BalanodreUus] cxxxvi. URTICACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 545 



Branchlels pubescent and rough. Leaves 1-3 in., very coriaceous, deep green, 

 elliptic, orbicular, oblong, subrhomboid or lanceolate, tip and teeth spinescent, base 

 acute or obtuse, subequal ; nerves few or many pairs, straight, reticulate and anasto- 

 mos\r\g/jf!pikes in. ; male very dense-fld. ; bracts rounded, ciliolate. Drupe red, 

 tubercled and wrinkled, glabrous. 



22. CONOCEPHAX.US, Blume. 



Climbing shrubs often very large. Leaves alternate, simple, quite 

 entire, penninerved, and sometimes 3-nerved ; stipules connate, intra- 

 petiolar. Flowers dioecious, in axillary usually cymose heads. MALE FL. 

 Perianth tubular or turbinate 4-lobed or -partite, valvate. Stamens 2.-4, 

 erect in bud. Pistillode small. FEM. FL. Perianth oblong or clavate, 4- 

 lobed. Ovary included; style undivided, stigma linear oblique or recurved ; 

 ovule erect, ortliotropous. Achene included. Seed erect, testa membranous, 

 albumen scanty or ; embryo straight ; cotyledons fleshy or thin, equal, 

 radicle short superior. Species about 10, Tropical Asiatic and Malayan. 



The species of this genus are (all but C. suaveolens) very imperfectly described. 



1. C. cuaveoiens, Blume Bfy'd. 483; glabrous, leaves elliptic ovate 

 oblong or subobovatc obtuse obtusely cuspidate or acuminate, base acute 

 obtuse rounded or cordate glabrous or puberulous on one or both surfaces, 

 male in excessively branched cymes, heads very small,* fern, of 3-5 much 

 larger heads, fern. fl. very shortly pedicelled oblong obtusely 4-toothed. 

 Kurz For. FL ii. 430 ; Benn. PI Rar. Jav. 47, t. 12 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 ii. 430. C. ovatus, pubescens, Boxburghii & suaveolens, Trecul in Ann. Sc. 

 Nat. Ser. 3, viii. 87-90, t. 2, f. 37-41. C. naucleiformis, Lindl. Bot. Req. 

 t. 1203. C. gratus, Miq. PL Jungh. i. 43. Urtica naucleiflora, Uoxb. FL 

 Ind. iii. 657 ; Wight Ic. t. 684; Wall. Cat. 4624; Griff. NotuL iv. 385. 



. -Tropical forests of the EASTERN HIMALAYA and the KHASIA MTS., southwards to 

 IpiNAssERiM and MALACCA. DISTRTB. Malay Islands, Cambogia. 



An immense climber ; shoots glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Leaves 610 by 

 0-6 in., dotted and streaked with cystoliths ; nerves 8-12 pairs, above the very short 

 basal ; petiole 2-6 in. ; stipules large, rusty -brown, smooth. Male heads % in. diam., 

 in broad shortly peduncled dichotomous cymes ; stamens 34. Fern, heads 1 in. 

 diam. ; bracts rounded, concave, opposite, deciduous. Flowers sweet-scented, flesh- 

 cold. 



2. C. amoenus, King mss. ; quite glabrous, branches very stout, leaves 

 8-12 by 5-7 in. elliptic or broadly oblong-ovate obtuse shortly 5-7-nervedat 

 the cordate base, nerves 12-15 pairs above the basal, petiole 3-5 in., male 

 cymes with very short thick branches, heads ^ in. diam.- pink, flowers sessile 

 tubular angular 4-toothed, stamens 4, fern, heads fewer 1-2 in. diam., 

 pedicels as thick as the little finger, flowers shortly pedicelled shortly 4- 

 lobed. Urtica superba & amcena, Wall. Cat. 4625, 4626.. 



PEXANQ-, Porter. PEBAK, Scortechtni, King's Collector. 



3. C. Scortechinii, King mss. ; quite glabrous, branches slender 

 smooth, leaves 3-6 in. shortly petioled elliptic- oblong or -lanceolate and 

 acuminate or subobovate and cuspidate, base acute or rounded, nerves 

 6-8 pairs basal 0, petiole ^-1 in., male cymes excessively branched, heads 

 very small and numerous ^ in. diam., perianth 4-lobed -(or partite?), 

 stamens 4, filament very broad, fern, cymes sparingly . branched, heads 



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