1 04 Urticacccr. [F/eurya. 



A shrub or small glabrous tree, with stout axillary nearly- 

 straight spines; branchlets drooping, pubescent; 1. rather 

 distant, 2-3 in., oval-oblong or obovate, acute or obtuse, 

 base subacute, hard shining, margins recurved, veins 4-6 pairs, 

 slender ; petiole ^-J in. ; male heads I; in. diam., fl. minute, 

 subsessile, pubescent, bracteoles minute, perianth lobes obtuse 

 or notched ; fem. heads larger, fruiting \ in. diam., lobed, 

 pubescent. 



Low country to 3000 ft. in both regions; rather common. Fl. Feb.- 

 April ; greenish. 



Throughout India. 



15. FZiSURYA, Gaiidich. 



Annual' herbs, with stinging hairs ; 1. alt., toothed, base 

 3-veined ; stip. connate in pairs ; fl. unisexual, in unisexual or 

 androgynous spicate or cymose long-peduncled clusters ; male 

 fl. : — sep. 3-5, subvalvate or imbricate ; stam. 3-5, fil. in- 

 flexed in bud; pistillode small ; fem. fl. : — perianth 4- lobed or 

 -partite, posticous lobe largest ; ov. oblique, decurved, style 

 subulate, upcurved, ovule erect ; achene half enclosed in the 

 persistent perianth, obliquely ovate, compressed, gibbous, 

 pericarp membranous, endosperm scanty, cotyledons broad, 

 radicle short, straight. — Sp. 10 ; i in Fl. B. Ind. 



F. interrapta, Gaitd. in Freyc. Voy. Bot. 4()7 (1826). Wal- 

 kahambiliya, .S. 



Herm. Mus. 29. Burm. Thes. 231, 232. Fl. Zeyl. n. 336. Urtica 

 iiitcrrupta, L. Sp. PI. 9S5. Boehmcria i/iterrupta, Willd., Moon, Cat. 62. 

 Thw. Enum. 258. C. P. 2186. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 548. Burm. Thes. t. no, f. i and 2. Wight, Ic. t. 1975. 



Stem 2-4 ft., erect, flexuous, branched, furrowed ; whole 

 plant more or less covered sparsely with scattered stinging 

 hairs ; 1. 1-6 in., broadly ovate, acuminate, coarsely crenatc- 

 serrate, membranous, base cuneate rounded or cordate, 

 3-5-veined, lateral veins 3-5 pairs; petiole long, very slender; 

 cymes or spikes very variable with the ped. 2-10 in. long, 

 bearing rather distant pedicelled clusters of small green fl. ; 

 fl. branches short, or long and ver}' slender ; male sep. con- 

 cave; pistillode minute; fem. pedicel decurved, swollen above; 

 achene cordate, compressed, keeled on one side, the keel 

 decurrent on the pedicel. 



Low country in waste or cultivated ground ; common. Fl. Nov. ; 

 green. 



S. India, E. Bengal, Burma, Malaya, China, Pacific Is., Abyssinia. 



