URTICACE^. 371 



blades 4 to 8 inches, by lYz to 5 inches, broadly-ovate, 

 bluntly acuminate, toothed all round to the base. Male 

 panicles axillary, female subterminal long peduncled. 

 Achenes slightly tubercled, on a winged pedicel, t. 236. 

 Wight Ic. t. 1972. 



In waste places and by the sides of sholas. Nilgiris : 

 Ootacamund, Kotagiri, Avalanche. Pulneys : Kodaikanal and on 

 the downs. Flowering June. ^7^^;^ 1838. Bourne 46^^, 1^1 s, 

 2912, 2992. 



Gen. Dist, Sub-tropical Himalayas, South India, Ceylon. 



PILEA. F.B.I. 136 XXIX. 



Bastard or Soft Nettle, 



Annual or perennial herbs of the tribe 7 URTICEJE 

 (p- 370), without stinging hairs. Leaves opposite, three- 

 nerved. Flowers in heads or lax cymose panicles. 

 Sepals of the male flower concave, fleshy, often with an 

 appendage or horn, on the back. Sepals of the female 

 three, unequal, the dorsal one longest and often hooded 

 or swollen on the back, with scales (staminodes) opposite 

 them. 



Species about 16 in Asia, Africa, and tropical America. 

 Ger, Kanonierblume. 



Pilea wightii Wedd.; F.B.L v 554, XXIX 10. Stem 

 about a foot, weak and rooting at the lower nodes, quite 

 glabrous. Leaves 1%. to i% by I to l% inches, ovate or 

 rounded, coarsely toothed or serrate acute or acuminate, 

 three-nerved : stipules short or absent. Flowers small, 

 clustered along the loose branches of an open cymose 

 panicle. Achenes smooth, 1/20 inch. t. 237. 



Nilgiris : in plantation near Forester's hut, Krurmund 

 road ; Pykara. Pulneys : Gundattu shola above Kodaikanal. 

 Fyson 2613. Bourne 1817, 2913, 5220."^ 



Gen. Dist. Temperate Himalayas, Sikkim, South Indian mountains, 

 Ceylon, Java. 



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