Ponzokia.] cxxxvi. URTICACB.S:. (J. I). Hooker.) 585 



morialis scabra, Wedd. Monogr. 423; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 235 s . Urtica 

 foliolosa, Wall. mss. Herb. HohenacJc. No. 335. 



DECCAN PENINSULA, Canara, near Mangalor, Schmidt ; Anamallay Hills, Wight, 

 Beddome. BUKMA, at Taongdong, Wallich. 



Stem 2-4 ft., rigid, terete, and everywhere more or less scabrid. Leaves 3-5 in., 

 more or less rigid, 3-5-nerved. Spikes 12-18, very mauy-fld. ; flowers in rather 

 distant clusters ; bracts very variable. The Burmese specimens in Herb. Wallich are 

 very poor, and bear no number, but the name Urtica foliolosa. 



9. P. caudata, Benn. PL Jav. Ra. 66; glabrous or nearly so, stem 

 tall erect slender, leaves opposite sessile or subsessile membranous oblong 

 to lanceolate acuminate, flowers in slender short axillary and terminal 

 panicled spikes, bracts -^ in. ovate or ovate-lanceolate acuminate, fruit 

 costate or 2-winged. Wight Ic. t. 2097, f. 27. P. courtallensis, Wight I. c. 

 2093, f. 10. P. bracteata, Benn. 1. c. 67. Parietaria bracteata, Wight mss. 

 Memorials bracteata & caudata, Wedd. Monogr. 421 and 425 (excl. figs.); 

 DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 235 5 , 235 6 . Urtica caudata, Wall. Cat. 4600. U. brac- 

 teata, Serb. Wight. 



DECCAX PENINSULA ; Cochin, Johnston. Anamallay Hills, Wight. 



Stem 23 ft., very slender, sparsely pubescent. Leaves 25 in., smooth, nearly 

 glabrous, 3-nerved, base rounded or subcordate. Spikes 1-2 ft., almost filiform ; 

 flowers in rather distant small clusters, bracts very variable. 



** Stem not running out into a bracteate spike. Leaves all subequal, 

 flowers axillary. (See also P. Wightii, var. longifolia), 



f Flowers pentandrous, 



10. P. Bennettiana, Wight Ic. t. 1978; glabrous pubescent or 

 tomentose, stem erect suberect or prostrate terete, leaves opposite or ter- 

 nately whorled sessile or shortly petioled membranous from elliptic-ovate to 

 lanceolate, stamens 5, fruit costate or with 2-4 membranous reticulate 

 wings. Memorialis hirta, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 235 6 (excl. many syns.}. 

 M. hispida, Wedd. Monogr. 426 (excl. ). 



The DECCAN PENINSULA ; from the Concan southwards, CEYLON, ascending to 

 6000 ft. 



This is the common Deccan species, with upper leaves as large as the lower (hence 

 with all the flowers axillary), pentandrous flowers, and fruit with membranous wings. 

 It includes all the varieties included by Weddell under his Memorialis hirta except 

 probably vars. e. and ., of which I have seen no authentic specimens. There is no 

 specimen of it in Wallich's Herbarium, and it is not described by Bennett. Weddell 

 has confounded it with Bennett's P. hispida, which is a North Indian species (iden- 

 tical with his quinquenervis), which differs in the thick opaque wings of the fruit. 

 In the absence of winged fruit I cannot distinguish forms of each, and as I find no 

 winged fruits in the majority of North and Eastern India, nor in any of theSumatran, 

 Javan, Chinese, and Philippine Island specimens, I prefer to regard all these as referable 

 to hispida, with which they agree better in habit than they do with Bennettiana. 

 The following for jas in their extreme states look very different ; winged fruits are 

 common in all but 



P. BENNETTIANA PBOPEB; stem erect pubescent tomentose or glabrate, leave* 

 4-6 in. petioled lanceolate from a rounded base acuminate glabrous puberulous or 

 scaberulous above, glabrous or pubescent beneath, male fl. nearly glabrous. P. 

 Bennettiann, Wight Ic. t. 1978; Blume Mas. Sot. 245. P. quadnalata & hetero- 

 carpa, Wight I. c. 2091, f. 12, and f. 14. P. Hugeliana, Blnme I. c. (fide Weddell}. 

 Elkania ? Hohenack PI. Exsicc. Nilgh., No. 1045. P. *ponia3folia/ Schlecht. PL 

 Exsicc. Ind. Or., No. 1045, and Blume 1. c. 244 (Jide Weddell). Memorialis 

 hirta, j3. Bennettiana, and S. heterocarpa, Wedd. in DC. "l. c. 235 7 . 



