374 URTICACEyE. 



POUZOLZIA. F.B.I. 136 XXXVI. 



Herbs or small woody plants with the characters of the 

 tribe 7 URTICEM (p. 370), but characterised by the leaves 

 opposite or in threes, with three main nerves of which 

 the lateral do not reach the leaf-tip, and flowers pedi- 

 celled in axillary bunches. Male sepals four or five, 

 rounded or inflexed so that the bud is flat-topped. Female 

 perianth small flask-shaped with contracted mouth, 

 from which projects the long deciduous stigma. 



Species 35, in the tropics of the Old World. 



I find great difficulty in identifying my plants from the sheets at Kew, 

 and am uncertain of those given below, except P. bennettiana. Possibly too 

 many species have been described and some might be reduced. 



r Leaves with three nerves only : male flower flat-topped. b 

 a <j Basal nerves branched and nerves therefore numerous : 



[ male flower round-topped .... P. auriculata, etc. 



[ Upper leaves distinctly smaller than the lower : sepals four, c 

 b \ Upper leaves hardly if at all smaller : sepals five .... 



y p. bennettiana. 



[ Leaves more than twice as long as broad . . P. wightii. 

 Leaves roundish : whole-plant scabrid ... P. scabra. 



^ ^ Leaves about twice as long as broad : whole plant glabrous 

 [ P. caudata. 



Pouzolzia auriculata Wight; i^B./. v 582, XXXVI 5. 

 A straggling, long stemmed plant. Leaves /^ to 5 inches, 

 on Yz to 3-inch stalks, broadly or narrowly ovate or 

 ovate-acute or acuminate : nerves three at the base 

 and two others from the midrib, all forking so that there 

 may be eleven altogether. Flowers nearly sessile, or 

 (in var cymosa) in spreading cymes. Male buds rounded. 

 Wight Ic. t. 1979 f- 2. 



Nilgiris : on the eastern side near Kotagiri, etc., flowering 

 May to September. Fyson 17 12, 2686. Bourne Q) Lamb's Rock 

 road, Coonoor. 



This species appears to vary considerably in the size of the leaves and 

 wings on the fruit. I cannot match my specimen exactly with any at Kew. 

 A nearly allied species is P. indica Gaud also with many varieties. 



