540 cxxxvi. URTICACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Ari <>carpus. 



oblong or -obovate glabrous shining, fruit subglobose lobed nearly glabrous, 

 spines conical shining. 



PERAK, King's Collector. DISTEIB. Sumatra. 



A glabrous tree, attaining 60 ft. ; branches glabrous. Leaves 3-5 in., obtusp or 

 cuspidate, base narrow; nerves 5-6 pairs; petiole 1^-2 in. Fruit 4-8 in. dia<n., 

 irregularly lobed; spines in. and less, stout, spreading, recurved, glabrous, per- 

 forate. 



2. A. bract eatus, King in Ann. Sot. G-ard. Gale,, ined. ; leaves 

 obovate or elliptic-obovate tip rounded puberulous or glabrous above softly 

 or subhispidly puberulous beneath, fruit globose bracteate at the base, spines 

 straight slender terete smooth. A. rufescens, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 431 (not of 

 Miquel). 



MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4663), Maingay (K. D. 1476). 



A tree ; branchlets stout, annulate, fulvous-pubescent. Leaves 6-8 in., reticulate ; 

 nerves 10 pairs ; petiole lin., puberulous ; stipules ovate, acute, silky. Fruit pedun- 

 cled, basal bracts 3-4. " This is the A. rufescens of Kurz, but not of Miquel (Fl. 

 Ind. Sat. Suppl. 420), which that author has subsequently (Ann. Mus. Lugd. Sat. 

 iii. 211) reduced to A. Tampang, which is a 'Variety of A. Lakoocha, Roxb." (G. 

 King). 



3. A. calophylla, Iturz For. Fl. ii. 431 ; leaves broadly ovate or 

 oblong scaberulous above tomentose or pubescent beneath base rounded or 

 subcordate, fruit globose ebracteate, spines straight terete hispid. King in 

 Ann. Bat. G-ard. Calc. ined. 



UPPER TENASSERIM, Falconer, Kurz. 



A medium-sized tree, shoots deeply striate and rugose. Leaves 4-6 in., acute, 

 mucronate, base not narrowed ; nerves 9-11 pairs ; petiole f in. or less ; stipules ovate- 

 lanceolate, tomentose. Fruit 4-5 in. diam. ; peduncle -f in., tawny-tomeutose ; 

 spines J in., perforate. Seeds \ in., obloug or ovoid. Fruit of A. ecldnata, but leaves 

 very different. King throws doubt on the fruit (collected by Kurz) and the leaves 

 (by Falconer) belonging to the same species. 



1-. A. rigrida ? BlumeBijd. 482 ; leaves oblong or oblong-obovate obtuse 

 mature glabrous above tomentose hispidulous or glabrate beneath with 

 pubescent nerves base narrowed, fruit globose ebracteate, spines straight 

 narrowly conical angled scabrid or hispid. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 431 ; Trecul 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat. fttv. 3, viii. 114; Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. i. ii. 286 ; King in 

 Ann. Sot. Gard. Calc. ined. A. echinata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 527 ; Trecul 

 1. c. 113; Wight Ic. t. 680 ; . Miquel I. c. ; Wall. Cat. 4658 (in part}. A. 

 cuspidata, Griff. Notul. iv. 400. 



BURMA, Heifer (Kew Distrib. 4669). PERAK, King's Collector, Bcortechini. 

 PENANG-, Roxburgh. MALACCA, Griffith (K. D. 4664), Maingay (K. D. 1474). 

 DISTRIB. Malay Islands. 



A tree, 50-80 ft. ; shoots strigose. Leaves 4-7 in., hard, .obtuse or subacute, base 

 rounded or acute, above at first scaberulous ; nerves 10-12 pairs ; petiole 1 in. ; 

 stipules lanceolate, strigose. Male receptacle 1 in. diam., globose ; peduncle hispid ; 

 sepals 2, ovate, obtuse, hispid ; bracteoles with flat ciliate tips. Fruit about f in. 

 diam., spines i in. Seeds % in., ovoid or oblong. 



ft Fruit oblong or ovoid. 



5. A. K-unstleri, Xing in Ann. ot. Gard. Calc. ined. ; leaves very 

 large ovate-oblong narrowed at both ends young coarsely serrate appressed 

 hairy beneath, fruit oblong, spines strongly reflexed hispidly tomentose. 



