582 cxxxvi. URTICACE^J. (J. D. Hooker.) [Pouzolzict. 



VAR. diffusa; creeping or prostrate or with the branches ascending, leaves all 

 opposite elliptic or ovate, stamens usually 5, fruit ribbed and narrowly 4-winged. 

 P. diffusa, Wight Ic. 1. 2099, f. 36; Wedd. Monogr. 394, and in DC. L c. 226. 

 Nilghiris. 



VAR. microphylla, procumbent, diffuse, leaves in. opposite subsessile ovate acute 

 base rounded or cordate appressed villous ou both surfaces, fruit ribbed and narrowly 

 winged. P. microphylla, Wight Ic. t. 2098, f. 30 j Wedd. Monogr. 397, and in 

 DC. /. c. 227. Malacca, Griffith. 



3. P. tuberosa, Wight Ic. vi. i. 43; root of large tubers, stems flaccid 

 4-angled, leaves opposite below ovate to lanceolate acuminate hairy, stamens 

 4, fruit smooth or ribbed. Wedd. Monogr. 402, and in DC. I. c. 222. 

 Urtica tuberosa, Roxb. Fl. 2nd. iii. 583 ; Wight Ic. t. 697. 



The CIRCARS, Eoxburgh. 



Root in Roxburgh's drawing, copied by Wight, 6 by 2^ in. diam. with basal 

 rootlets. Stems 1-6 ft., flaccid, prostrate or climbing. Leaves 1-3 in. petiole 

 |-| in. Weddell (probably rightly) suggests this being a form of P. indica, of which 

 the root according to Blume is somewhat tuberous. I have seen a rootless authentic 

 specimen from Roxburgh in Herb. Bentham (from Herb. Forsyth); which in no way 

 differs from P. indica ; and a specimen of P. indica in Herb. Wallich (under Urtica 

 glomerata, No. 4069) has a tuberous root 1-| in. long. 



4. P. vesicaria, Wight Ic. vi. 43 ; shrubby, erect, stem 4-6 ft., stout, 

 leaves alternate broadly lanceolate acuminate narrowed into the short 

 petiole, stamens 4, fruit with 6-7 basal inflated vesicles. Wedd. Monogr. 

 414, and in DC. 1. c. 222. Urtica vesicaria, Rood). Fl. Ind. iii. 587 ; Wight 

 Ic. t. 695. 



The CIRCARS, Roxburgh. 



Stem 4-6 ft., somewhat winding, bark smooth ashy. Leaves 2-3 by 1 in. Only 



known from Roxburgh's drawing and Wight's copy of it. I quite expect that it is a 

 form of P. indica. 



5. P. auriculata, Wight Ic. 1980, f. 2, and 2099, f. 37; leaves 

 alternate long or short petioled broadly or narrowly ovate or ovate-lanceolate 

 acute or acuminate, nerves many branching, stamens 5. Wedd. Monogr. 

 393, and in DC. I. c. 225. P. Rheedii, Wight Ic. t. 2099, f. 38. P. rostrata, 

 1980, f. 3, and 2099, f. 34. P. rotnndifolia, t. 2068, f. 31. P. elliptica, t. 32, 

 bicuspidata, f. 33, and scabrida, t. 2100, f. 41. P. propinqua, Blume Mas. 

 Sot. ii. 230. 



CENTRAL INDIA, at Singhboom, Clarke. EASTERN and SOUTHERN DECCAN, 

 Wight, &c. CEYLON, common. 



Usually tall, stout or slender, flaccid or stout. Leaves 1-5 in., pubescent on both 

 surfaces ; petiole 1-3 in., base usually acute. Fruit strigose, very variable, of which 

 Wight's figures represent the extremes, thus in P. bicuspidata and elliptica it is 

 not winged ; in rotundifolia the wings are semicordate ; in scabriada they are narrow 

 from above the middle to the tip. Weddell makes two varieties, one of Rheedii with 

 broai triangular wings truncate above; the other of P. rostrata, with similar wings 

 produced upwards. 



VAR. cymosa, leaves all opposite short petioled, base rounded or cordate, flowers 

 in short spreading cymes. P. cymosa, Wight Ic. t. 1979, f. 2 ; Wedd. Monogr. 396, 

 and in DC. 1. c. 227. Elkania nmltinervis, Schleckt. mss.. Nilghiri Hills, Wight, 

 Clarke. Different as extreme states of this with subsessile leaves and lax-fld. peduucled 

 cymes are from P. auriculata, it is united to that species by intermediates. 



SECT. II. MEMORIALIS. Lobes or segments of the male perianth usually 

 abruptly inflexed about the middle, transversely angled or plaited at the 



