•90 Urticacecr. [Fkus. 



An evergreen tree, young parts apprcssed pubescent ; 

 branchlets slender; 1. \-i in., oblong-lanceolate to oblong- 

 obovate or oblanceolate, cuspidately caudate, base narrowed, 

 shining on both surfaces, veins 5-7 pairs, slender, nearly 

 horizontal, but arching, basal 3-5 pair, v^ery short, margins 

 subundulate; petiole ^ to f in., slender; stip. ovate-lanceolate, 

 membranous; recepts. axillary, binate, globose, ^-| in. diam., 

 puberulous, young subverrucose, ped. i-| in., slender, pubes- 

 cent; bracts at base of recepts. o, at base of ped. 3, small, 

 rounded ovate ; male fl. few, pedicelled, sep. 2, unequal, 

 spathulate ; stam. i, fil. adnate to one sep. ; gall and fert. 

 fern. fl. sessile or pedicelled, sep. 3, unequal, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, style half as long as the ovoid achene, stigma 

 simple or 2-fid. 



Moist region up to 5000 ft. ; rather rare. Heneratgoda, abundant ; 

 Hantane; Hunasgiriya; Maturata. Fl. August, December. 



India, Burma, China, Malaya. 



The Ceylon tree is var. tnifior, King, and differs from the continental 

 type in its smaller leaves, with fewer lateral veins, and globose recepts. 



F. religiosa^ L., Bo, S., Arachu^T. (C. P. 3672), is a commonly planted 

 tree, and invariably found by every Buddhist temple, but is nowhere 

 wild. The sacred tree at Anuradhapura, brought from Magadha, in 

 India, in B.C. 288, and carefully tended and guarded ever since, is not 

 improbably the original source of all the trees in Ceylon. It is wild 

 in the sub- Himalayan forests only. There are specimens in Hermann's 

 Herb, (see Mus. Zeyl. 42, and Fl. Zeyl. n. 372). 



10. P. Arnottiana, Miq. Ann. Mus. iii. 287 (1867). BLaputo- 

 bo, S. 



Urostigma Arnottianiim., Miq., Thw. Enum. 264. King, P"ic. 56. 

 C. P. 2856. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 513. King, Fie. tt. 68 and 84, f. v. 



A glabrous tree or shrub ; 1. 3-8 in., broadly ovate or 

 deltoid, obtusely caudate - acuminate, minutely reticulate 

 above, subcoriaceous,base truncate or cordate, veins 5-7 pairs, 

 slender, all strongly arched, basal 3 pairs ; petiole 2-6 in. ; stip. 

 \-\ in., ovate-lanceolate ; recepts. mostly at the scars of fallen 

 leaves, binate or clustered on tubercles, subsessile, depressed- 

 globose, \-\ in. diam., smooth, dotted ; basal bracts 3, brown, 

 membranous ; male fl. few, sessile ; sep. 3, loose, inflated, 

 broad, acuminate, much larger than the small subsessile 

 solitary anth. ; gall and fert. fem. fl. alike ; perianth lax, 

 toothed, embracing the ov., style and stigma both long. 



Dry and intermediate region ; rather rare. Trincomalie ; Lunagala, 

 Uva ; Haragama. Fl. June-/\ugust. Fr. yellow-brown or purplish. 

 .-Mso in S. India. 



