92 Urticacea:. [Fkus. 



, 13. r. Tsiela,* Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 549 (1832). Ela-nugra^ 

 Eh^tu, ^. Kalatti, T. 



Urostii^ma TJicIa, Miq., Thw. Enum. 265 (part). King, Fie. 59. 

 C. P. 2218. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 515. Wight, Ic. t. 668. King, Fie. tt. 74, 81, f. z 2. 



A tall glabrous tree, with spreading branches, aerial 

 roots o; bark smooth, greenish; 1. 2-4^ in., ovate or ovate- 

 oblong or lanceolate, acute or obtusely cuspidate, thinly- 

 coriaceous, entire with a thick marginal nerve, base narrowed 

 or rounded, veins 8-10 pairs, slender, arched, basal short; 

 petiole I3-2 in.; stip, ^-i in., ovate, acuminate; recepts. 

 crowded towards the ends of the branches, sessile, globose,. 

 ^-| in. diam,, smooth; basal bracts 3, minute, broadly ovate, 

 scarious ; male fl. few, sessile, sep. 3, ovate, acuminate, longer 

 than the solitary stam. ; stam. i, fil. clavate, much larger than 

 the broadly ovate anth. ; fem. and gall fl. : — sep. 3, ovate, 

 longer than the ovoid achene, style long, stigma very long,, 

 cylindric. 



Dry and intermediate region ; rather common. Hanguranketa ; 

 Maturata ; Ekirianlcumbura ; Puttalam ; Pomparippu ; Anuradhapura ; 

 Matale. Fl. Sept. Fr. purple. 



Also in S. India. 



The leaves when dry have the upper surface covered with minute 

 raised dots. 



14. F. infectoria, Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 550 (1832) (non Willd.). 



King, Fie. 59. F. Lacox, Ham. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 515. Wight, Ic. t. 665. King, Fie. t. 75. 



A moderate-sized low glabrous deciduous tree ; 1. 3^-7 

 in., ovate or ovate-oblong, cuspidate, thin, base broad, rounded^ 

 emarginate or subcordate, rarely narrowed, veins 5-7 pairs, 

 slender, basal pair conspicuous ; petiole 1^-2 in., sometimes 

 obscurely jointed with the blade; stip. A in., broadly ovate, acute, 

 pubescent ; recepts. binate, axillary, sessile, globose, \-h^ in. 

 diam., dotted, ped. -^q-^ in. ; basal bracts 3, minute orbicular- 

 ovate ; male fl. few, sessile, sep. 4-5, linear, stam. i, fil. short, 

 anth. broadly ovate ; gall and fert. fem. fl. ; sep. of male, 

 style of fert. fem. long, of gall fl. short, stigma elongate. 



Var. ;8, Xiambertiana, A7«_^, Fk. 63. Kalaha, 5. 



Urostigina Wight ianiivi^ Miq., Thw. Enum. 265. U. Lambcrtianuin., 

 Miq. C. P. 2223. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 515. King, Fie. t. 76. 



L. 1^-4 in., coriaceous, broadly ovate or oblong, obtusely 



* Tsiela is the vernacular name given for this in the Hortus Mala- 

 baricus, iii. 85, t. 63. Miquel's ' TjiehV was clearly a misprint. 



