Puuzolzia.] LXV1I. URTICACE^. 405 



1. P. viminea, Wedd. ; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 228. Syn. P. ovalis, Miq. 

 P. borbonica, Wight Ic. t. 2100. 



A small shrub with slender virgate branchlets ; branches, petioles and 

 nerves on the under side of leaves, strigose. Leaves alternate, ovate- 

 lanceolate, pale beneath, acuminate, dentate with large acute teeth, rough 

 with numerous minute raised points, blade 3-6, petiole ^-1 in. long j basal 

 nerves 3, extending to three-fourths the length of leaf. Flowers monoi- 

 cous, in sessile axillary clusters, with numerous ovate bracts. 



Kamaon, Nepal, Sikkim, ascending to 5000 ft. Bhutan, Assam, Kasia hills, 

 Chittagong, Burma, Java. Fl. June-Sept. In Sikkim the leaves are eaten. 



Sarcochlamys pulcherrima, Gaudich. Syn. Urtica pvlch&rriv/ia, Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. iii. 588, is a large shrub with beautiful, alternate, serrate, lanceolate leaves, 

 grey beneath, shining but rough above, with 3 longitudinal nerves, joined by 

 regularly transverse reticulate veins, blade 6-12, petiole 1-2 in. long ; flowers 

 dioicous, in short axillary recurved panicles, 2 from each axil, composed 

 of short glomerate spikes, female perianth obliquely campanulate, the mouth 

 lateral, 4-toothed. Assam, Silhet, Chittagong, Burma, forming in Pegu, with 

 Blumea grandis, Buddleia, and other fast-growing large herbs and shrubs, the 

 dense thicket which springs up on deserted Toungyas. ( Tsatyaben, Burm.) 



4. DEBREGEASIA, Gaudich. 



Shrubs with rough serrate alternate leaves. Flowers monoicous or 

 dioicous, the male clustered, the female in small heads. Male flowers : 

 perianth 4- rarely 3-partite, segments valvate in aestivation. Stamens 4 

 or 3. Pistil rudimentary. Female flowers : perianth tubular, dilated below, 

 with a narrow 4-toothed mouth, more or less adnate to the 1 -celled ovary. 

 Ovule solitary, suberect ; stigma sessile, tufted. Fruit a small drupe, the 

 outer fleshy layer resulting from change during maturation of the perianth 

 and outer stratum of the ovary. Albumen copious. 



Flower-heads in dichotomous cymes . . . . 1. D. Icmgifolia. 

 Flower-heads sessile or subsessile . . . . 2. D. bicolor. 



1. D. longifolia, Weddell in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 235 24 . Syn. Conoce- 

 plicdus niveus, Wight Ic. t. 1959. Missiessya velutina, Wedd. 



A large shrub, branchlets pubescent and often with long scattered hairs. 

 Leaves lanceolate, serrate, upper side rough, under side grey with soft 

 pubescence of fine adpressed hairs, penniveined, the lowest pair of lateral 

 nerves from the base, blade 4-6, petiole 1 in. long. Flowers monoicous, 

 in small heads, on dichotomous axillary cymes, numerous bracteoles mixed 

 with the flowers. Male perianth longer than bracteoles. Fruit yellow, 

 of numerous minute, pointed fleshy berries. 



Kamaon, Nepal, Sikkim, ascending to 5000 ft. Kasia hills, Burma (common 

 on deserted Toungyas), South India, Ceylon, Java. Fr. Oct. -Jan. 



2. D. bicolor, Wedd. 1. c. 235 25 . Syn. D. hypoleuca, Wedd. Missi- 

 essya hypoleuca, Wedd. Urtica bicolor, Eoxb. iii. 589. Boehmeria salici- 

 folia, Don Prodr. Fl. Nep. 60. Vern. Kharwala, shakai, Afg. ; Chainchar, 

 chainjli, chenjiU, amrer, sanddri, Jhelam ; Sansaru, suss, Chenab ; Sidru, 



