Pouzolzia.~\ cxxxvi. URTICACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 583 



flexure, buds hence truncate. Leaves quite entire ; primary nerves 3, 

 simple, running to the tip of the leaf or near it. 



* Stem, terminating in a bracteate spike the leaves becoming gradually 

 or suddenly smaller (upper leaves not greatly smaller in P. Wiglitii var. 

 acuta). 



6. P. pentandra, Benn. Fl. Jav. 64, t. 14; nearly glabrous, stem 

 terete below angular above, leaves rather membranous sessile or petioled, 

 lower opposite oblong to linear-lanceolate obtuse acute or acuminate entire, 

 upper gradually smaller mostly alternate imbricate, stamens 5, fruit with 

 3-broadly membranous wings. Wight Ic. t. 2096, No. 20; Blume Mus. 

 Sot. ii. 242 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl 240. Memorialis pentandra, Wedd. 

 in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 235 2 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 1148. M. ciliaris, Ham. 

 mss. ; Wedd. Monogr. 417. Urtica pentandra, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 583 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 4598 (excl. B) ; Wight Ic. t. 696. U. hippurioides, Griff. Itin. 

 notes, 362. Gonostegia oppositifolia, Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Mosc. 

 1846, ii. 510. Hyrtanandra pentandra & javanica, Miq. PL Jungh. i. 25, 

 and Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 26. Boehmeria melastomoides, Griff'. Notul. 386 ; Ic. 

 PL Asiat. iv. 563, f. 2. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA from Kangra, eastwards to ASSAM, the KHASTA Mrs. and 

 BENGAL, and southwards to OEISSA and CANARA. DISTRIB. Afghanistan, ? China, 

 Java. 



Annual; stem stout, 2-3 ft., glabrous or hispidulous, erect or more slender and 

 decumbent, ofteu branched. Leaves, cauline -4 in., base rounded or cordate, usually 

 rigid, nerves 3 strong, hispidulous beneath, margins ciliolate; stipules short; floral 

 leaves linear-oblong ovate or cordate. Male fl. pedicelled, truncate in bud with a 

 concave top, ciliate, with often hooked hairs at the flexure ; fern, perianth simple or 

 2-3-winged, very variable. The following forms all pass into one another. 



P. PENTANDRA PROPER ; diffusely branched, stem prostrate below, leaves 

 1-4 in. lanceolate or linear-oblong, floral similar but much smaller. P. pentandra, 

 Roxb. I. c. 



VAR. Stocksii, branches very slender flaccid quite glabrous, leaves glabrous or 

 nearly so, lower floral larger. P. integrifolia, )8, Dalz. in Herb. Hook. Mem. pen- 

 tendra var. Dalzellii, Wedd in DC. I. c. P. Stocksii, Wight Ic. vi. p. 41, n. 18. 

 The Concan and Deccan. I identify this by specimen and drawing in Herb. Wight ; 

 there is no figure of it in the Icones, and I do not understand Weddel's 

 citation, " Wight Ic. t. 2097, n. 28, sub ramosissima" which is, I think, true var. 

 ramosissima. 



VAR. ramosissima, Wedd. in DC. I. c. 235 3 ; stem glabrous or scaberulous, usually 

 tall robust and excessively branched above, floral leaves small ovate-cordate acu- 

 minate. P. ramosissima, Wight Ic. t. 2095, f. 17, and P. Dalzellii, t. 2096, f. 21. 

 The Concan. 



VAR. integrifolia; perfectly smooth and glabrous, leaves 2-2J in. sessile base 

 cordate oblong-lanceolate acute soft, floral \ in. ovate-lanceolate base cordate, margins 

 of all perfectly smooth not ciliate. P. integrifolia, Dalz. mss. The Concan ? Dalzell. 

 A large-leaved flaccid form, unlike any other. 



VAR. WalTceriana ; stem tall erect or suberect glabrous, leavea 3-6 in. petioled 

 flaccid lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate acuminate, base acute, floral petioled large 

 lanceolate, all smooth and scaberulous above, margins usually not ciliate, petiole \-\ in. 

 P. Walkeriana, Wight Ic. t. 2095, f. 16, and glabrn, f. 15. Memorialis aquatica, 

 Wedd. Monogr. 418, and DC. Prodr. xvi. 1, 235 3 (excl. Syns. Moon, and var. 

 /3. eordata). Hyrtauandra Walkeriana, Thwaites Enum. 261. Urtica pentandra, 

 Wall. Cat. 4598 B. Ceylon. The long petiole and acute leaf base are very unlike 

 any ordinary ttate of P. pentandra, but Thwaites sends specimens (No. 3372) with 



