Order 107. Urticacece. 311 



leaves oval obtuse, flowers few axillary, stamens 5, fruit ovate ribbed 

 or winged. 



Belgaum and Deccan (D.). *P. integrifolia, 3 or 4 feet high, stem 

 slender, leaves opposite, sessile, lanceolate ; stamens 3 or 4, fruit 

 cordate or winged. Fonda Ghaut (D.), Canara and Deccan (H.). 



12. DEBREGEASIA. 



* D. velutina (Conocephalus niveus, D.). A tall shrub, 

 leaves ovate lanceolate acute serrated, rough or blistered above, 

 prominently veined and white below, flowers clustered in cymes, 

 drupes small round yellow, something like a mulberry. Kdpsi, 

 kargul. 



Common in Konkan and Ghaut jungles (D.). Deccan peninsula 

 (H.)- 



Conocephalus concolor, D., If. puts as a doubtful species. 



Qirardina, shrubs with stout stinging hairs, flowers clustered in 

 spikes, achene broad compressed, seated on the perianth. * G. 

 heterophylla, tall stout leaves large, long-petioled, broad cordate, 

 7-lobed, coarsely toothed, male spikes below panicled, female above 

 and longer. Moti Tcajoti, dgia, agarra. Slopes of the Ghauts (D.). 

 Matheran and Mahableshwar. S. Konkan (G.). "A formidable 

 plant, the least touch of any part produces most acute pain " (17.). 



Lecanthus, like Elatostemma, but leaves opposite. * L. Wightii 

 (Elatostemma oppositifolium, D.). A succulent herb, leaves ovate or 

 lanceolate, heads of flowers peduncled, receptacles flat, discoid, 

 achene minute. Ghauts (D.). 



The following are cultivated : 



Cannabis sativa, common hemp, bhang, producing also gdnja and 

 charas, cultivated throughout India, but wild in N. W. Himalayas 

 (H.). The Egyptian haschish is a preparation from the husks of the 

 seeds. 



"Of all that Orient lands can vaunt 



Of marvels with our own competing, 

 The strangest is the Haschish plant, 

 And what will follow on its eating." Wliittier. 



Humulus lupulus, the hop, well-known in England, but a native of 

 N. America, is cultivated in N. W. Himalayas. It belongs to the 

 same tribe as the last. 



The various mulberries, Morus, belong to the same tribe as Streblus 

 M. Indica, tut, and M. atropurpuraa, shaitut, are found in gardens. 

 The latter, a Chinese species, has a long cylindrical fruit, and H. 

 considers that it may be only a form of N. alba, the sort most 

 frequently cultivated for silkworms in China, and also in France and 

 Italy. 



Graham was very sanguine of the cultivation of mulberries and 

 the production of silk in the Deccan, but the promising experiments 



