1 1 6 Urticacece. [Pouzoizia. 



Var. j3, allenata, Wedd. Mon. Urt. 399. Heim. Mus. 30. Fl. Zeyl. 

 n. 371. Pufictafia zcylanica^ L. Sp. PI. 1052 (non Mant. ). Urtica 

 alietiata, L. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, 622. Pouzoizia zcyla7iica, Benn., PI. Jav. 

 Rar. 67. Wight, Ic. t. 693 (bad), and t. 2101, f. 45. C. P. 2189. 



L. mostly opp., ovate, base rounded, lateral ribs of fr. 

 perianth dilated into coriaceous wings or auricles. 



Moist region up to 4000 ft.; common. Fl. all the year; reddish. 

 India, Burma, Malaya, China. 



2. P. auriculata, Wight^ Ic. vi. 10(1853). 



Thw. Enum. 260. Wedd. in DC. 1. c. 225. C. P. 2191. 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 582. Wight, Ic. t. 1980, f. 2. 



Stem 1-2 ft., stout or slender, erect, hoary, pubescent or 

 tomentose ; 1. 1-5 in., alt., oval ovate or lanceolate, acute or 

 acuminate, quite entire, base usually acute 3-veined or 3-pli- 

 veined, hispidulous above, more tomentose beneath, veins one 

 or more pairs above the basal ; petiole 1-3 in. ; stip. ovate, 

 acuminate ; fl. in small axillary clusters ; stam. 5 ; fr. perianth 

 variously ribbed, one or more of the ribs sometimes dilated 

 into wings or auricles, top short or produced into a longer or 

 shorter bifid beak. 



Var. /3, bicuspidata. /'. bicuspida/a, Wight, Ic. vi. 42, t. 209S, f. 2,3- 

 C. P. 4001. 



L, narrowly ovate-lanceolate, fr. perianth ovoid, not 

 winged, beak bifid, the lobes spreading. 



Low country, principally in dry region ; common. Fl. April, November. 

 Also in Peninsular India. 



3. P. Walkeriana, Wight, Ic. vi. 41 (1853). 



Memorialis aqiiatica., Wedd. Mon. Urt. 418. Hyrtanandni Walkeriiuia, 

 Thw. Enum. 261. P. glabra., Wight, Ic. vi. 41. C. P. 2192, 3372. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 583 {P. poiiandra, van). Wight, Ic. t. 2095, ff. 15, 16. 



A tall erect glabrous perennial-rooted herb, 2-3 ft. high, 

 terminating in the long spike of bracteate clusters of fl. ; 

 1. opp., 3-7 in., lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 quite entire, smooth or scaberulous above, base acute or 

 rounded, margins ciliolate or not, veins o but the basal pair, 

 which run to the tip of the 1.; petiole i-j in.; stip. small, 

 broadly ovate ; fl. clustered in the bracts of an erect or 

 nodding terminal spike up to 18 in. long; bracts gradually 

 smaller upwards, ovate, acuminate or cuspidate, sessile or 

 petioled, much exceeding the fl. clusters ; fr. perianth with 

 two broad lateral membranous wings, forming an almo.st 

 orbicular fr., bilobed at base and apex. 



Low country in rocky places of the moist and intermediate region up 

 to 2000 ft.; rather common. Fl. Jan., Feb. 

 Endemic. 



