Villebrunea.] cxxxvi. URTICACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 589 



39. PXPTURUS, Weddell. 



Trees or shrubs, erect or climbing. Leaves alternate, 3-5-nerved ; 

 stipules bifid. Flowers monoecious or dioecious, in spicate or panicled clus- 

 ters ; bracts minute. MALE FL'. Perianth 4-5-fid, valvate. Stamens 4-5. 

 Pislillode woolly. FEM. FL. on an at length fleshy receptacle. Perianth 

 ovoid, narrowed to a minute month. Ovary adherent to the perianth ; 

 stigma linear, elongate ; ovule erect. Achene free within the thinly fleshy 

 perianth. Atbumen scanty ; cotyledons broad. Species 8, Malayan, 

 Mascarene, Australian and Pacific. 



1. P. mollissimus, Wedd. Monogr. 449; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 235 19 ; 

 leaves elliptic or obovate, tip subacue or rounded, base rounded cuneate 

 or subcordate quite entire puberulous above tomentose beneath, fl. clusters 

 in short spikes. Urtica mollissima, Blume JBijd. 501 ; Wall. Cat. 4609. 



PENANG, Porter, Curtis. PEKAK, Scortechini. DISTKIB. Java. 



Branches terete, woody, scurfily tomentose. Leaves 3-5 in., rigid and grey-brown 

 when dry ; nerves 1-2 pairs above the basal ; petiole -| 1 in. Spikes 1-4 in., 

 solitary or fascicled, erect, hoary. 



2. P. velutinus, Wedd. in Ann. So. Nat. Ser. 4, i. 196 ; Monogr. 446, 

 t. D, f. 4-S ; hoary, subsilvery, leaves large long-petioled broadly ovate or 

 ovate-cordate crenate-serrate white beneath, fl. clusters in simple or 

 branched axillary spikes. P. incanus, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 235 18 . 

 Boehmeria velutina, Dene. Herb. Timor. 163. B. incana, HassJc. Cat. Sort. 

 Bogor. 79. Urtica incana, Blume Bijd. 497. Morus paniculata, Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. iii. 600 ; Wight Ic. t. 676. 



NICOBAE ISLANDS, King's Collector. DISTKIB. Malay and Pacific Islands. 



A tree or shrub, branches woody terete hoary, shoots hairy. Leaces 47 in. diam., 

 white beneath with appressed tomentum, nerves several above the basal, cross- 

 nervules many straight ; petiole slender, 2-5 in. ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, 

 ^-cordate, caducous. Spikes usually shorter than the petiole, slender, hoary. 

 Filaments long, recurved. Fern, perianths succulent, in fruit forming pisiform 

 heads with long exserted curved styles. This is the hitherto unrecognized Morus 

 paniculata of Roxburgh, cultivated in the Calcutta Garden from seeds introduced 

 from the Moluccas. 



40. VILLEBRUNEA, Gaud. 



Trees with the characters of Pipturus, but the leaves of some species 

 are penninerved, the fern, perianth is adnate to the ovary, and the 

 achenes adnate to the perianth, the base of which only is fleshy. Species 

 about 8, Indian, Malayan and Japanese. 



1. V. integrifolia, Gaud. Sot. Bonite Voy. t. 91; branches petioles 

 and leaves beneath pubescent or tomentose, leaves 6-14 in. elliptic-oblong 

 caudate quite entire or obscurely crenate penninerved. BlumeMus.Bot. 

 ii. 166; Wedd. Monogr. 452. V. appendiculata, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. 

 i. 235 20 . Oreocnide acuminata, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 427. Urtica appendicu- 

 lata, Wall. Cat. 4604. Celtis elongata & tetrandra, Wall. Cat. 3692 C 

 and 3695 F. 



TROPICAL SIKRIM HIMALAYA, ASSAM, the KHASTA MTS., STLHET, BURMA, 

 MUNNIPORB, CHITTAGONG and TENASSEBIM; ascending to 4000 ft. DBCCAN 

 PENINSULA, from the Concan, Stocks, southwards DISTRIB. ? Malay Islands. 



An evergreen tree. Leaves rather membranous, drying brown, nerves 8-15 pairs, 



