, ft. King.'] cxxxvi. URTICACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 523 



TH////' ft: t. 638; Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 243. F. ckemonnjn, Keen, in 

 Ro.rb. 1. c. 502 ; Wight Ic. 641 ; Wall. Cat. 4538. F. prominens, Wall. 

 Cat. 4537; Miq. Ann. iii. 291. F. mollis, Wllld. in Act. Eerol. 1798, 103, 

 t. 5. F. scabra, Jacq. Hort. Schcenl). iii. t. 315. Covellia dremonum, Miq. 

 in L. J. B. vii. 461 ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. I. c. 244. C. oppositifolia, Gasp. Rich. 

 85 ; Miq. in L. J. B. I c. ; Griff. Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 560. C. setulosa, cour- 

 tallensis, Wightiana, assamica & dasycarpa, Miq. in L. J. B. I. c. 46T~to 

 464 ; Flor. i. ii. 323. Sycomorpha Roxburghii, Miq. 



Throughout INDIA, from the PAN JAB in the N.W. to MALACCA and CEYLON. 

 DISTKIB. Malay Islands, China, Australia. 



A shrub or small tree. Leaves usually opposite, 4-12 in.; base rounded cuneate 

 or subcordate, rather scabrid above, hispid beneath ; petiole -! i n - or on shoots 

 3-3| in., hispid ; stipules ^ in., pubescent, often in whorls of 4 on the receptacles 

 with leafless branches. Receptacles ripe hispid yellowish, with bracts scattered on the 

 sides; peduncle -% in. ; basal bracts 3. Flowers much as in F. conglobata, but fern. 

 style hairy and stigma cylindric tubular. Receptacles often hypogeal in sandy coast 

 of Coromandel. 



71. F, saemocarpa, Miq. Ann. Mus. iii. 232, 296 ; branchlets hirsute, 

 leaves opposite crowded linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate entire, nerves 6-8 

 pairs, recepts solitary axillary or in short panicles from the old wood sub- 

 globose, base constricted 8-10-ribbed warted and hispid. F. pyrrhocarpa, 

 Run For. Fl. ii. 424. F. tuberculata, Wall. Cat. 4539. F. squamosa, 

 Roxb., and F. laminosa, Hardw. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 531. 



Foot of the HIMALAYA ; in sandy and rocky streams from Kumaon to Bhotan. 

 ASSAM, the KHASIA HILLS and BURMA. 



A low shrub; branchlets hirsute. Leaves 39 in., smooth, rarely scabrid above, 

 beneath smooth or scaberulous, rarely hispid, base narrowed, 3-nerved ; petiole |-1 in., 

 pubescent ; stipules in pairs, J | in., ovate, acuminate, nearly glabrous. Recepts ^-1 in. 

 diam., with scattered bracts on the sides, umbilicus large ; peduncle -f | in., pubes- 

 cent ; basal bracts 3, triangular, deciduous. Male fl. ; stamen 1, anther ovate or 

 obovate. Fein. fl. ; perianth 0. Gall ovary smooth, style short lateral. Achene 

 rhomboid, and very long style hairy. Leaves variable as to pubescence. 



72. F. Cunia, Ham. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 561 ; leaves alternate ellip- 

 tic to oblong-lanceolate inequilateral acuminate entire or serrate, above 

 scabrid or smooth, beneath more or less pubescent, base semisagittate, 

 nerves 9-14 pairs, recepts in pairs or clusters on scaly usually leafless 

 branches globose or pyriform hispid. Wight Ic. t. 648 ; Miq. Ann. iii. 

 282, 296 ; Brand. For. Fl. 421 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 461 ; JBedd. For. Man. 

 224. F. conglomerata, Roxb. I. c. 559; Wight Ic. t. 669; Wall. Cat. 

 4531. Covellia Cunia, conglomerata & insequiloba, Miq. in L. J. B. 

 vii. 459. 



SUB -HIMALAYAN FORESTS, from the Chenab to Bhotan ; CENTRAL INDIA, ASSAM, 

 the KHASIA MTS., CHITTAGONG and BURMA ; ascending to 4000 ft. 



A low tree. Leaves -1 in., larger basal lobe 3-4-, smaller 1-nerved; petiole 

 -i f in., scabrid ; stipules f-1 in., linear-lanceolate, puberulous. Recepts % in. diam., 

 i-ipe red-brown ; basal bracts 3 ; peduncle short. Male sepals 3 ; anther ovate. 

 Gall and/em, sepals about 4, lanceolate, united below; gall ovary globose, smooth ; 

 style very short, lateral. Achene broadly ovoid, emarginate on one side, tuberculate, 

 viscid ; style very long, lateral ; stigma large, bifid. 



73. F. prostrata, Wall. Cat. 4536 ; glabrous, leaves alternate oblan- 

 ceolate oblong long-acuminate entire, nerves about 10 pairs, receptacles sub- 

 pyriform on long flexuous nearly simple leafless branches solitary in the 



