Trema.] cxxxvi. URTICACE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 485 



hard and roughly shortly hispid, usually shining above, paler beneath, base rounded or 

 cordate, hairs with swollen persistent bases ; petiole in.; stipules longer than the 

 petiole, deciduous. 



5. OIRONNIERA, Gaud. 



Evergreen unarmed trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, penninerved ; 

 stipules sheathing the buds, caducous. Flowers dioecious, in axillary cymes, 

 or the fern, solitary. MALE FL. Sepals 5; broad, obtuse, imbricate. Stamens 

 5, erect in bud. Pistillode woolly. FEM. FL. Sepals narrower than the 

 males, acute. Ovary sessile ; style central, arms 2 filiform ; ovule pendu- 

 lous. Drupe ovoid or suborbicular, terete or compressed, often 2-keeled, 

 endocarp hard. Albumen 0, scanty or copious ; embryo contorted. Species 

 8 or 10, South Indian, Malayan and Chinese. 



1. G. nervosa, Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, x. (1848) 338; 

 DC. Prodr. xv ii. 206 ; branchlets petioles peduncles and leaf -nerves 

 beneath tawny or golden silkily villous, leaves elliptic or oblong acuminate 

 entire subsilky between the very stout nerves beneath, male cymes spici- 

 form, drupe ovoid compressed beaked hispidulous. Kurz For. FL ii. 469 ; 

 Miq. FL Ind. Hat. i. ii. 223 ; SuppL 412 ; Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 74. Anti- 

 desma nervosum, Wall. Cat. 7289. 



PENANG, Porter; PEBAK, MALACCA and SINGAPOEE, Griffith, &c. DISTEIB. 

 Malay Islands. 



A tree attaining 70 ft. Leaves 5-7 in., coriaceous, opaque and glabrous above ; 

 nerves 12-15 pairs, sunk above, very strong beneath, interspaces reticulated, base 

 acute ; petiole |-J in. ; stipules |-1 in., silky. Cymes \-\\ in. ; males rather stout 

 with lew dense-fld. branches; fern, cymes of sparingly branched racemes. Drupe 

 shortly pedicelled, \-\ in. long, obtusely 2-edged. Kurz gives "Burma probably 

 Tenasserim " as a habitat, but I have seen no specimens. 



2. G. subaequalis, Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, x. 339 ; DC. 



Prodr. xvii. 206 ; branchlets stipules young petioles leaf-nerves beneath 

 and cymes sparsely strigose, leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong acuminate 

 entire scaberulous beneath between the nerves shining on both surfaces, 

 drupe broadly ellipsoid compressed r appressed-pubescent. Miq. FL Ind. 

 Bat. i. ii. 222 ; Blume Mus'. Bot. ii. 73. G. nervosa, var. subaequalis, Kurz 

 For. FL ii. 470. G. costata, Miq. in Zoll. Cat. 88, and in FL Ind. Bat. I. c. 

 Sponia annulata, Teijsm. Sf Binnend. in Nat. Tijdsch. NeerL Ind. ii. 363. 



PEEAK, Scortechini, King's Collector. MALACCA, Maingay. ANDAMAN ISLANDS, 

 Kurz. DISTRIB. Malay Islands, China. 



A tree, 70-80 ft. Leaves 5-8 in., sometimes 5 in. broad, pale brown when dry, 

 very coriaceous, reticulate beneath between the 8-10 pairs of strong nerves ; base 

 acute; petiole \-\ in.; stipules J 3- in. Cymes sparingly branched, slender, much 

 longer than in G. nervosa. Drupe -% in., compressed, obtusely 2-edged, usually 

 beaked, rarely orbicular. 



VAE. ceylanica, Thwaites Enum. 268; more slender, leaves narrower caudate- 

 acuminate less rigid and coriaceous sometimes oblanceolate and serrulate towards 

 the tip, stipules smaller silkily villous, fern, cymes very few-fld., drupe smaller 

 subsolitary axillary. G. parvifolia, j8. in part, Planchon I. c. G. subaqualis, Bedd. 

 For. Nan. 219, and FL Si/lvat. t. 313. Helminthospermum scabridum, Thwaites 

 inHook. Journ. Bot. vi. (1854) 303, t. 9 C. Ceylon, in the Central Province, alt. 1000- 

 2000 ft., Walker. Referred by Planchon to G.' parvifolia, but I think, with 

 Thwaites, that it is much nearer G. subcequalis. Better specimens are wanted. 

 Beddome figures the Ceylon G. subcequalis as having only 4~5-uerved leaves, and the 

 male flowers as forming minute axillary clusters. 



