'8o U7'ticace(^. [Holop/elca. 



Male perianth 2-5-cleft, fern, tubular or o 

 {Bochmericce). 

 Fruiting perianth dry. 



Shrubs or trees, style filiform . . 23. Boehmeria. 

 Herbs. 

 Stigma ovate, persistent . . .24. Chamabainia. 

 Stigma filiform, deciduous . . 25. Pouzolzia. 

 Fruiting perianth fleshy. 



Fem. fls. surrounded by fleshy bracteoles 26. Villebrunia. 

 Fern. fl. naked 27. Debregeasia. 



A very large, chiefly tropical family, to which belongs the common 

 nettle. The stems of many yield a valuable fibre, especially the Pacific 

 Island Broiissonetia, from the inner bark of which tappa cloth is made. 



Ceylon, though containing more than half (27) of the number of 

 genera of Uriicacecc occurring in British India (45), is poor compara- 

 tively in species. Of these there are nearly 300 in British India, but 

 only about 68 in Ceylon. 



I. K0X.0FTZ:I.Z:A, Planch. 



A deciduous tree ; 1. alt, penniveined ; stip. scarious ; fl. 

 polygamous ; sep. 4-8, imbricate ; stam. 4-8 or more, fil. erect 

 in bud, anth. pubescent ; ov. stipitate, compressed ; stigmas 2, 

 subulate ; ovule pendulous, anatropous ; fr. a dry, winged 

 samara ; seed flat, endosperm o, cotyledons very broad, 

 complicate. — Monotypic. 



n. Integ-rifolia, Phmch. in Ami. Sc. iWat. ser. 3, x. 266 (1848). 

 Croda-kirilla, S. Ayil, Velayil, Kauchia, T. 



Ul/inis uitCi^'^rifolia^'Roxh.; Moon,Cat. 21 ; Thw. Enum. 267. C. P. 2381. 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 481. Wight, Ic. t. 1968. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 310. 



A tree 50-60 ft. high, with ash-grey pustular bark ; shoots 

 glabrous ; 1. 2-5 in., oval to obovate- oblong, cuspidately 

 acuminate or apiculate, entire (young serrate), glabrous, base 

 rounded or cordate, veins 5-7 pairs, glabrous, or with the petiole 

 \-^ in. puberulous ; fl. of both sexes usually mixed in short 

 racemes or fascicles at the scars of fallen leaves, about J in. 

 ■diam. ; sep. usually 4, pubescent, deciduous ; fil. glabrous, 

 anth. pubescent ; samara orbicular, in puberulous racemes, 

 |-i in. broad, notched at the top with 2 usually incurved 

 teeth, ped. \-l in., very slender, jointed in the middle, nucleus 

 in the centre of the samara, broadly oval, flat, reticulate, wings 

 beautifully veined. 



Dry region; common. Fl. July; greenish. 



India, Burma, Cochin China. 



Planchon distinguishes the Ceylon tree as var, zcylaiiica; but on no 

 valid characters. 



This is the Indian elm. Wood strong, heavy, pale, very useful for 

 many purposes. 



