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iu Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1S99) p. 516. B. platyphylla var. 

 scabrella, Wedd. Monog. Urtic. (1856) p. 365 ; Hook, t Fl. B. I. v. 5, 

 p. 578 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 1, p. 484. Splitgerbera scabrella, 

 Dalz. & G-ibs. Bo. Fl. (1861) p. 239. Urtiea scabrella, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. 

 V. 3 (1832) p. 581 ; Wight, Icon. t. 691.— Flowers : Apr.-Oct. 



The late Mr. C. B. Clarke (Journ. Linn. Soc. 1. c.) was of opinion 

 that both B. scabrella, Gaud., and B. rotundifolia, Don, were quite dis- 

 tinct species from B. platypliylla, Don, and that no intermediate forms 

 existed in India. Prain (J,, c.) is of the same opinion as regards 

 B. scabrella. I cannot find that B. rotundifolia occurs in the Bombay 

 Presidency. I have not seen any specimens from there ; there are none 

 in Herb. Kew. 



KoNKAN -. billy jungles, Dalzell cf- Gibson ; Mira Hills, near Pen, Balzell i|- Gibson ; 

 common in moist forests near the sea-coast, Talbot ; Pen, Woodrow ; Goa jungles, 

 Woodrow. Deccan : Koina Valley below Mahableshwar, Cooke ! Kanaka : N. Kanara 

 near the sea-coast, Talbot. — Distrib. More or less throughout India ; Ceylon. 



Boshmeria nivea. Gaud, in Freyc. Voy. (1826) p. 499. The Bhea 

 Plant, groM'n for its fibre chiefly in Bengal and Assam, has been 

 occasionally grown in gardens iu the Bombay Presidency. It is a native 

 of tlie Malay Islands, China and Japan. Jackson, Index Kewen. v. 1, 

 p. 317; Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Beech. Voy. (1841) p. 214; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 516 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 964 ; Watt, 

 Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 1, p. 468. 



A full description of the methods of Ifl/ca cultivation and the mode of extraction 

 of the fibre may be found in Watt's Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



10. POUZOLZIA, Gaud. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves alternate or the lower (rarely all) 

 opposite, tisually entire, 3-nerved at the base, smaller upwards, the 

 uppermost often reduced to bracts ; stipules free, often persistent. 

 Flowers minute, usually moncecious,.in 1-sexual or androgynous clusters 

 sessile in the axils of leaves or bracts, the individual florets pedicellate ; 

 braeteoles small. Male flowbbs: Perianth 4-5-partite or -lobed 

 (rarely 3-partite) ; lobes valvate with concave or abruptly inflexed tips 

 ' and transversely plicate backs. Stamens 4 or 5 (rarely 3). Pistillode 

 clavate or oblong. Female flowees : Perianth tubular, often beaked ; 

 mouth contracted, 2-4-toothed. Ovary included ; ovule erect ; stigma 

 filiform, jointed to the top of the ovary, soon deciduous. Fruit a small 

 achene with brittle shining pericarp, enclosed in but usually free from 

 the marcescent perianth. Seed with membranous testa; albumen very 

 scanty or ; cotyledons ovate. — Distrib. Chiefly tropical Asiatic ; 

 enumerated species about 50, but reducible to a smaller number. 



Lobes of the male perianth convex or gibbous on the back ... I. P. indica. 

 Lobes of the male perianth abruptly inflexed above the middle, 

 transversely folded at the flexure, hence the buds truncate. 



Stem tei-minatiug in a bract eate spike ; stamens 5 2. P. pentandra. 



Stem not running out into a bracteate spike ; flowers 

 axillary ; stamens 3-5. 



Slamens 5 3. P. Bennettiana. 



Stamens 3-4 4. P . integn folia. 



