270 Urticacez. [ Boehmeria. 
A herb; young parts finely strigose; leaves opposite, 
broadly ovate-elliptic, acuminate, regularly serrate except 
at the subcordate base, subglabrous with a few adpressed 
hairs on the upper and on the veins of the lower surface; 
petiole long, often exceeding the leaves; fls. in minute re- 
mose cluster on long and simple pendulous spikes; male 
sep. 4, ovate, acuminate, pubescent, with a dorsal mucro. 
Moist region ; common ? 
Hantane; Ramboda; Wattegoda. 
Also in the Himalayas, Nilgiris, Java and the Mascarene Islands. 
2. B. rugosissima Mig. Pl. Jungh. I, p. 32 (1851). Urtica 
rugosissima Reinw. ex Bl. Bijdr. p. 490 (1825). Boehmeria scabrella 
Gaud. Bot. Freyc. Voy. p. 499 (1826); Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. XV, 
p. 125 (1877). Urtica scabrella. Roxb. Fl. Ind. III, p. 581 (1852); Wt. 
Ic. t. 691. B. platyphylla var. scabrella Wedd. in DC. Prodr. XVI, 
p. 211 (1869) var. zeylanica Wedd. 1. c. p. 211 var. rugosissima Wedd. 
l. c. p. 212. B. caudata J. J. Sm. in Koord. & Val. Boonsoorten op 
Java XII, p. 706 (1910) non Sw.. incl. var. rugosissimajy |e ome 
p./715: 
A shrub; young parts densely pubescent, pubescence 
spreading; leaves opposite, ovate-elliptic, caudate-acuminate, 
regularly crenate-serrate, subcordate at base, pubescent, 
especially on the lower surface; petiole shorter than in 
B. platyphylla; fls. in larger, closer clusters, on usually 
shorter, simple or branched, upright or pendulous spikes. 
Moist region; common? FI. Apr., May, Oct. 
Kadugannava; Palugala; Hunasgiriya; Haputale; Dikoya; Han- 
tane. 
Also in India, Java, and Sumatra. 
I have followed C. B. Clarke, who had seen these species in the 
field and considered them distinct; I have only met with sterile 
specimens. 
B. ROTUNDIFOLIA Don Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 60 (1925). B. cuspidata 
Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. XV, p. 60 (1877). B. platyphylla var. 
rotundifolia Wedd. in DC. Prodr. XVI, p. 212 (1869). 
This species is given for Ceylon in the Fl. Brit. Ind. 
B. PLATYPHYLLA var. LONGISSIMA Hk. f. in Fl. Brit. Ind. V, p. 579 
1890). 
. Pris species is also given for Ceylon, Walker, in the Fl. Brit. Ind. : 
it is probably a distinct species. 
Page 115.—For Pougolzia indica Gaud. read: 
1. P. zeylanica Benn. Pl. Jav. Rar. p. 67 (1838). Parietaria 
zeylanica Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1052 (1753). P. indica Gaud. in Freyc. Voy. 
Bot. p. 513 (1826). 
Page 116.— 
2. P. auriculata Wight. 
Some of the specimens placed under this name by Thwaites and 
Trimen were something else, perhaps another variety of P. zeylanica. 
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