I02 UrticacecS. \AlUvnnthus. 



or binate, sometimes androgynous ; fl. 3-bracteate, pubescent'; 

 fl. fern, on slender ped. that are thickened upwards ; fr. pisi- 

 form, embraced by the persistent sepals, style persistent, \-\n. 

 long. 



Low country to 2000 ft.; common. Fl. March, April; yellow. 



India, Malaya, China. 



The yellow fruit is edible, but the bark is said to be an irritant poison. 

 The wood is white, elastic, without annual rings. The leaves are 

 employed for polishing, instead of sand-paper ; and pieces of the wood 

 are used as tooth-brushes by the natives. 



12. DORSTENZA., L. 



Herbs or small shrubs, often succulent ; 1. alt, penni- 

 veined ; stip. lateral ; fl. monoecious, minute, crowded, males on 

 the surface, fem. sunk in the substance of an expanded simple 

 or lobed androgynous receptacle, which is bordered by bracts ; 

 male fl. : — perianths more or less connate, 2-Iobed, or toothed ; 

 stam. 1-3, fil. inflexed in bud ; pistillodc o; fem. fl. : — perianth 

 adnate to the receptacle and ov., limb obscure, style simple, 

 lateral, exserted, ovule pendulous ; achene minute, pericarp 

 crustaceous, endosperm o, cotyledons subequal, contorted, 

 embracing the upcurved radicle. — Sp. about 45 ; i in Fl. B. 

 hid. 



D. indica, Wall. Cat. n. 4639 (1828). 



D. radiaia, Moon, Cat. ii. (non Lam). Thw. Enum. 264. Bureau in 

 DC. Prod. xvii. 272. C. P. 29, 519. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 494. Wight, Ic. t. 1964. 



An erect or ascending sparsely hairy herb, stem. 3-10 in., 

 stout or slender ; 1. 2-3^ in., obo\atc-lanceolate, oval or ovate, 

 acuminate, sinuate-toothed, base acute, veins about 10 pairs ; 

 petiole I'-i in- > recept. i-| in. diam., peltate, rounded or 

 angular, with 5-12 linear, obtuse, pubescent arms spreading 

 from the margin, ped. i-ii in., gradually thickened upwards, 

 and angular. 



Shady places, principally in woods in the moist region 4-6000 ft., 

 common ; also in the dry region rarely. Dambulla. Fl. Jan.-April. 

 Also in S. India. 



13. AZiZiJEANTHUS, Thw. 

 Deciduous trees, juice milky ; 1. alt., penniveined ; stip. 

 lateral ; fl. minute, dioecious, male densely crowded on one side 

 of an axillary elongate, catkin-like, flexuous, peduncled recep- 

 tacle, fem. crowded in globose, axillary, peduncled, pisiform 

 heads, mixed with clavate bractcolcs; male fl. globose, peri- 



