Pilea.'] cxxxvi. UETICACE^;. (J. D. Hooker.) 557 



which are shortly spurred; fern, cymes very short, subsessile ; achenes with rounded 

 margins and the intramarginal ridge very indistinct. 



VAR. sarcocarpa ; acheues with pulvinate rugose fleshy faces and a very thick 

 smooth margin. Assam, Jenkins. 



I do not recognize Wed dell's var. stipularis with the stipules produced into a long 

 point (Khasia Mts., Griffith) as founded on any stable character. In habit and 

 achenes it approaches *P. HooJceriana. The " Uriica triplinervis, Ham. mss.," cited 

 by Weddell as a synonym of P. scripta, is an erroneous reading of Wallich's " 4590 

 CPU. triplinervis, Herb. Heyne." 



15. P. Hookeriana, Wedd. Monogr. 226; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 128; 

 quite glabrous, leaves 4-10 in. long-petioled broadly elliptic or elliptic-ovate 

 to orbicular acuminate or caudate faintly obtusely serrate 3-nerved, base 

 acute or rounded, stipules large oblong green, cymes sessile or subsessile, 

 male fl. in large globose heads, fern, sepals 3 orbicular subequal, achene 

 minute smooth or granular green not margined. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alb. 1-4000 ft., J. D. H., T rentier, Clarice. KHASIA MTS., 

 at Mongpo, alt. 2000 ft. Kohima in the NAGA HILLS, alt. 5500 ft., Clarke. 



A tall robust inouoecious or dioecious species, 6 ft. high, with stem as thick below 

 as the middle finger. Leaves membranous, rarely strongly serrate, cross-nervules 

 distant; petiole 2-5 in.; stipules i-1 in., tip rounded. Male cymes very shortly 

 peduncled ; flowers large in globose heads ^-^ in. diam. ; sepals not spurred; fern, 

 cymes sessile, branches short, dense-fld. ; sepals ciliolate. Achenes -^ in., dark green, 

 some quite smooth and dry, others with a granular herbaceous coat. 



16. P. trinervia, Wight Ic. t. 1973 ; quite glabrous, stem very stout 

 intercedes swollen, leaves 3-6 in. from oblong-lanceolate to broadly elliptic 

 acuminate or caudate serrulate 3-nerved, base acute cuneate or rounded 

 rarely notched or cordate, stipules caducous, cymes long or short peduncled 

 usually much branched, fern, dorsal sepal much the longest, achene granular, 

 margins obtuse. Wedd. Monogr. 224; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 127. P. melasto- 

 nioides, Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, i. 186. 



DECCAN PENINSULA; damp forests of the Nilghiris and other hills. CEYLON; 

 common, ascending to 5000ft., Thwaites. DISTRIB. Malay Islands? 



A very robust succulent mono3cious herb, probably 4-5 ft. high ; internodes close, 

 swollen when fresh, but when dried narrower than the nodes. Leaves very variable 

 in shape, cross-nervules close-set; petiole 1-6 in. Male cymes often widely spread- 

 ing, corymbiform and 6 in. across; flowers scattered or in globose clusters; sepals 

 spurred. Fern, cymes usually slender. Achene -^ in., margins obscurely thickened. 

 This is the only Indian species with the internodes short fleshy and conspicuously 

 thickened. I hesitate to quote under this the Javan species referred to it by Weddell 

 and Miquel, viz. P. pellucid a, mrlustomoides and oreophila, Blume (Mas. Sot. ii. 

 54); P. elongata, Miq. ; and peduncularis, Smith in Rees Cyclop. With regard to 

 Roxburgh's Uriica trinervia (Fl. Ind. iii. 582) of Chittagong, also referred here 

 by Miquel and Weddell, Wight says that it is not his P. trinervia, but a Boeh- 

 wer ia. 



17. P. pachycarpa, Wedd. Monogr. 225; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 128 ; 

 quite glabrous, leaves 2-3 in. elliptic acuminate serrulate 3-nerved, base 

 acute or rounded, stipules small triangular persistent, cymes small shortly 

 peduncled, fern, dorsal sepal longest, achene straight rather large with a 

 herbaceous coat covered with depressed tubercles. 



ASSAM, Griffith, Jenkins. 



Apparently a large branched species, with the stem as thick as the little finger. 

 Leaves rather stiff, cross-nervules not very close ; petiole 1-1| in. Achenes T ^ in. 



