594 CXXXVI. URTICACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [.Droguetia. 
ovate, ciliate. Znvolucre minute, membranous, toothed, ciliate, scarcely exceeding 
the flowers. Flowers very minute, male several or solitary in the same involucre 
with the female, pedicelled, exserted, irregularly cleft; stamen 1, exserted ; fem. fl. 
few, shortly pedicelled or sessile; style filiform, short, deciduous. Achene obliquely 
ovoid, compressed, hispid or glabrate. 
ORDER CXXXVI*. PLATANACES. 
Deciduous moncecious trees with flaking bark. Leaves alternate pal- 
mately-lobed and -nerved; petiole calyptriform at the base, enclosing 1 
bud; stipules caducous. Flowers in long-peduncled globose unisexua 
axillary heads; sepals on a chaffy or silky receptacle. Male ebracteolates 
anthers numerous, subsessile, with a small basal scale, cells parallel, con- 
nectives truncate or subpeltate. Fem. of many naked 1-celled ovaries mixes 
with slender bracteoles, narrowed into a long style stigmatose on one sie; 
ovule 1, rarely 2, pendulous, orthotropous. Ripe carpels coriaceous, cunei 
form, angled, top thickened truncate or pyramidal; seed linear, albumen 
scanty or 0, cotyledons long narrow radicle inferior.—Genus 1; species? 
6, Oriental and N. American. 
Pratanvs, Linn. 
P. ORIENTALIS, Linn. Sp. Pl. 999; leaves broadly palmately 3- 5-60, 
base truncate or cordate lobes irregularly toothed or lobulate, ripe em. 
with prominent pyramidal tips. Brand. For. Fl. 494; Gamble 45 
Ind. Timb. 345; A. DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 159; Sibth. Fl. Grac. t. 9P 
Boiss, Fl. Orient. iv. 1161. P. vulgaris, Spach. in Ann. Se. Nat. Ser. 11. XV 
NORTH-WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from the Sutlej westwards, alt. 5000-8500 s 
cultivated only.—DisTRIB. Wild from N. Persia westwards to S. Italy. 
A large tree, in Kashmir attaining 75 ft. and with the trunk 26 ft. 
branches very spreading. Leaves 6-9 in. diam., usually broader than long, - 
cuneate at the insertion of the petiole, young woolly beneath ; petiole duncle 
stipules on shoots leafy and lobed. Heads 1-1} in. diam., 2-3 on a slender pe 
4-6 in. long.—The P. occidentalis, L., of N. America, is not. as Brandis (1. ^ vat. 
supposes, commonly cultivated in Western Europe, where the plant so called is the 
(acerifolia) of orientalis. The true occidentalis differs in the truncate tips 9 
ripe carpels, whence the head of fruits is smooth. 
in girth; 
Orper CXXXVII. JUGLANDEJE. 
innate ; 
Trees, often strongly aromatic, monoecious. Leaves alternate pinna 
stipules 0. Male fl. în pendulous spikes; perianth 0, or of 3-6 scales ls 
the margins of the bracts; stamens 2 or more on the bracts, anther rior 
parallel. Fem. fl. in erect few-fld. spikes, bracteate; caly x-limb POI d, 
short, 4-toothed ; petals minute or 0; ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled ; sty hiscent, 
arms stigmatose within; ovule erect anatropous. Drupe or nut mae n 
or with a dehiscent nut the walls of which are sinuously inflexed 0 ; coty- 
cavity with 2-4 basal pits. Seed basifixed, base 2—4-lobed ; albumen" 5” 
ledons equal sinuous or subfoliaceous and contorted, radicle SUP 
Genera 5; species about 30, chiefly North temperate. 
Fem. fl. subsolitary. Bracts not enlarged in fruit. Drupe 
mde s T A Am erem and bony AYAS 4, goons 
