I 1 8 UrticacecE. [Debregeasia. 



Patanas in upper montane zone above 6000 ft. Nuwara Eliya ; 

 Kandapolla. Fl. Feb. 

 Also in [ava. 



26. VIZ.Z.Z:BRUNZ:A, Caudkk. 



Trees or bushes ; 1. alt., petioled, penniveined, basal pair 

 very short ; stip, 2-fid. ; fl. minute, dioecious, in axillary and 

 rameal clusters of cymules ; male fl. : — sep. 4, valvate ; stam. 4, 

 fil. incurved in bud; pistillode clavate ; fern, fl: — base sur- 

 rounded with fleshy bracts, perianth tubular, ventricose, 

 adnate to the ov., mouth minute, 4-5-toothed ; ov. firmly 

 attached to the walls of perianth, stigma sessile, plumose; 

 fr. perianth ventricose, furrowed, seated in a fleshy cup of 

 confluent bracts, endocarp crustaceous. — Sp. about 8 ; 2 in 

 FL B. Ind. 



V. integ-rifolia, Gaud, in Bot. Voy. Boiiile, t. 91 (1844), var. 

 sylvatica, Hk. f. in FL B. Ind. v. 590. 



Oreocnide sylvatica, Miq., Thw. Enum. 261. V. sylvatica, BL, Wedd. 

 in DC. 1. c. 235-1. C. P. 2199. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 590. Bl. Mus. Bot. ii. t. 1 5. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. anal. 26, f. 4. 



An evergreen tree, 18-25 ft- 5 branchlets pubescent; 1. 4-6 

 in., oval, oblong or obovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 

 caudate-acuminate, subfalcate, entire or crenulate above the 

 middle, base obtuse or acute, membranous, penniveined, 

 glabrous above, pubescent on the veins beneath, veins 5-8 

 pairs, very obliquely ascending; petiole ^-i in.; stip. lanceo- 

 late; fl. minute, sessile in crowded forked axillary cymules 

 \-^ in. long, hispidulous. 



Moist region 2-5000 ft.; rather common. Hantane; Alagalla ; Nitre 

 Cave Dist. ; Haputale. Fl. Jan. and September. 



S. India, E. liengal, Andaman and Nicobar Is., Burma, Malay Is. 



27. DZSBREGEASXA, Gaudich. 



Trees or shrubs ; 1. alt., serrate, ashy-white beneath, base 

 3-veined ; stip. bifid ; fl. moncecious or dioecious, fascicled in 

 axillary pedicelled bracteolate cymes or heads, branches of 

 cymes divaricate; male fl. : — sep. 3-5, valvate; stam. 3-5, fil. 

 inflexed in bud; pistillode oblong, base woolly; fem. fl. 

 densely crowded in at length fleshy heads; perianth tubular, 

 ventricose, mouth minute, 4-toothed ; ov. adnate to the base 

 of and included within the perianth, stigma sessile, peni- 

 cillate; fr. a pissiform head of more or less fleshy obovoid 

 perianths and contained achenes. 



