Girardinia. | Urticacee. 269 
2. G. palmata Gaud. in Freyc. Voy. Bot. p. 498 (1826). Urtica 
palmata Forsk. Fl. 42g. Arb. p. 189 (1775). G. heterophylla var. pal- 
mata Hk. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. V, p. 551 (1890). 
As G. heterophylla but leaf segments narrower, less hairy; 
fem. infl. elongate. 
Forests of the montane zone 3000-6000 ft., rather common. FI. Feb. 
Also in S. India. 
Passe 107.— 
18. PILEA Lindl. 
Leaves serrate . 1. P. Wightii, 2. P. angulata, 3. P. melastomoides. 
Leaves entire . 3a. P- microphylla. 
For P. stipulosa Miq. read: 
2. P. angulata Blume Mus. Bot. II, p. 55 (1856). Urtica angu- 
lata Bl. Bijdr. p. 494 (1825). U. stipulosa Mig. Pl. Jungh. I, p. 28 
(1854). Pilea stipulosa Migq. in Zoll. Syst. Verr. p. 102 (1854). 
For P. trinervia Wight read: 
3. P. melastomoides Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 4, I, p. 184 
(1854). Urtica melastomoides Poir. Encycl. Suppl. IV, p. 223 (1816). 
Pilea trinervia Wight Ic. t. 1973 (1853). 
3a. P. MICROPHYLLA Liebm. in Vidensk. Selsk. Skr. sér. 5, II, 296 
(1851). Parietaria microphylla Linn. Syst., ed. X, p. 1308 (1759). 
Pilea muscosa Lindl. Coll. Bot. t. 4 (1821). 
Minute creeping herb; leaves very small, more or less 
anisophyllous, entire, one-nerved, often succulent, petiole 
1 as long as the blade; cymes androgynous or unisexual, 
usually of a single sessile cluster; male fl. pedicellate; seg- 
ments of male fl. with short, broad, glabrous, dorsal append- 
ages; fem. fl. subsessile; median segments of perianth 
cucullate, scarcely longer than the lateral segments; achene 
ovoid, slightly rough. 
Low country, common; naturalised. Fls. greenish, tinged with 
‘white or red. 
Native of Tropical America. 
Page 108.—For Lecanthus Wightii Wedd. read: 
L. peduncularis Wedd. in DC. Prodr. XVI, p. 164 (1860). 
Procris peduncularis Wall. Cat. no. 4634 (1828); Royle III, t. 83 f. 2 
(1833-40). Lecanthus Wightit Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat., sér. IV, I, 
p. 187 (1854). 
Page 114.—For Boehmeria platyphylla Don read: 
Spikes very long, diffuse; leaves subglabrous 
beneath; hairs of stem adpressed . , . 1. B. PLATYPHYLLA. 
Spikes rather short; leaves pubescent beneath; 
hairs of stem spreading . : ; : . 2. B. RUGOSISSIMA. 
1. B. platyphylla Don Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 60 (1825). B. platy- 
phylla var. macrostachya Wedd. in DC. Prodr. XVI, p. 211 (1860). 
Splitgerbera macrostachya Wight Ic. t. 1977 (1863). 
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