550 oxxxvi. URTTCACEJE. (J. D. Hooker,) [Laportea. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; interior valley?, alt. 7-10,000 ft., J. D. H. 

 This has the cymes in a very young state, and is, I think, a slight var. of L. ter- 

 mlnalis with distinctly serrate (not toothed) leaves. 



3. Zi. crenulata, Gaud, in Freyc. Voy. Sot. 498 ; shrubby, dioecious, 

 branches unarmed, leaves from broadly elliptic ovate oblong to elliptic 

 lanceolate acute or acuminate, clothed beneath and often above with 

 small stinging hairs, entire or sinuate crenulate above the middle, base 

 rounded or cordate, cymes short flexuous suberect, fern, pedicels cylindric, 

 sepals subequal, achenes ovate erect. Wedd. Monogr. 133, t. 2 C, f. 5 ; 

 DO. Prodr. xvi. i. 85 ; Brand. For. Flor. 404 ; Kurz For. Flor. ii. 421 ; 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylvat. t. 306 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb, 323 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 i. ii. 230. L. gigantea & latifolia, Gaud. 1. c. t. 81. Urtica crenulata, 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 591; Wight Ic. t. 686; Wall. Cat. 4611. U. gigantea, 

 Pair. ? JSncycl. Suppl. iv. 224. U. sinuata, Blume ? Bijd. 605. II. Churta, 

 Ham. >m Wall. Cat. 4608. Urera javensis & gigantea, Gaud. I. c. 496. 

 U. crenulata & Commersoniana, Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, xiii. 104, 

 105. Dendrocnide crenulata, Miq. PI. Jungh. i. 31. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA; from Sikkim eastwards, ASSAM, the KHASIA MTS. and 

 southwards to PERAK. The Concan, Stocks. CEYLON, ascending to 5000 ft. 

 DISTKIB. Sumatra, Malay Islands. 



An evergreen shrub, 8-10 ft., or small tree ; branches stout, terete' green. Leaves 

 9-12 in., largest 16 by 12 in., base acute obtuse cordate or notched, nerves 12-16 

 pairs ; petiole stout, 1-4 in. ; stipules ovate lanceolate. Cymes longer than the 

 petioles, dichotomously branched; flower-clusters remote, often unilateral; flowers 

 subsessile. Male perianth 4-partite; fern, subcampanulate, lobes acute. Achene 

 oblique, ventricose, seated on the minute perianth, crowned with the style. 



28. GZRARDINXA, Gaud. 



Herbs or undershrubs with stout stinging hairs. Leaves alternate, 

 3-nerved, entire or lobed, serrate ; stipules connate, foliaceous. Flowers 

 dioecious or monoecious, clustered, clusters in simple or panicled spikes or 

 heads armed with stinging hairs. MALE FL. Sepals 4-5, valvate. Sfamens 

 4-5, inflexed in bud. Pistil/ode globose or cupular. FEM. FL. Perianth 

 tubular, ventricose, 2-3-toothed, at length split on one side. Ovary 

 straight; stigma subulate, papillose ; ovule erect. Achene broad, com- 



i thickish. Seed sub-exalbuminous ; 



Asia and Africa. 



DUJ.CVJIJU.V 9 O UAi JUUlttJ O Li U U.J.CL U^j VJCL LMJ. i UoC 9 V 



pressed, seated on the perianth, pericarp 

 cotyledons broad. Species 7, Tropical i 



G-. heterophylla, Dene, in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 151, t. 153; a tal* 

 coarse herb armed with very long stout stinging hairs, leaves large broad 

 cordate variously lobed often palmately coarsely toothed pubescent, 

 stipules large 2-fid, cymes peduncled lower male subcylindric, upper fern, 

 with capitate clusters. Wedd. Monogr. 164; DC. Prodr. xvi.i. 100 ; Blume 

 Mus. Bot. ii. 158; Brand. For. Flor. 404; Dalz. 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 238 ; 

 Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 323. Urtica heterophylla, Valil Symb. i. 76 ; 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. in. 586; Wight Ic. t. 687 ; Wall. Cat. 4603. U. diversifolia 

 & horrida, Link. Enum. Hort. Berol. ii. 385. U. palmata, Forsk. FL 

 JEgypt. irj$.Rheede Hort. Mai. ii. t. 41. 



TEMPERATE and SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Marri eastwards, ascending to 

 TOGO ft. ASSAM, SILHET and southwards to PURMA ; and from MAKWAR and 

 CENTRAL IM>IA to TRAVANCORE. CEYL N, not uncommon. DISTRIB. Java. 



A tnll stout erect tulted herb, 4-6 It., with perenrial roots; stem and branches 



