698 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XIX. 



Shrubs with Alteenate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals None. 



hairy grey felted beneath, base 3-nerved, stalk i-2 

 ins. long ; flowers in sessile dense axillary rounded 

 clusters, in males calyx 3-5 lobed, stamens 4, in female 

 calyx tubular 3-5 lobed, style slender ; achenes, en- 

 closed in the calyx, angled and margined. 



Villebruaea frutes- 

 cens, 



Ga-fiishiara poidhaula. 

 Urtioace^. 

 F. B. I. V. 590. 

 Valleys balow Simla 

 (Collett). 



large, bark dark grey, rough, branches veiy slender, 

 slightly velvety ; leaves 2-8 by 1-4 ins. ovate, long tail- 

 like point, minutely toothed, except at base, 3-nerved 

 at base, rough above, pale or white felted below, stalks 

 slender, i-4 ins. long, stipules ^ in., lanceolate, velvety ; 

 flowers male and female crowded in bracteolate, small 

 sessile, or nearly sessile clusters in axils of previous 

 year's leaves, in males calyx 4-5-fid, stamens 4-5, 

 in females calyx ovoia narrowed to a minute mouth, 

 stigma linear ; achenes many, black, minute, partially 

 inserted in a white juicy mass of the calyx and 

 bracteoles. This plant yields a strong fibi-e. 



Debregeasia hypoleu- 

 ca, 



Puruni, s'tarii. 

 URTICACEiE, 

 F. B. I. V. 591. 

 Salt Bange and 

 Himalaya, :^-5,000 ft. 

 Simla, Mahasn (Collett). 

 Kotzi, Murre6 Hills 

 (Donie). 



Quercu Ilez, 



Baloot^ kharanja. 



OUPULIFEB^, 

 F. B.I. V. C02. 

 HimaUya, 3-8,500 ft. 



large, bark thin, dark grey, branches white woolly ; 

 leaves narrow, 3-6 by J-] ^ ins., linear-lanceolate, long 

 pointed, toothed, bases 3-nerved, rough above, white 

 woolly beneath, stalks J^-1 in., stipules divided ; 

 flowers male and female in rounded sessile axillary 

 heads, bracteolate, in males sepals 4, shorter than the 

 bracteoles, stamens 3-5, in females calyx fleshy, ovoid, 

 mouth contracted, minute ; fruit yellow, ^ in, diam., 

 fleshy dotted with the minute achenes. This plant 

 yields a strong fibre. 



large, shoots stellately velvety ; leaves 1 -3 ins., 

 very leathery, oblong or orbicular, margin smooth or 

 spinous-toothed, velvety above when young, woolly or 

 very velvety beneath, or smooth when old, nearly 

 sessile, stipules soon falling off ; flowers minute, in 

 slender short clustered spikes, males in pendulous 

 spikes, calyx bell-shaped. 4-7-lobed, stamens 6-12. 

 females in erect spikes, enclosed in bracts, calyx 

 minutely toothed, styles 3-5 ; acorn cyliudric, 1-1^ ins. 

 long, tip conical, cup very thick, grey, bracts closely 

 fitting, tips narrow. 



