Villebrunea.) CXXXVI. URTICACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 589 
39. PIPTURUS, Weddell. 
, Trees or shrubs, erect or climbing. Leaves alternate, 9—5-nerved ; 
stipules bifid. Flowers moncecious or dicecious, in spicate or panicled clus- 
ters; bracts minute. MALE FL. Perianth 4—5-fid, valvate. Stamens 4-5. 
Pistillode woolly. FEM. FL. on an at length fleshy receptacle. Perianth 
ovoid, narrowed to a minute mouth. Ovary adherent to the perianth; 
stigma linear, elongate; ovule erect. Achene free within the thinly fleshy 
penanth. Albumen scanty; cotyledons broad.—Species 8, Malayan, 
Masvarene, Australian and Pacific. 
1. P. mollissimus, Wedd. Monogr. 449; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 2359/9; 
leaves elliptic or obovate, tip subacute or rounded, base rounded cuneate 
or subcordate quite entire puberulous above tomentose beneath, fl. clusters 
in short spikes. Urtica mollissima, Blume Bijd. 501; Wall. Cat. 4609. 
PzNANG, Porter, Curtis. PERAK, Scortechini.—DISTRIB. Java. 
Branches terete, woody, scurfily tomentose. Leaves 3-5 in., rigid and grey-brown 
when dry; nerves 1-2 pairs above the basal; petiole 1-13 in. Spikes 1—4 in., 
solitary or fascicled, erect, hoary. 
2. P. velutinus, Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, 1.196; Monogr. 446, 
t. D, f. 4-5; hoary, subsilvery, leaves large long petioled broadly ovate or 
ovate-cordate crenate-serrate white beneath, fi. clusters in simple or 
branched axillary spikes. P. incanus, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 235%. 
Boehmeria velutina, Dene. Herb. Timor. 163. B. incana, Hassk. Cat. Hort. 
Bogor. 79, Urtica incana, Blume Bijd. 497. Morus paniculata, Koxb. FT. 
Ind. iii, 600; Wight Ic. t. 676. 
Nicopar Istanps, King’s Collector.—DisTR1B. Malay and Pacific Islands. — 
A tree or shrub, branches woody terete hoary, shoots hairy. Leaces 4-7 in. diam., 
White beneath with appressed tomentum, nerves several above the basal, cross- 
nervules many straight;  petiole slender, 2-5 in.; stipules ovate-lunceolate, 
a-cordate, caducous. Spikes usually shorter than the petiole, slender, hoary. 
Filaments long, recurved. Fem. perianths succulent, in fruit forming pisiform 
eads with long exserted curved styles.— This is the hitherto unrecognized Morus 
PeMCulata of Roxburgh, cultivated in the Calcutta Garden from seeds introduced 
tom the Moluccas. — 
40. VILLEBRUNEA, Gaud. 
Trees with the characters of Pipturus, but the leaves of some species 
Penninerved, the fem. perianth is adnate to the ovary, and the 
ab enes adnate to the perianth, the base of which only is fleshy.—Species 
“Pout 8, Indian, Malayan and Japanese. 
l. v. integrifolia, Gaud. Bot. Bonite Voy. t. 91; branches petioles 
cad leaves beneath pubescent or tomentose, leaves 6-14 in. elliptic-oblong 
udate quite entire or obscurely crenate penninerved. Blume Mus. Bot. 
ign; Wedd. Monogr, 452. V. appendiculata, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. 
late iy Oreocnide acuminata, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 427. Urtica appendicu 
, i. i , trandra, Wall. Cat. 
and 3695 F. Cat. 4604. Celtis elongata & tetra 
M TRopicar Stxxm HrxALAYA, Assam, the Kmasta MTS., SILHET, Burma, 
UNNIPORE, CHITTAGONG and TRNASSERIM; ascending to 4000 ft. Deccan 
ENINSULA. from the Concan, Stocks, southwards.— DISTRIB. ? Malay Islands. . 
evergreen tree, Leaves rather membranous, drying brown, nerves 8-15 pairs, 
are 
