032 CXTI. URTIC'ACE.i;. 



tuft of hairs. Female flowers : Sepals narrower than in the male, 

 ncute. Ovary glabrous. Drupe ovoid, hardly compressed, stoutly 

 beaked, glabrous, f-f in. long (including the beak)- Fl. B. I. v. 5, 

 p. 486 ; Bedd. Flor. Svlvat. t. 313, fig. 1 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 4, p. 83 ; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 323; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 502. 

 — Fl OAver H : N o v . - Ja n . 



Kanaka : Sirsi and Siddapur subdivisions of N. Kanara, Talhot ; Sonda (N. Kanara), 

 Talbot, 3646!— DisTRiB. India (Sikkim Himalaya, Assam, Birma, Pegu, W. 

 Peninsula) ; Cejlon, Java. 



5. FLEURYA, Gaud. 



Annual herbs with stinging hairs. Leaves alternate, toothed, 3- 

 nerved ; stipules connate in opposite pairs or 0. Flowers monoecious 

 in the only Bombay species, clustered, the clusters cymose in solitary 

 axillary spikes or racemes, 1-sexual or androgynous. Male flowers : 

 Sepals 4-5, ovate-lanceolate, subvalvate or imbricate. Petals 0. Stamens 

 4 or 5, intlexed in bud. Pistillode globose or clavate. Female flowers : 

 Sepals 4, free, imbricate or connate in a cup-shaped calyx, with the 

 upper hooded and the anterior miuute or obsolete. Ovary oblique ; 

 ovule solitary, erect ; style obliquely ovoid or linear, at length hooked, 

 sometimes with 2 basal arms. Fruit an obli(]ue compressed membranous 

 exserted achene. Seed with very scanty albumen; cotyledons broad. — 

 DiSTRiB. Tropical and S. African : species 8. 



1. Fleurya interrupta. Gaud, in Freyc. Voy. Bot. (1826) p. 497. 

 SteuTS 2-4 ft. high, erect, flexuous, branched, furrowed, the whole plant 

 more or less sparsely clothed with scattered stinging hairs. Leaves 1-6 

 by ^-4 in., broadly ovate, acuminate, coarsely crenate-serrate, with a few 

 scattered stinging hairs, base truncate, cordate or shortly cuneate ; 

 petioles as long as or longer than the leaf-blade, very slender ; stipules 

 long, 2-H(l to about the middle, the segments linear-subulate, ciliolate. 

 Flowers greenish, on solitary interrupted axillary racemes of variable 

 length (2-10 in.), arranged in distant paniculate cymes along the I'hachis. 

 Male flowers few, soon fading. Perianth J^ in. long ; sepals concave. 

 Stamens 4. Female flowers : Perianth j-j in. long, cup-shaped, 

 4-toothed, on a decurved pedicel. Achenes J^ in, long and nearly as 

 broad as long, much compressed, with 3 keels round the margin and 

 with a subcordate or truncate base; style subulate, curved towards the 

 base of the achene. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p, 548 ; Dalz, & Gibs. p. 238 ; Wight, 

 Icon, t, 15)75; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 4, p. 104 ; Weddell, Monog. (1856) 

 p. 115, t. A, fig. 9; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 516; 

 Prain, Beng. PI. p. 961. Urtica interrupta, Linn. Sp, PI, (1753) p, 985 ; 

 Grab. Cat, p. 187. — Flowers: Aug. 



K«NKAN : Law\, Stocka]; Parel (Bombav). lianafhl, Woodrnw\; Matberan, H. M. 

 Jiirdv'ood. S. M. Ci)Inti{y: Londa, Caakel: EclgMum, lUfchie, 136fil Kanara: 

 Xa?<'!— DiSTRiB. India (Bfliar, C. Bengal, Kliasia Hills^ VV. Peninsula); Ce3lon, 

 Malay and Pacific Islands, Cliina, Abyssinia. 



6. GIRARDINIA, Gaud. 



Herbs or lUKlcrshrubs with stout stinging hairs. Leaves alternate, 

 3-nerved, entire oi- lobed, serrate ; stipules connate, foliaceous. Flowers 

 iiioiiojcious (in the Bombay specii's), in simple or panicled cymes or 



