640 cxTT, urticace.t;. 



stigina sessile, peuicillate. Fruit an achene, at first adiiate to tlie 

 fleshy perianth. Seed with membranous testa; albumen copious or 

 scanty ; cotyledons short, broad. — Distbib. Tropical Asia and Africa ; 

 species 5. 



1. Debregeasia velutina, Gmid. in Bot. Voy. Bonite (1844-6) 

 t, 90. A tall shrub or small tree, erect, branched, the branches rough 

 with warty excrescences and the scars of fallen leaves. Leaves 2-7 by 

 |-2 in., lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, finely acuminate, serrulate, 

 rough and wrinkled above, prominently reticulately veined, white- or 

 ashy-tonientose and softer beneath, base usually rounded ; main nerves 

 3 from the base and 2-3 paii's from the midrib above ; petioles |-1| in. 

 long, hairy ; stipules chaffy, -^-| in. long, 2-fid at the apex. Flowers in 

 compact heads arranged in lateral dichotomous cymes; peduncles and 

 pedicels hairy. Male flowers : Sepals 4. Stamens 4. Female 

 .FLOWERS: Perianth tubular, with a small 4-toothed mouth. Stigma 

 sessile, peuicillate. Fruit ^ in. in diam., consisting of an aggregation of 

 more or less obovoid perianths and their cotitained achenes, yellow when 

 ripe, somewhat resembling a small raspberry, edible. Fl. B. I. v. 5, 

 p. 590; Wedd. Monog. Urtic. p. 460, t. 15 A, figs. 1-9 ; Trim. Fl. Cevl. 

 V. 4, p. 119 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 334 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 516; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 54. 

 Conocej>hahts niveus, Wight, Icon. t. 1959; Dalz. & Gribs. p. 239. 

 Morocarpus longifolius, Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. v. 2, p. 156 ; Bedd. 

 For. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. p. ccxxvi, and Anal. Gen. t. 26, fig. 5. 

 Boehmena ramiflora, Grab. Cat. p. 187 (not of Jacq.). — Flowers : Nov.- 

 Jan. Vern. Kdpsi. 



KoNKAN : Stocks\, Talhot \ Ambeghat, Wood row ; Konkan and Ghat jungles, Dalzell 

 ^ Gibson. Deccan : Phonrla Ghat, Bitchir, 1383 ! ; Mahableshwar, Law !, Cooke I 

 Kanara : Law'., Talhof. —Distrtb. India (outer Himalaya, A>8am, Khasia Kills, 

 Birioa, W. Peninsula) ; Cejlon, Java. 



12. PARIETARIA, Tournef. 



Herbs rarely undershrubs. Leaves alternate, entire, 3-nerved ; 

 stipules 0. Flowers polj^garaous, in cymose clusters, the bracts at the 

 base more or less connate into an involucre. Male flowers : Sepals 

 3-4, valvate. Stamens 3-4, inflexed in bud. Pistillode glabrous. 

 Female flowers : Perianth tubular, 4 -fid. Ovary straight ; ovule 

 erect; stigma peuicillate. Achene enclosed in the persistent perianth, 

 crustaceous ; testa membranous : albumen copious ; cotyledons oblong. — 

 DiSTRiB. Temperate and tropical regions ; species about 8. 



1. Parietaria debilis, Fort^t. f. Proch-. (]7S6) p. 73. A diffuse 

 flaccid pubi'scent herb : stems ninnerous, 6-18 in. long, very slender, 

 straggling, often matted. Leaves alternate, entire, thin, very variable 

 in shape and size, |-1| by |-1 in., broadly ovate or suborbicular, obtuse, 

 base rounded or cuneate ; petioles filiform, reaching sometimes 1| in. 

 long. Flowers minute, polygamous, in axillary 3-7-flowered cymes, 

 male and bisexual flowers few, female flowers numerous ; bracts linear, 

 acute, shortly united at tlie base. Male flowers : Perianth 4-partite. 

 Stamens 4. Female flowers : Perianth tubular, 4-lobed, enclosing the 

 ovary; lobes acute. Stigma a sessile tuf'l of hairs. Achene ovoid, 



