534 cxxxvi. URTICACES:. (J. D. Hooker.) '. Kiny. 



104. P. nemoralis, Wall. Cat. 4517; glabrous, leaves i;i</i!,]irnnoug 

 ovate-elliptic- or ob-lanceolate acuminate entire, nerves 7-12 j :ori- 

 zontal, recepts subsessile axillary subglobose or clavate. Miq. in j\. J. J}. 

 vii. 453; Ann. iii. 295 (excl. verrucosa) ; Brand. For. Fl. 424. F. c:emeib, 



Wall. Cat. 4516, and F. densa, Miq. in L. J. B. 1. c. 545; Ann. I c. F. 

 JFieldingii, Miq. in L. J. JB. I c. 439 ; Ann. I. c. 280, 294. F. trilepis, Miq. 

 Ann. I. c. 294; Wall. Cat. 4494 B. F. binata, Wall. Cat. 4554. 



HIMALAYA, from Hazara to Bhotan, alt. 1500-6500 ft. KHASIA MTS. and 

 ASSAM. 



A small glabrous tree or shrub. Leaves 3-5J in., base cuncate, rarely rounded, 

 3-nerved, nerves and reticulations prominent and dark beneath; petiole ^-1 in. ; 

 stipules lanceolate, convolute, glabrous. Recepts ^ in. diam., all with male fl. ; basal 

 bracts 3, broad, connate ; peduncle in. or less. Male fl. pedicelled, few in the feni. 

 recepts and near the mouth, numerous and sometimes scattered all over the gall 

 recepts. Sepals in all fl. 3, lanceolate, fleshy. Stamens 2-3. Gall ovary ovoid, 

 crustaceous. Achene rounded, wrinkled ; style longer and more lateral than of gall fl. 

 The forms are disposable in two series. I. Recepts ovoid or clavate ; male fl. few, 

 fern, many, galls few or 0. F. nemoralis ; leaf-base rather broad, recepts ovoid 

 shortly peduncled (Central and E. Himal., Asnain). F. trilepis ; recepts clavate 

 young ellipsoid truncate (Central and K. Himal.). II. Eecepts subglobose, male 

 and gall fl. many, fern, few or 0. F. gemella; leaves narrow, recepts sessile 

 (Central Himal. and Assam). F. Fleldingii ; leaves narrow much acuminate, recepts 

 abruptly shortly peduncled (\V. Himal. to 300 ft., E. Himal. to 8000 ft.). Approaches 

 Urostigma. 



Sect. VII. NEOMORPHE (see p. 496). 



105. F. macrocarpa, Wight mss. ; scandent, leaves long-petioled 

 membranous broadly ovate sbortly acuminate sometimes unequal-sided 

 glabrous above pubescent beneath, nerves about 3 pairs, recepts in cauline 

 clusters globose, basal bracts 0. Pogonotrophe macrocarpa, Miq. in Wight 

 Ic. t. 1965. 



NILGHIBI HILLS, alt. 5000 ft., Wight, Gamble. 



A large climbing tree, shoots at first puberulous. Leaves 5 in., base rounded or sub- 

 cordate; petiole 2-2| in. ; stipules J in., lanceolate. Recepts 1-2J in. diam., spotted; 

 peduncles about in., with several bracts at their base. Fem.fi. sessile or pedicelled ; 

 sepals 6 ; ovary subovoid ; style as long, subterminal, hairy ; stigma 2-lobed. 

 Miquel (Ann. iii. 278) refers macrocarpa, Wight, to vagans, lioxb., which is Icevis. 

 Perhaps a form of the following. 



106. F. gnttataj Kurz ; leaves broadly ovate cuspidate sparsely 

 puberulous above minutely villous or glabrescent beneatb, nerves about 

 3 pairs, recepts in cauline and rameal -clusters sbortly peduncled subglobose 

 pubescent, basal bracts 3. Covellia guttata, Wight Ic. t. 1966. 



NILGHIEI and PULNEY HILLS, Wight, Gamble, Beddome. 



A climbing tree, branchlets tomentose at length glabrous. Leaves 4-5 in., base 

 broad, rounded or subcordate, 3-5-nerved. Eecepts 1-1 in. diam., (ripe) blotched. 

 Fem.fi. sessile; sepals 6, style short, stigma widely funnel-shaped. 



107. F. Roxburg-hii, Wall. Cat. 4508; leaves broadly ovate or 

 rounded mucronate entire or tootbed above glabrous or glabrescent beneatb 

 softly pubescent base cordate, nerves 3-4 pairs, recepts on sbort leafless 

 cauline brancblets peduncled turbinate 8-12 ridged. JBrand. For. Fl. 422 ; 

 Kurz For. Fl. ii. 460. F. macropbylla, Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 550 ; Wight Ic. 

 t. 673. F. scleroptera, Griff. Ic. PI. Axiaf. t. 558. F. regia, Miq. Ann. iii. 

 230, 297 (in parQ. Covellia macropbylla, Miq. in L. J. JB. vii. 465. 



