588 cxxxvi. URTICACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Pouzokia. 



Indies. It is impossible to identify this by Blume's description. It is said to be 

 allied to scdbrida, Wt. (auriculata, Wt.), but to dift'er in the augled branches. 



P. ORIRNTALIS, Wedd. Monogr. 413, and in DC. 1. c. 222 (Leucococcus orien- 

 lalis, Liebtn. in Koenigl. Danslc. Vidensk. Selsk. Skr. V. Math. ii. 312). This, 

 which Liebman describes as a tree from Tranquebar, Rottler, is undeterminable ; it is 

 probably not a Pouzolzia. 



P. ROTHIANA, JBlume 1. c. 231 ; Wedd. in DC. L c. 226, said to be closely allied 

 to P. minor, Wight (P. indica var. tetraptera) t is undeterminable. 



37. DXSTETCON, Wedd. 



A very slender erect annual herb. Leaves alternate, petioled, coarsely 

 toothed, 3-nerved and penninerved. Flowers monoecious, in small brac- 

 teate 3-fld. androgynous clusters which form slender axillary and long 

 terminal spikes. MALE FL. Perianth campanulate, 2-3-fid, valvate. Stamens 

 2-3, inflexed in bud. Pistillode woolly. FEM. FL. Perianth tubular, ven- 

 tricose. Ovary included and more or less adnate to the perianth ; stigma 

 linear, deciduous ; ovule erect. Achene broadly ovoid, acuminate, included 

 in the thickened fleshy or thin crustaceous perianth ; pericarp fragile. 

 Albumen copious, cotyledons broad. 



D. indicum, Wedd. Monogr. 551, t. 20 A ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 

 275. D. grossum, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 235 62 . Urtica grossa, Wall. 

 Cat. 4615. 



ASSAM, Jenkins, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4581). BUBMA, at Segain, Wallick. 

 DISTRIB. Java. 



Sparsely hairy on the branches, petioles, leaves above and nerves beneath. Stem 

 2-3 ft., sub-4-gonous and deeply grooved when dry, branches erect. Leaves 2-3 in., 

 membranous, broadly ovate, acuminate, base cuneate, rarely rounded or subcordate, 

 brown when dry, paler beneath with patches of whitish cobwebby pubescence between 

 the hairy nerves, giving a mottled appearance, cystoliths punctiform ; petiole 1-1^- h)., 

 very slender. Spikes interrupted; terminal 4-6 in., branched below, axillary shorter; 

 bracts broadly ovate, acuminate, concave ; male fl. minute, tipped with hooked hairs ; 

 fern, strigose. Fruit ^ in. long, ovoid or rhomboid, beaked. 



38. SARCOCHXiABXirS, Gaud. 



A shrub with the habit and characters of Boehmeria, but the fern, 

 perianth is campanulate, the ovary oblique, and the achene enclosed in the 

 ileshy accrescent perianth. The leaves are alternate, and clusters of 

 flowers in long axillary spikes. 



S. pulcherrima, Gaud. Sot. Voy. Bonite, t. 89; Wedd. Monogr. 

 Urtic. 440, t. 16 C ; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 235" ; Brandis For. Fl. 405 ; Kurz 



For. Fl. ii. 426. Urtica pulcherrima, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 588; Wall. Cat. 

 4596. 



ASSAM, the KHASIA HILLS, SILHET, CACHAB, and from CHITTAGONG to TENAS- 

 SEBIM. BENGAL, at Mymensing, Clarke. DISTRIB. Sumatra. 



An evergreen tree or large shrub with tubercled stems and pubescent branchlets. 

 Leaves 4-12 in., from ovate to linear-lanceolate or linear-oblong, acuminate, 3-nerved ; 

 nerves very strong, produced to the tips ; base rounded, glabrous and pustulate above, 

 beneath densely white-tomentose with the nervules tessellately reticulate ; petiole 

 A-2 in. ; stipules 2-fid. Spikes in branched cymes, pubescent, about equalling the 

 petiole; fern. fl. denser, bracteoles toothed. 



