486 cxxxvi. URTICACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) (Gironniera. 



VAB. birmanica ; leaves large elliptic more membranous crenate -serrate above the 

 middle. Tenasserim, on Mount Moolyet, Beddome (fern. fl. only). 



3. Q. parvlfolia, Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, x. (1848) 338; 

 DC. Prodr. xvii. 206 (eoccl. syn.} ; branchlets young petioles stipules and 

 leaf-nerves beneath faintly strigose, leaves elliptic ovate or ovate-lanceolate 

 acuminate rather shining nearly smooth beneath, male cymes very slender 

 much branched, flowers very minute, drupe ovoid or orbicular compressed 

 2-edged appressed puberulous. Miq. FL Ind. Sat. i. ii. 223. 



PEBAK, Scortechini, King's Collector. PENANG, Maivgay (Keio Distrib. 1470). 

 MALACCA, Griffith. 



A shrub or small tree ; branches slender. Leaves 3-5 in., quite entire, reticulate, 

 nearly smooth beneath between the 6-8 pairs of rather slender raised nerves ; petiole 

 ~ \ in. ; stipules $ in., silkily strigose. Male cymes with scattered clusters of 2-3 

 flowers, peduncle and branches filiform. Fern, cymes few-fld. Drupes 2-3 on a long 

 slender peduncle, -i in. broad, often long-beaked, and with the style-arms 1 in. long. 

 Planchon, erroneously including the Cingalese G. subaqualis var. ceylanica, describes 

 the leaves as serrate above the middle. 



4. Cr. reticulata, ThwaitesJEnum.268; glabrous except the youngest 

 shoots, leaves oblong- to ovate-lanceolate acuminate or caudate base 

 rounded or acute quite smooth and glabrous on both surfaces, male cymes 

 much branched, fern, few-fld., drupes large solitary axillary ovoid hardly 

 compressed quite glabrous. JBedd. Fl. Sylvat. t. 313. G. cuspidata, Kurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 470. Spoiiia subserrata, Kurz in Flora, 1872, 448. Aphananthe 

 cuspidata, Planch, in DC. Prodr. xvii. 209. Galumpita cuspidata, Slume 

 Mus. Sot. ii. 73 ; Mig. Fl. Ind. Sat. i. ii. 224. Cyclostemon cuspidatum, 

 Blume Bijd. 599. Helminthosperma glabrescens, Thu'aites mss. Celtis 

 reticulata, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. fy T. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 1-3000 ft., Kurz, &c. ASSAM ; Goalpara, Hamilton. 

 KnASiA MTS., alt. 2000 ft., Mann. UPPER BUEMA, at the Serpentine mines, Griffith. 

 PEGU, Kurz. DECCAN PENINSULA ; on the Ghats from S. Canara to Travancore. 

 CEYLON ; Badulla district, ascending to 3000 ft. DISTEIB. Java. 



A lofty tree, branchlets slender, glabrous. Leaves 3-7 in., very long-pointed, 

 finely reticulated on both surfaces, young serrulate above the middle, often shining 

 above ; nerves 10-12 pairs, slender ; petiole \-\ in. Male cymes shortly peduncled ; 

 branches short, many-fld. ; flowers nearly glabrous ; pistillode of male a very small 

 tuft of hairs. Drupes about as long as their pedicel, ^-f in. long, stoutly beaked, 

 obscurely 2-augled. 



5. G. lucicla, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 470 ; quite glabrous, leaves oblong or 

 oblong-lanceolate or -ovate acuminate shining on both surfaces, base 

 rounded or cuneate, male cymes shortly peduncled much branched quite 

 glabrous, drupes large solitary axillary ovoid hardly compressed quite 

 glabrous. 



SOUTH ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz, King's Collector. 



A tree, 30-40 ft. Leares 5-8 in., very coriaceous, glossy above with 10-15 pairs 

 of impressed nerves, reticulate beneath; petiole - in. Male fl. and drupe as in 

 G. reticulata, from which G. lucida differs chiefly in the larger more coriaceous 

 glossy foliage, with more leaf -nerves. 



5*. HUBIUX.VS, Linn. 



Perennial, twining, scabrid herbs. Leaves opposite, lobed, palmatinerved ; 

 stipules lateral, persistent. Flowers dioecious, males panicled; fern, in pairs 

 in the axils of the broad bracts of a catkin-like ovoid spike, bracteate and 

 2-bracteolate. MALE FL. Sepals 5, imbricate. Stamens 5, adnate to the 



