584 cxxxvi. URTICACE/E. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Pvuzolzia. 



sessile round -based leaves. Wallich's specimens are from the Calcutta Botanical 

 Garden. 



7. P. Wig-htii, Benn. PL Jav. Rar. 66; stem tall stout hoary or 

 pubescent, lower leaves opposite or 3-nately whorled sessile or petioled from 

 shortly oblong to narrowly lanceolate more or less scabrid above, upper 

 similar or gradually smaller lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate often bractlike, 

 stamens 4, fruit grooved wingless or broadly winged, wings opaque hairy. 



Throughout the WESTERN DECCAN from the Concan southwards, Heyne, &c. 



A taller usually more robust pubescent and larger leaved and bracted plant than 

 P. pentandra, always tetrandrous, with leaves more or less scabrid above. Under 

 this must be included all the Deccan species with the leaves shorter upwards and 4 

 stamens. As with most other species its extreme forms are very definable, the more 

 marked are 



P. WIGHTII PEOPEE ; stem pubescent or puberulous, leaves lanceolate base 

 usually rounded hardly scabrid above, transverse nervules inconspicuous, male sepals 

 more or less hairy above the flexure. P. Wightii, Benn. I. c. ; Wiffht Ic. t. 2093, 

 f . 8. P. ternata, Benn. I. c. ; Wight 1. c. 2093, f. 7. P. ambigua, Wight L c. 2095, 

 f. 19. P. trialata, Wight 1. c. 2097, f. 22. P. eoncinn*, Wiffht I. *<?. 2093, f. 9. 

 Memorialis ternata & ambigua, Wedd. Monogr. 422, 430. M. cordata (3, Wedd. 

 Monogr. t. 13 A. M. concinna, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. 1, 235 4 . M. uilghirensis, 

 /3. trialata & t. ternata, Wedd. in DC. I. c. Urtica ternata, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 

 4599. I find no difference between the type specimens of Bennett's P. Wightii and 

 ternata, and have retained the former of these names. 



VAK. Icevifolia; stem pubescent, leaves oblong-lanceolate coriaceous smooth above 

 harshly tomentose beneath with strong cross-nervules, male sepals glabrous except the 

 tips. P. niJglurensis, Wiffht Ic. t. 2096, f. 26 in part. lyamallay Hills, Wight. 

 This which is marked P. nilghirensis in Wight's Herb, differs in the perfectly smooth 

 upper surface of the leaves. 



VAE. nilghirensis ; stem harshly tomentose or scabrid, leaves coriaceous elliptic 

 ovate oblong or oblong-lanceolate subacute acute or acuminate scabrid above tomeutose 

 beneath, transverse nervules strong, male sepals hirsute above the flexure. P. ovata, 

 oblongifolia & neilgheirensis, Wiffht Ic. t. 2097, f. 24, f. 25 and f. 26. Memorialis 

 nilghirensis, Wedd. Monogr. 428; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 235* (excl. vars. (3, 7 and t). 

 Nilghiri and lyamallay Hills, Wiffht. 



VAE. Wallichiana ; characters of var. nilghirensis with ovate-lanceolate leaves, 

 but floral leaves closer and longer, and male sepals glabrous, as in var. Icevifolia. 

 P. Wajlichiana, Wight Ic. t. 2096, f. 23. Memorialis nilghirensis, var. Wallichiana, 

 Wedd. in DC. I. c. Kilghiri and lyamallay Hills. Wight describes the leaves as 

 nearly glabrous above but all the named specimens in his Herbarium have them very 

 scabrid. Possibly the Icevifolia is the Wallichiana of his description. No doubt 

 intermediates between these three last forms are common. Wight describes 

 Wallichiana. as shrubby and 1012 feet high in the Nilghiris, but seeking support. 



VAK. longifolia; stem scaberulous not elongating at the tip, leaves ovate lanceo- 

 late from a cordate base membranous subscaberulous above puberulous beneath, 

 upper rather smaller than the lower, flowers all axillary, male sepals hirsute above the 

 flexure. P. acuta, Wight Ic. t. 2092, f. 2, and P. longifolia, 2093, f. 6. Memorialis 

 ambigua, Wedd. Monogr. 430, DC. Prodr. I. c. 235 s (excl. Syn. Wight}. Mala- 

 bar, &c. This is I think only a form of Wightii proper, iu which the stem does not 

 elongate into a bracteate spike. 



8. P. scabra, Wight Ic. t. 2097, f. 29 ; scabrid all over, stem tall 

 erect, leaves opposite or ternately whorled sessile rigid from broadly ovate 

 acute to ovate-lanceolate, flowers in slender or stout axillary and terminal 

 panicled spikes, bracts - in. ovate or cordate-ovate acuminate, stamens 4, 

 fruit scabrid cordate 2-winged. P. aspera, Wight I. c. t. 2095, f. 18. Me- 



