Prainea.] oxxxvi. URTICAOE^:. (J. D. Hooker.)' 547 



included ; ovule erect, orthotropous. Fruit globose, of many dry abortive 

 flowers and one or few oblong achenes enclosed in their enlarged fleshy 

 perianths. .Embryo exalbuminous, cotyledons plano-convex, radicle 

 minute superior. 



P. scandens, King mss. 



PERAK ; in dense forests, King's Collector. 



A climber, 50-100 ft. ; stem 12-15 in. diam. Leaves 3-8 in., thinly coriaceous, 

 elliptic- or obovate-oblong, quite smooth on both surfaces, yellowish brown when dry, 

 base acute ; nerves 10-12 pairs, very slender; petiole - in., very slender. Male 

 heads |-1 in. diam., peduncle stout, 1-1^ in.; bracts minute, hairy, long-stipitate. 

 Fern, heads 1 1-2 in. diam. ; flowers \ in. long. Habit of Conocephalus. 



24. HTJLLETTIA (KtmziA, p. 479), King mss. 



Dioecious shrubs, branchlets tomentose. Leaves alternate, quite entire, 

 penninerved; stipules small. Flowers 10-12, sunk in cavities of axillary 

 peduncled open funnel-shaped 3-4 lobed receptacles. MALE FL. Perianths 

 oblong, tubular, connate below and with the receptacle, tip free, 2-lobed or 

 -toothed. Stamens 2, filaments connate in a column; anthers ovoid, erect. 

 Pistillode 0. FEM. FL. Perianth tubular-clavate, mouth minute. Ovary 

 free, clavate ; style short, central, included, stigma minute ; ovule erect, 

 orthotropous. Fruiting receptacle subglobose or lobed, fleshy, 1-6 seeded ; 

 pericarp membranous. Seed erect, subglobose or flattened; cotyledons sub- 

 equal, plano-convex, radicle minute included. 



Dr. King informs me that the name Kurzia, which he originally proposed for this 

 genus, is preoccupied, and that he has replaced it by Hullettia, in recognition of Mr. 

 Hullett's valuable contributions to a knowledge of the Singapore Flora. 



1. H. G-riffithiana, King mss. ; leaves cordate or rounded at the 

 contracted base, peduncles elongate slender. Dorstenia Griffithiana, Kurz 

 in Beng. As. Soc. Journ. ; For. Fl. ii. 462. 



TENASSERIM ; at Mergui, Griffith (Kew Disfrib. 4676), Heifer (K. D. 4676). 



An evergreen shrub, branches stout. Leaves 8-16 in., cuspidate, coriaceous, mar- 

 gins undulate, shining above, scaberulous beneath ; nerves 15-20 pairs, very strong 

 beneath, spreading ; petiole $-% in. ; stipules subulate, tomentose. Peduncles 1^-2 in., 

 pubescent. Fruiting receptacles 1-2 in. diam., velvety ; involucral bracts minute, 

 reflexed. 



2. H. dumosa. King mss. ; leaves acuminate at the base, peduncles 

 very short stout. 



PEEAK, Scortechini, King's Collector. 



Habit and general characters of H. Griffithiana. 



25. URTXCA, Linn.' 



Annual or perennial herbs, rarely suffruticose, with stinging hairs. 

 Leaves opposite, toothed or lobulate, base 3-7-nerved ; stipules lateral, free 

 or connate. Flowers mono- or dioecious, in axillary unisexual or an- 

 drogynous cymose clusters. MALE FL. Sepals 4, ovate, imbricate. Stamens 

 4, inflexed in bud. Pistillode cupular. FEM. FL. Sepals 4, outer usually 

 much smaller. Ovary straight, stigma sessile or subsessile, feathery or 

 penicillate ; ovule erect, orthotropous. Acliene embraced by the sepals, 

 ovoid or oblong, compressed, membranous or thinly crustaceous. Seed erect, 

 adherent to the pericarp, albumen scanty, cotyledons rounded. Species 

 about 30, temperate and subtropical. 



