Morns,'] cxxxvi. URTICACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 493 



white sweet, acini very small. Brand. For. Fl. 409 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 

 467. M. alba, var. Isevigata, Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 245. M. glabrata, 

 Wall. mss. 



TROPICAL and SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from the Indus to Assam, wild and 

 cultivated, ascending to 4000 ft. BEHAE, cultivated, Brandis. MARTABAN and 

 TENASSERIM, wild, Kurz. 



A medium-sized tree, shoots stipules and peduncles softly hairy. Leaves 3-7 in., 

 membranous, young sparsely pubescent, base rounded or cordate ; petiole 1 in., 

 pubescent ; stipules slender. Male spikes 4-5 in., slender, villous, shortly peduncled ; 

 fern, as long, glabrous. Fruit insipid. 



VAR. viridis, Bureau 1. c. 245 ; leaves rounded at the top. M. viridis, Ham. in 

 Wall. Cat. 4650. Patna, Hamilton. 



15. SXiOETIA, Teijsm. and Binnend. 



Trees. Leaves large, alternate, entire, penninerved ; stipules lateral, 

 caducous. Flowers monrecious, in solitary or binate axillary long male or 

 androgynous spikes with peltate bracts, of ten unilateral; fern, few, amongst 

 the males. MALE FL. Perianth 3-lobed or -partite, imbricate. Stamens 3, 

 inflexed in bud. Pistillode small. FEM. FL. Sepals 4, embracing the ovary. 



Ovary straight ; style subcentral, persistent, arms 2, very long and slender ; 

 ovule pendulous. Fruit globose or turgidly ovoid, elastically ejected. 



Albumen 0; cotyledons thin, broad, unequal, concave, outer embracing the 

 smaller, radicle elongate. Species 3 or 4, Malayan. 



1. S. Sideroxylon, Teijsm. &( Binnend. in Tijdschrift. Nat. Ver. 1863; 

 leaves petioled 10-12 by 3-5 in. elliptic-oblong or broadly oblanceolate 

 cuspidate base acute subequal. Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 257 ; Kurz in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 168, t. 13. Artocarpus elongatus, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 Suppl. 172, 419. Morns bifaria, Sort. Calcutt. (in part}. * 



SINGAPORE, Kurz. DISTRIB. Java, Sumatra. 



A tall tree ; shoots puberulous ; branchlets smooth. Leaves shining above, sub- 

 scaberulous beneath; nerves 16-22 pairs; petiole |-1 in.; stipules in. Spikes 

 3-5 in., one narrow part of the rachis flowerless. Fruit pisiform. Kurz I.e. describes 

 the nerves as 12 to 15 pairs, but I find (in his specimens) 16-20. 



2. S. penang-iana, Qliv. in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1531 ; leaves 9-15 by 

 3-5 in. subsessile elongate-oblong acuminate broader at the unequal sub- 

 cordate base. 



PENANG-; on Government Hill, Curtis. PERAK; at Goping, King's Collector. 



The form of the leaf distinguishes this from S. Sideroxylon. Old leav^jfrom 

 Perak are very large, glossy above, quite smooth beneath, cordate with ovei 

 lobes, and have a very stout petiole ^in. long. Spikes -f in. long (perhaps 

 developed). 



3. S. Wallichii, King mss. ; leaves 6-9 by 1-3 in. shortly 

 oblanceolate or oblong and widened upwards cuspidate or jjfcuminal 

 very unequal acute obtuse or semicordate. Urticea, Watt. Cat. 9090. 

 bifaria, Hort. Calc. (in part). 



PENANG, Wallich, &c. PERAK, ScortecTiini, King's Collector. MALACCA, 

 gay (Kew Distrib. 1490). SINGAPORE, Murton. DISTRIB. Java? (Herb. HorT. 

 Eogor., No. 7357.) 



A much smaller-leaved species than either of the foregoing, with 10-20 pairs of 

 nerves. Spikes 2-4 in., with a narrow flowerless streak on one side. The Calcutta 

 Garden specimens have elliptic-oblong leaves quite equal at the base. Jp 



