592 CXXXVI. uRTICAcEH. (J. D. Hooker.)  [Debregeasia. 
A tree, 20-30 ft.; branches robust. Leaves 6-12 by 4-9 in., membranous, snow- 
white beneath with dark nerves; nervules slender parallel; petiole 2-10 in. Cymes 
from the upper axils, 2-4 in. diam., on peduncles 1-3 in.; fem. heads 4 in., white or 
reddish in fruit, 
6. D. ceylanica, Hook. f.; branches very stout, tips and petioles 
pubescent, leaves orbicular cuspidate quite entire, base rounded or cordate, 
above glabrous, beneath softly white tomentose, fem. heads in stoutly 
peduncled tomentose cymes, with short stout divaricate branches. D. 
Wallichiana, Wedd. Monogr. 464 (the Ceylon plant only). Morocarpus 
Wallichianus, Thwaites Enum. 262. 
CEYLON; at Hantani in the Central Province, Walker, Thwaites. . sol 
A tree. Branchlets as thick as the little finger. Leaves 3-4 in. diam. ; petiot 
2-4 in., stout, somewhat furfuraceously pubescent, as are the cymes, peduncles *d 
branches. Cymes with stout peduncles 11-2 in., each bearing 3 rarely more stoni y 
pedicelled fem. heads 4 in. diam.—The orbicular leaves, the shorter stouter a 
Tio 4 peduncles, and the much larger fruiting heads distinguish this from D. Wa 
ichiana. 
42. MAOUTIA, Weddell. 
Shrubs. Leaves alternate, crenate, tomentose and snow-white beneath; 
stipules connate. Flowers minute, moncecious or dicecious, in small cymos 
globose heads. Marr FL. Sepals 5, valvate. Stamens 5, inflexed in buc, 
Pistillode woolly. Frm. FL. Perianth 0. Ovary straight; stigma Dn 
cillate; ovule erect. Achene ovoid, crustaceous or with a fleshy 00a" 
pspid; albumen scanty, cotyledons oblong.—Species 8, Eastern Asiatic 47 
acific. 
M. Puya, Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, i. 193; Monogr. 477, t y 
B; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 230"; leaves elliptic caudate-acuminate coarse) 
toothed, achene gibbously ovoid trigonous hispid. Brand. For. Fe 
Kurz For. Fl. ii. 429. Boehmeria Puya, Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. Yi ( 
316, t. 7 (exel. P Roxb.). B. frutescens, Don. Prodr. 59 (not of Thunb: 
Urtica Puya, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 4605, and P 4606. 
TROPICAL Hr ra Mrs. an 
"E D ALAYA, from Garwhal eastwards, the KHAS S 
Stem 6-8 ft. ; branches pubescent. Leaves 4-8 in., membranous, e 2- . 
beneath white except the pubescent nerves; petiole 1-5 in.; stipules lanceola heads 
C ymes axillary and terminal, spreading, slender, dichotomously branched ; fem. 
é in. diam., males rather larger, 
d BURMA, 
48. PARIETARIA, Tourney. 
pderbe, rarely undershrubs. Leaves alternate, quite Ms 
exstipulate. lowers polygamous, in cymose clusters, bracteate. us. 
Sepals 3—4, valvate. Stamens 3-4, in Hexed in bud. Pistillode es 
FEM. FL. Perianth tubular 4-fid. Ovary straight; stigma reana crus 
cillate; ovule erect. Achene enclosed in the persistent perm temperate 
taceous. Albumen copious; cotyledons oblong.— Species about 8, 
and tropical. 
: v ]e-nerved: 
triple Mur T 
| hrob 
„1; P. judaica, Linn. Sp. Pl. Ed. 2,1492; a tufted pubescent undr ate 
with a woody stock, leaves ovate or lanceolate acute base roun e or le% 
cymes few-fld. lower flower of each female, bracts broadly ovate df- j 
connate, fruit elongate. Weild, Monogr. 508, t. 17, £. 155. Dc 
