Fleurya.} cxxxvi. URTICACE^I. (J. D. Hooker.) 549 



cate or cuneate, cymes spiciform or paniculate, usually mnch larger than 

 the petiole, fern, perianth cupular, 4-lobed or -toothed stipitate, style 

 unequally 3-lobed. Wedd. Monogr. 115, t. 1 A, f . 9 ; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 74; 

 Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 238; Wight Ic. t. 1975; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 

 228. F. spicata & glornerata, Gaud. 1. c. TJrtica interrupta, Linn. Sp. PI. 

 985 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 585; Wight Ic. t. 692 ; Wall. Cat. 4623. U. java- 

 nica, Blume Bijd. 503. U. affinis, Hook. # Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. 4, 69. 

 U. lomatocarpa, Hochstett. in Bot. Zeit. xxxiii. 260. U. spicigera, Steud. 

 Nomencl. ii. 736. Boehmeria javanica, Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bogor. 79. B. in- 

 terrupta, Willd. Sp. PL iv. 342. Burnt. Thes. Zeyl. t. 110, f. 1, 2. 



KHASIA HILLS, Griffith. TAYOT, Gomez. MALACCA, Hallett. DECCAN PE- 

 NINSULA, from the Concan southwards. CEYLON, common. DISTEIB. Malay and 

 Pacific Island?, China, Abyssinia. 



Stem 2-4 ft., erect, flexuous, furrowed, branched. Leaves 2-6 in., sparsely 

 clothed with stinging hairs ; petioles as long as the blade ; stipules 2-fid. Cymes 

 6-12 in., very slender, erect, branchlets recurved. Fern, perianth compressed, 

 ket-led on one side, the keel decurrent on the stipes, reflexed, exposing the cordate 

 achene. 



27. LAPORTEA, Gaud. 



Perennial herbs, shrubs or trees, with (sometimes very minute) stinging 

 hairs. Leaves alternate, entire or toothed, 3- or penninerved. Stipules in 

 opposite free or connate pairs. Flowers mono- or dioecious, in axillary 

 paniculate usually unisexual cymes or racemes, upper cymes usually very 

 long and male, flowers and fruit often reflexed. MALE FL. Sepals 4-5, sub- 

 valvate. Stamens 4-5, inflexed in bud. Pistillode clavate or subglobose. 

 FEM. FL. Perianth-lobes or segments 4, subequal or outer small, one some- 

 times absent. Ovary at length oblique; style linear, papillose on one side; 

 ovule erect. Achene oblique, flattened or compressed, membranous or 

 fleshy, seated on the perianth, sometimes obliquely stipitate. Seed sub- 

 exalbuminous, cotyledons broad. Species about 25, Asiatic, Australian, 

 African and a few North American. 



Sect. I. SCLEPSION, Wedd. Fern, sepals 4, very unequal ; pedicels 

 broadly winged. 



1. Zi. terrain alls. Wight Ic. t. 1972 ; herbaceous, glabrous or pubes- 

 cent, stinging hairs few or many, leaves orbicular to oblong-obovate or 

 -lanceolate acuminate coarsely toothed or serrate base rounded or sub- 

 cordate, male cymes axillary, fern, subterminal panicled long-peduncled, 

 pedicels spathulate broadly winged, fern, sepals very unequal, achenes 

 sharply deflexed. Wedd. Monogr. 125, t. 2 0, f. 1. L. evitata, Wedd. in 

 DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 79. Urtica evitata, Wall. Cat. 4588. 



, SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Kumaon to Mishmi, alt. 4-8000 ft. NILGHIEI 

 MTS., Wight, &c. CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 4-6000 ft. 



Stem 2-4 ft., erect. Leaves 4-10 by 2-8 in., membranous, smooth, pubescent or 

 scaberulous above, very variable in the amount of stinging hairs on both surfaces ; 

 petiole i-lender, l|-6 in. ; stipules i in. or less. Male cymes as long as the petioles, 

 or longer ; sepals subequal, pubescent. Fern, cymes much larger and very long- 

 peduncled; branches and branchlets divaricate; lateral sepals much the largest, 

 pubescent. Achene slightly tubercled on the faces. 



2. Zi. oleracea, Wedd. Monogr. 141, and in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 87 ; 

 nearly glabrous and stingless, leaves broadly ovate acuminate coarsely 

 serrate base rounded subcordate or cuneate. 



