590 cxxxvi. URTICACEA:. (J. D. Hooker.) \Villebruned. 



slender; petiole 1-6 in. ; stipules silkily villons. Flower clusters globose, in small 

 shortly peduncled dichotomously branched hispid cymes from the brunchlets below the 

 leaves, males 3-4-merous. Stigma plumose. Weddell cites U. urophylla, Wall. Cat. 

 437, under this species, but 1 do not find the name in the Catalogue, and No. 437 is a 

 Tiareila. 



VAR. sylvatica ; leaves 4-6 in., narrower oblong or oblong-lanceolate, entire or 

 crenulate above the middle glabrous beneath or pubescent on the nerves only. V. 

 sylvatica, Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 167, f. 16 ; Wedd. Monogr. 453, t. 15 C ; DC. Prodr. 

 xvi. i. 235 21 . Boehmeria sylvatica, Hassk. Hort. Bogor. 79. Oreocnide sylvatica, 

 Mlquel PL Jungh. \. 40; PL Ind. Bat. i. ii. 270; Kurz For. FL ii. 427; Beddome 

 Forester's Nan. 225, t. 26, f. 4. Sikkim, Assam, Burma, the Andaman and Nicobar 

 Islands, the Western Ghats and Ceylon. 



2. V. frutescens, Slume Mus. Bot. ii. 168 ; branchlets pubescent, 

 leaves 4-8 in. elliptic oblong lanceolate or ovate rarely almost rounded 

 acuminate crenulate or serrate nearly throughout 3-nerved and penni- 

 nerved, beneath ashy or white with woolly hairs or glabrate. Brand For. 

 Fl. 406 ; Benth. FL Hongk. 332. Morocarpus microcephalus, Benth. in 

 Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. vi. (18) 74. Urtica frutescens, Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 

 589. Urticea, Wall. Cat. 9091. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Kumaon eastwards, ascending to 5000 ft. in Sikkim. 

 KHASIA MTS., at Shillong, alt. 4000 ft., Clarice. DISTRIB. Japan, China. 



A small tree ; branches very slender. Leaves membranous, sparsely pilose above, 

 drying very dark ; cross-nervules often giving the under surface a tessellated aspect ; 

 petiole -4 in., and nerves very slender ; stipules in., lanceolate, pubescent. Male 

 Ji. in subsessile clusters, fern, in very short cymes. 



41. E HERE & ASIA, Gaud. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, serrate, 3-nerved; stipules 2-fid. 

 Flowers monoecious or dioecious, in capitate sessile panicled or spicate 

 clusters. MALE FL. Sepals 3-5, valvate. Stamens 3-5, inflexed in bud. 

 Pistillode glabrous or woolly. FEM. FL. Receptacle fleshy. Perianth 

 ovoid or obovoid, succulent in fruit, mouth contracted very minute. Ovary 

 straight, included ; style short or 0, stigma penicillate ; ovule erect. 

 Achene at first cohering with the fleshy perianth. Seed with copious or 

 scanty albumen ; cotyledons short, broad. Species 5, trop. Asia, and Africa. 



* Leaves narrow. 



1. D. velutina, Gaud. Bot. Bonite Voy. t. 90; leaves linear- or 

 oblong-lanceolate acuminate serrulate rugose pubescent or scabrid above 

 white- or ashy-tomentose beneath, heads in short sessile dichotomous cymes, 

 male sepals 4 exceeding the bracteoles. Wedd. Monogr. 460, t. 15 A, f 19. 

 Brand. For. Fl. 405; Kurz For. FL ii. 428. D. longifolia, Wedd. in 'DC. 

 Prodr. xvi. i. 235 24 . Missiessya velutina, Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, i. 

 195. Morocarpus longifolius, Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 156 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 

 428; Bedd. For. Man. 226, t. 26, f. 5. M. longifolius & angulatus, 

 Blume I. c. Boehmeria angustata & dichotoma, Hassle. Sort. Bogor. 79. 

 Urtica longifolia, Burm. FL Ind. 297. U. angustata, Blume^Bijdr. 499. 

 U. muricata, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 4612. PU. bicolor, Wall. Cat. 4613. 

 TL verrucosa, Moon. Cat. PI . Ceylon. Conocephalus niveus, Wight Ic. t. 

 1959 ; Dalz. fy Gils. Bomb. F 1 . 239. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 2-5000 ft. ; from Kumaon to Sikkim, alt. 3-6000 ft. 

 ASSAM and the KHASIA HILLS TENASSERIM, Oallatly. The DECCAN PENINSULA, 



