554 cxxxvi. URTICACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Pilw. 



KHASIA MTS. ; north of Boga pane, alt. 3000 ft., Clarice. 



Stem 6-8 in. from a short stiff creeping base, often branched from the base ; 

 branches slender, terete. Leaves 2-3 by %-% in., not flaccid, base rounded or sub- 

 cordate; petiole ^ J in.; stipules triangular-ovate, obtuse. Achenes minute, sub- 

 orbicular, rather longer than the longest linear-oblong sepal, smooth. 



E. Leaves 3-nerved, those of each pair subequal, more or less crenate 

 serrate or toothed (rarely entire in P. peploides). 



* Achenes quite smooth (mottled, as if rough, in P. pachycarpa). 



8. P. peploides, Hook, fy Arn. Sot. Seech. Voy. 96 ; very small, tufted, 

 flaccid, branched from the base, glabrous, monoecious, leaves long-petioled 

 orbicular-ovate tip rounded entire or crenate above the middle 3-nerved, 

 base cuneate, stipules obscure, cymes sessile androgynous capitate dense- 

 fid., achenes most mimite smooth. Wedd. Monogr. 179. U. peploides, 

 var. /3., Wedd. DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 109 ; Miq. Fl.'Ind. Sat.i. ii. 237. P. pygmsea, 

 Miq. in All. Syst. Verzsichn. 106. Dubrueilia peploides, Gaud, in Freyc. 

 Voy. Bot. 495. 



UPPER WESTEEN HIMALAYA, Lahul and Zanskar, Watt. SIKKIM TRKAT, 

 Gamble. CACHAR, Keenan. BTJKMA, at Mognuug, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4582). 

 DISTRTB. Japan, Java, Sandwich and Gallapago Islands. 



Stems or branches 3-5 in., succulent, flaccid, leafy. Leaves --f in. long and 

 broad, cuneate from the base to the middle; raphides transverse; petiole as long 

 as the blade. Cymes 5 in. diam., lobed. Achene about ^ in., subglobose, quite 

 smooth . 



9. P. Symmeria, Wedd. Monogr. 246; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 134; 

 quite glabrous or leaves rarely above sparsely hairy, leaves 2-6 in. ovate 

 oblong- or ovate-lanceolate caudate- acuminate coarsely serrate 3-nerved 

 base rounded or notched, stipules small deciduous, peduncles long or 'short, 

 male fl. large, dorsal fern, sepal longest, achenes large flattened nearly 

 smooth, edges acute. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 6-10.000 ft. ; Kumaon, Strachey Sf Winterbottom 

 (No. 17). Sikkim, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4528), J. D.H., Clarke. KHASIA HILLS, 

 Shillong, alt. 4400 ft., Clarke. 



Erect from the base, 2-3 ft., slender, monoecious or dioecious. Leaves mem- 

 branous; petiole 13 in. Cymes very variable, when large paniculately branched; 

 peduncle |-3 in. Malefl. in. diam., rather scattered. Achene -^ in. or less, with 

 sometimes a faint intramarginal rough line. Best distinguished by the leaf -bases and 

 large achenes. The stipules are probably large and caducous. Weddell does not 

 describe the fruit, but says the fern, perianth is cupular ; this latter does not differ 

 from the ordinary form in the genus, of one long and two very short lobes or sepals. 

 Duthie's No. 3378, from Kumaon, alt. 9-10,000 ft., with large very coarsely serrate 

 leaves subcordate at the base and small persistent stipules, is perhaps a state of 

 this. 



10. P. Wig-htii, Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, i. 186 ; Monogr. 205 ; 

 DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 125 ; quite glabrous, monoecious, stems creeping below, 

 leaves ovate or rounded ovate acute or acuminate coarsely serrate 3-nerved, 

 stipules short or 0, cymes long-peduncled suberect loosely branched an- 

 drogynous, flowers minute, achenes smooth or nearly so. P. radicans, 

 Wight Ic. t. 1974. P. Hugelii, Slume Mus. Sot. ii. 53. Urtica obesa, 

 Wall. Cat. 4587. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Wallich. Sikkim, alt. 4-7000 ft., J. D. H. 



