590 CXXXVL URTICACER. (J. D. Hooker.) | Villebrunea. 
slender; petiole 1-6 in.; stipules silkily villons. Flower clusters globose, in small 
shortly peduncled dichotomously branched hispid cymes from the branchlets below the 
leaves, males 3-4-merous. Stigma plumose.— Weddell cites U. urophylla, Wall. Cat. 
437, under this species, but 1 do not find the name in the Catalogue, and No. 437 isa 
Tiarella. . 
Van. sylvatica; leaves 4-6 in., narrower oblong or oblong-lanceolate, entire or 
crenulate above the middle glabrous beneath or pubescent on the nerves only. 
sylvatica, Blume Mus. Bot, ii. 167, f. 16; Wedd. Monogr. 453, t. 15 C ; DC. Prodr. 
xvi. i. 235%. Boehmeria sylvatica, Hassk. Hort. Bogor. 79. Oreocnide sylvatica, 
Miquel Pl. Jungh. i. 405 Fl. Ind. Bat. i.i. 270; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 427; Beddome 
Forester’s Man. 225, t. 26, f. 4.—Sikkim, Assam, Burma, the Andaman and Nicobar 
Islands, the Western Ghats and Ceylon. 
2. V. frutescens, Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 168; branchlets pubescent, 
leaves 4-8 in. elliptic oblong lanceolate or ovate rarely almost rounde 
acuminate crenulate or serrate nearly throughout 3-nerved and penni- 
nerved, beneath ashy or white with woolly hairs or glabrate. Brand For. 
FL 406; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 332. Morocarpus microcephalus, Benth. i» 
Hook. Kew Journ, Bot. vi. (18) 74. Urtica frutescens, Roxb. Fl. Ind. in. 
589.—Urticea, Wall. Cat. 9091. . 
TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Kumaon eastwards, ascending to 5000 ft. in Sikkim. 
Kuasta Mrs., at Shillong, alt. 4000 ft., Clarke.—DrsrRis. Japan, China. 
A smalltree; branches very slender. Leaves membranous, sparsely pilose a e 
drying very dark ; cross-nervules often giving the under surface a tessellated a j 
petiole 3—4 in., and nerves very slender ; stipules 4 in., lanceolate, pubescent. s 
Ji. in subsessile clusters, fem. in very short cymes. 
41. DEBREGEASIA, Gaud. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, serrate, 3-nerved; stipules phis 
Flowers monecious or diccious, in capitate sessile panicled or Spic 
clusters. MALE FL. Sepals 3-5, valvate. Stamens 3-5, inflexed 1n ien 
Pistillode glabrous or woolly. Frm. rr. Receptacle fleshy. Peran 
ovoid or obovoid, succulent in fruit, mouth contracted very minute. Oray 
straight, included; style short or 0, stigma  penicillate ; ovule erect 
Achene at first cohering with the fleshy perianth. Seed with copions o 
scanty albumen ; cotyledons short, broad.— Species 5, trop. Asia, and Africa. 
* Leaves narrow. 
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es; 
male sepals 4 exceeding the bracteoles. Wedd. Monogr. 460, t. 15 A. f 
Blume l.c. Boehmeria angustata & dichotoma, Hassk. Hort. So. ; 
1 . 
* 3. 
U. muricata, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 4612. ?U. bicolor, Wall. Ctt 
U. verrucosa, Moon. Cat. PI. Ceylon. Conocephalus niveus, Wig 
ft. 
SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt, 2-5000 ft. ; from Kumaon to Sikkim, alt. INSULA 
Assam and the Kuasia Hints TEnassER™, Gallatly. The DECCAN PE 
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