Fouzolzia.] cxxxvi. URTICACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 587 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Chamba, Thomson, eastwards, ascending to 5500 ft. 

 in Kumaon and 7000 in Sikkim. ASSAM, the KHASIA HILLS, alt. 1-5000 ft., CACHAR 

 and the JHEEES. BKHAR, on Parusuath, alt. 3000 ft., Clarke. NICOBAR ISLANDS 

 (Kurz). DISTRIB. China, Maliy Islands, Austra^a. 



Stem 6 in. to 3 ft., oftt-u branched, slender and decumbent or subscandent. Leaves 

 usually membranous, 3-nerved, with rarely a short extra basal pair ; stipules broad, 

 shortly acuminate. Fruit very variable in size and breadth, dull black when ripe, 

 with strong ribs ; achene black or white, shining. I can find no character whereby 

 to separate the common N. Indian P. quinquenervis from the Malayan P. hirta, 

 except in that winged fruits occur here and there in specimens of the former, but 

 never in the latter. On the other hand, winged fruits precisely like those of the 

 Indian occur in a tropical Australian plant referred by Bentham, rightly I think, to 

 P. quinquenervis, from which it differs only in a more robust habit. 1 have seen no 

 specimens of P. hirta from the Deccan proper, though it may occur in Cannra, as it 

 does in Belu.r, which is the northern limit of the Demean Flora. P. Bennettiana, 

 var. oralifolia, is very like states of it, except that it has transparent veined wings of 

 the fruit. 



** Flowers 2-4-androus. 



12. P. integrifolia, Dalz. in Hook. Journ. T3ot. iii. (1851) 134; nearly 

 glabrous or sparsely hairy, stem slender compressed, leaves 2-5 in. opposite 

 and ternately whorled sessile membranous triangular-lanceolate from a 

 broad usually cordate subamplexicaul base 3-nerved, stamens 3-4, fruit 

 costate or with 2-3 membranous wings. Wight Ic. t. 2979 ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 240. Memorialis integrifolia, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 235 8 . 

 M. Dalzellii, Wedd. Monogr. 431. 



The CONCAN and DECCAN ; Belgaum, Ritchie ; Phoonda Ghat on the Syhadree Mts., 

 Dalzell. CANAKA ; on the Bababoodan Hills, Law. 



Somewhat shrubb}', 3-4 ft., root thick (Dalzell). Stem with 2 lines of hairs. 

 Leaves very thin, apparently flaccid when fresh, very sparsely hairy above, ciliate, 

 narrowed from just above the sometimes 5-nerved base to the tip, young more hairy ; 

 stipules short, broad. Male sepals ciliate at the flexure. The membranous leaves of 

 an elongate triangular shape with sessile truncate or cordate bases are the host 

 characters for this plant. Ritchie's and Law's specimens have smaller harsher 

 leaves sometimes ovate, or oblong with rounded bases, passing into P. Bennettiana, 

 var. ovalifolia. 



This is probably another form of P. Wightii. I have seen no winged fruits, only 

 a lanceolate black acutely ribbed achene. 



13*. P parvifolia, Wight Ic. t. 2092, f. 1 ; procumbent, diffusely 

 branched and rooting, stem very slender, leaves $- in. opposite subsessile 

 elliptic or ovate acute or acuminate more or less strigosely hairy 3-nerved, 

 stamens 2-3, fruit very minute costate. P. triandra, Blume Mas. Bot. ii. 

 24-1. Hyrtanandra triandra, Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 262; TJtwaites 

 Enum. 261. Memorialis parvifolia, Wedd. Monogr. 432; DC. Prodr. 

 xvi. i. 235 9 . M. triandra, Wedd. in DC. I. c. Urtica triandra, Blume 

 Bijd. 496. 



CEYLON ; at Newera Elia, Walker, &c. DISTRIB. Java. 



Stems 6-12 in. , spreading from the root, almost filiform, flaccid, more or less 

 pubescent or hirsute. Leaves green when dry, paler beneath ; stipules short, broad, 

 persistent. Flowers minute, solitary or few together ; male sepals ciliate at the 

 flexure. Fruit 4-5-costate. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



P. CONFINIS, Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 230; Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 227. East 



