceo- 
Van. longifolia; stem scaberulous not elongating at the tip, leaves us beneath, 
late from a cordate base membranous subscaberulous above puberu "te above the 
upper rather smaller than the lower, flowers all axillary, male sepals Du Memorialis 
flexure. P. acuta, Wight Ic. t. 2092, f 2, and P. longifolia, 2093, f. Wi jt).—Mala- 
ambigua, Wedd. Monogr. 430, DC. Prodr. l. c. 235° (exel. Syn. ton does not 
bar, &c.—This is I think only a form of Wightii proper, in which the § 
elongate into a bracteate spike. 
8. P. scabra, Wight Ic. t. 2097, f. 29; scabrid all MAR ; 
erect, leaves opposite or ternately whorled sessile rigid from eh inal 
acute to ovate-lanceolate, flowers in slender or stout axillary te, 8 
panicled spikes, bracts 4-2 in. ovate or cordate-ovate acum '£, 18. 
fruit scabrid cordate 2-winged. P. aspera, Wight Ll. c. t. 2095, 
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