536 cxxxvi. URTICACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [l*'i<:ua, G. Ki-ny. 



nerves 4-6 pairs, recepts on cauline and rameal short leafless scaly branches 

 rarely axillary peduncled pyriform turbinate or subglobose all bearing male 

 fern, and gall fl. Wight Ic. t. 667; Miq. Ann. iii. 297 ; Brand. For. Ft. 

 422, t. 49 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 458 ; Bedd. For. Man. 224 ; Wall. Gat. 4511 A. 

 F. chittagonga, Miq. Ann. I. c. 294; Kurz L c. 596. F. -racemosa, \Vall. 

 Cat. 4549. F. mollis, Miq. Ann. I. c. 283, 296. F. Goolereea, Boxl. Fl. Ind. 

 iii. 538. Covellia glomerata, Miq. in L. J. B. vii. 465 ; Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 213. 0. mollis, Miq. in L. J. B. I. c. 466 ; Flor. 326. 



OUTER HIMALAYA and plains and low bills of INDIA, from Rajpootana and the Salt 

 Range to the Khasia Mts., Burma, the Deccan Peninsula and CEYLON. 



A tree, shoots glabrous or pubescent. Leaves 4-7 in., tapering to the point, 

 entire, base obtuse, rarely acute, 3-nerved; petiole 1-2 in.; stipules J 1 in., ovate- 

 lanceolate, pubescent. Recepts 1% in. diam., reddish, umbilicus depressed, base of 

 young much contracted; basal bracts 3. Male fl. near the mouth of the recept; 

 sepals 3-4, inflated. Gall and fern. fl. intermixed, perianth toothed ; gall ovary 

 ovoid, rough. Achene granulate, stigma clavate. Three forms are definable: 

 F. chittagonga ; shoots leaves beneath and pyriform recepts pubescent, leaves ovate- 

 oblong or -lanceolate. F. Goolereea, Roxb.; leaves of the type, recepts densely white- 

 pubescent. F. mollis; leaves softly pubescent above and beneath (Java). VAB. 

 elongata ; leaves 7 in. -oblong acute (Burma, Chittagong). Only distinguished from 

 F. lanceolata by the recepts, which are not ridged and warted. 



111. F. Clarkei; King leaves glabrous unequal-sided oblong or 

 narrow-oblong entire or 1-2-toothed near the cuspidate tip, nerves 6-8 

 pairs, recepts .in short cauline and rameal scaly panicles peduncled pyriform 

 smooth red. 



KHASIA HILLS ; alt. 5000 ft., Clarice. 



A tall tree, bark whitish, shoots hispidly scabrid. Leaves 6-10 in., obscurely 

 granulate beneath, base cuneate, 3-nerved ; nerves spreading, prominent beneath ; 

 petiole -| in. ; stipules as long, lanceolate, convolute. Recepts 1 in. diam., red, base 

 contracted into a long stipes, with 3 basal ovate-lanceolate bracts ; peduncle 

 ^ in., puberulous. Male fl. at the apex of the receptacle ; ^flftls 3, large, loose ; 

 stamens 2-3, filaments short, anthers ovate apiculate. Gall pertvwh with 3 linear- 

 lanceolate teeth ; ovary ovoid, slightly tubercled ; stigma cyliud^c. Fern. fl. not 



112. P. lanceolata, Ham. in Roxl). Fl. Ind. iii. 557 ; leaves mem- 

 branous narrow-lanceolate entire or remotely serrate granulate beneath, 

 nerves 6-8 pairs, recepts in cauline and rameal clusters of 6-8 peduncled 

 pyriform glabrous with white warts, top depressed. Wight Ic. t. 645 ; Miq. 

 Ann. iii. 297 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 457 ; Wall. Cat. 4512. Covellia lanceolata, 

 Miq. in L. J. B. vii. 465. 



KHASIA HILLS, Mann. CHITTAGONG, Lister, Gamble. BUEMA, Kurz. 



A much-branched glabrous shrub. Leaves 4-8 in., base 3-nerved ; petiole J-i in. ; 

 stipules i in., lanceolate. Recepts 1-lj in. diam., (ripe) russet-brown with white 

 warts, young turbinate, top concave, base slightly constricted ; basal bracts 3, minute, 

 ovate, acute. Male sepals 3-4, large, inflated. G-all and fern, perianth 3-toothed ; 

 gall ovary ovoid, smooth ; style short, subterminal, stigma dilated. Achene obliquely 

 ovoid, granulate ; style elongate, lateral, stigma clavate. Related to F. glomerata 

 & Roxburghii. 



UNDETEEMINABLE AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



F. ABBREVIATA, Wall. Cat. 4573, from Singapore, is not determinable. 

 F. BIGLANDTJLOSA, Wall. Cat. 4480, is a Chinese species. 



F. ALTEHNANS, Wall. Cut. 4555. Siam ? (Herb. Finlayson.) There is no specimen 

 answering to this number in Herb. Wallich. 



