Parietaria.| CXXXVI, URTICACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 593 
2358; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 1149; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. xii. t. 651. P. 
punctata, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 953. P.tibethana, Blume Mus. Bot. 235%. 
WESTERN TrBET; Balti, and in the Indus and Shayuk Valleys, Thomson,— 
DıstRIB. Affghanistan and westwards to Greece. 
2. P. debilis, Forst. Prodr. 387; annual, leaves long-petioled elliptic 
broadly ovate or ovate-cordate membranous obtuse, bracts linear, lobes of 
fem. perianth acute, fruit ovoid. Wedd. Monogr. 517, t. 17; DC. Prodr. 
Xvi. i 2359; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 1150. P. micrantha, Ledeb. Fl. Alt. iv. 
308; Ic. Fl. Ross. t. 22. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from the Panjab to Sikkim, alt. 8-12,000 ft. WESTERN 
TIBET, alt. 10-14,000 ft. The Concan and Nirenrgi Mrs.—DrsrRIs. Many temp. 
and trop, regions extending to Australia and Chili. 
A diffuse flaccid pubescent herb, 6-12 in. Leaves 3-1 in. Cymes 3-7-fid. ; 
bracts shortly united. 
44, FORSKOHLEA, Linn. 
. Slender scabrous herbs or undershrubs. Leaves alternate, toothed, 
riple-nerved ; stipules lateral, free. Flowers in axillary androgynous 
Woolly or. silky involucres, males many in the periphery of the involucres, 
em. solitary in the centre. Mate FL. Perianth clavate, 3-5-cleft, one 
obe inflexed. Stamen 1, inflexed in bud. Pistillode0. Frm. ri. Perianth 
; Ovary straight; stigma filiform, hispid, persistent; ovule erect. 
chenes ovoid, compressed, woolly ; albumen scanty or 0; cotyledons broad. 
—Species 5, Indian, Oriental, African and Spanish. 
F. tenacissima, Linn. Mant. 72; leaves rhombic orbicular or obovate 
obtuse base cuneate hispid or softly hairy above with hooked hairs woolly 
neath, invol. bracts 2-5 lanceolate silky below hispid above. Wedd. in 
0. Prodr. xvi. i. 9359; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 1151; Wall. Cat. 4666 ; 
Lamk. Tl. t. 388, F. latifolia, Retz. Obs. 51. Caidbeja adherens, Forsk. 
- Æg. Arab, 82, 
Western PANJAB, on the Salt Range, Aitchison. SOINDE, Vicary.—DISTRIB. 
‘stwards to Arabia and N. Africa; also S.E. Spain. : ; 
Shrubby, stem 6-24 in. ‘Leaves 1-l in, snow-white beneath; petiole 4-3 in. 
Involucre lin 
45. DROGUETIA, Gaud. 
Slender herbs, differi in the campanulate scabrid 
, ering from Forskohlea in the cam] 
volucres, and of which some species have opposite leaves, and others 
“minal Spicate involucres.—Species 4, Indian and African. 
D. diffusa, Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 41.211 ; Monogr. 541, t. 19 A, 
à 111; diffuse, leaves opposite ovate acuminate serrate or toothed hispidly 
uty above and on the nerves beneath, involucres axillary 1- or more-fid., 
enes glabrous shining. D. pauciflora, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. 1. 23558, 
Te Skohlea urticoides, Wight lc. t. 1989. Pouzolzia pauciflora, A. Rich. 
Le Fl. Abyss. ii, 259, Didymogyne abyssinica, Wedd. in Ann. Se, Nat. 
PA meria pauciflora, Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 201. B. BEN edd. 
laris. gr. 359. Urtica pauciflora, Hochst. Plant. Schimp. No. 682. U. rivu- 
» Schlecht, in Plant. Hohenack. No. 1326. 
ILGHIRI Hrrrs, Wi — 1B. Abyssinia, Java. . 
abit and foliage of Ghenabanta "ouspidata, Wight. Leaves }-1} in., very 
nous, green when dry, nerves faint, petiole j5-1 in, slender à pie small, 
