490 cxxxvi. URTICACB^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Streblus. 



like those of 8. scaber, but much larger (2-4 in.), membranous, oblong to obovate, 

 with rounded base, and male spikes ^1 in. Fern. fl. unknown. Probably not a 

 Streblus. 



11. BROUSSONETIA, Vent. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, serrate or lobed ; stipules lateral, 

 deciduous. Flowers dioecious, in solitary capitate or cylindric spikes. 

 MALE FL. Perianth 4-fid, or -lobed, valvate. Stamens 4, 'inflexed in bud. 

 Pistillode minute. FEM. FL. mixed with persistent bracts. Perian ^ ovoid or 

 tubular, 3-4- toothed, persistent. Ovary included, stipitate ; style subulate, 

 2-partite ; ovule pendulous. Achenes in small heads, surrounded with the 

 bracts and perianths, stipitate, exserted, fleshy below crustaceous above ; 

 style excentric. Albumen scanty ; cotyledons oblong, equal, radicle ascending 

 incumbent. Species 2-3, Malayan, Chinese and Japanese. 



B. papyrifera, Vent. Table Regne Veg. iii. 547; branchlets sub- 

 tomentose, leaves obliquely ovate or oblong acuminate entire or (young) 

 sinuately 2-3-lobed and toothed scabrid above pubescent beneath. Bureau, 

 in DC. Prodr. xvii. 224; Brand. For. FL 410; Kurz For. FL ii. 467; Bot. 

 Mag. t. 2358 ; Andrews Sot. Rep. t. 488. 



MABTABAN and AVA HILLS, Kurz. DISTEIB. Malay and Pacific Islands. 



A small tree. Leaves 3-8 in., membranous; petiole 2-3 in. Male spikes 2-3 in., 

 cylindric, peduncled, pubescent. Fern, heads longer peduncled, globose, - in. diam., 

 tomentose. Fruit fleshy, red, shining, stipes long. 



12. AXiXiJEANTHUS, Thwaites. 



Trees, flowering after the leaves fall, sap milky. Leaves alternate, 

 penninerved from the base ; stipules lateral. Flowers dioecious, males in 

 very long cylindric spikes, fern, capitate. MALE FL. Perianth 4-fid, 

 imbricate. Stamens 4, inflexed in bud. Pistillode minute. FEM. FL. mixed 

 with persistent bracts. Perianth tubular, 4-toothed, persistent. Ovary 

 sessile ; style elongate, undivided or with a short basal branch ; ovule 

 pendulous. Achenes in globose tomentose heads, oblique, sessile, surrounded 

 with bracts and perianths, coriaceous. Seed exalbuminous ; embryo recurved, 

 cotyledons broad plicate, radicle ascending incumbent. Species 2 or 3, 

 Indian, Malayan and Cingalese. 



1. A. zeylanicus, Thivaites in Hook. Lond. Journ. Sot. vi. (1854) 302, 

 t. 9 B, and Enum. 263 ; branchlets pubescent, fern, heads solitary. Bureau 

 in DC. Prodr. xvii. 223; Bedd. FL Sylvat. t. 307. 



CEYLON ; in the Central Province, alt. 1-2000 ft. 



A deciduous tree, 30-40 ft.; branchlets terete, hairy. Leaves 3-4 in., distichous, 

 hairy, cordate-lanceolate, acuminate, paler beneath ; petiole in., hairy ; stipules 

 obliquely oblong, acuminate, striate. Fern, heads J in. diam., stoutly peduncled. 



2. A. Kurzii, Hook. /. ; branchlets quite glabrous, fern, heads 

 cymose. Malaisia tortuosa, Kurz For. FL ii. 466 (not of Blume). 



ASSAM, Masters- at Goalpara, Clarke. BUEMA, Griffith (Kern Distrib. 4657). 

 PEGU to TENASSEEIM, Kurz. 



^Branchlets very long, terete. Leaves not seen. Male spikes 1-1 i n - ^ n shortly 

 ped uncled subracemose clusters, pendulous; bracts orbicular. Fern, heads % in. diam., 

 4-6 in a raceme, pubescent. Achenes 6-12 in a head, not protruded, ovoid, acute, 

 coriaceous ; st\le very long, undivided ; cotyledons subequal, broad, thin, incurved. 



