508 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



wings) ; pericarp crustaceous stinging ; J seed erect or suberect. — 

 Herbs, undershrubs or shrubs; covering 0, or varying; leaves 

 alternate or more rarely opposite, homoniorpbous or very rarely 

 inequilateral, entire or variously dentate, 3 -ribbed ; ribs basilar 

 branching, never produced to apex of limb ; cystoliths punctiform ; 

 stipules free, generally persistent; flowers in axillary or spiked 

 glomeruli ; male and female monoecious in different species often 

 mixed ; bracts small scarious ; male pedicels 0, or articulate {All 

 Tropical and subtropical regions"). 



19. Memorialis Ham. 3 — Flowers monoecious or rarely dioecious, 

 nearly of Pouzolsia ; segments of male calyx 3-5, ovate, shortly 

 acuminate infract at top of back, transversely crested ; crest 

 wrinkled or more often ciliate ; bud campanulate or turbinate ; 

 prienoration valvate. Stamens 3-5. Eudiment of gynseceum linear- 

 conical glabrous. Female flower and fruit of Pouzolsia ; pericarp 

 black ; wings of calyx (when present) usually marginal. — Herbs, 

 perennial or suffruticose at base ; leaves opposite, ternate, or superior 

 alternate, homomorphous and equilateral, entire 3- or 3-pli- or 5- 

 plicostate ; ribs basilar, produced from base to apex of blade, 

 simple ; cystoliths punctiform ; stipules axillary or axillaiy-lateral, 

 or free, or connate with stipules of opposite leaf ; flowers monoecious 

 in axillary or spiked glomeruli, with both sexes mixed in some 

 species; bracts small scarious {East, continent and islands of India*). 



20. Sarcochlamys Gaudtch. 5 — Flowers dioecious. Male calyx 

 5-partite ; segments ovate-obtuse, imbricate. Stamens 5. Eudi- 

 ment of gynaeceum conoid small densely lanate. Female cahyx 

 shortly unequal-4-lobed, campanulate, soon (owing to 1 -laterally 

 much accrete tube) gibbous ; limb altogether lateral subanatropous 



1 Black, brownish, or ivory-white. Mosc, xix. (1846), 509. — Hyrtanandra Miq., 



2 Spec. about 35. L.,Fl. Zegl.,n. 371 {Parie- PI. Jungh., i. 25; Fl. Ind. Bat., i. p. ii. 260. 

 tana). — Roxb., Fl. Ind., iii. 587 ( Urtica). — 4 Spec, about 12. Roxb., Fl. Ind., iii. 573 

 Benn., PI. Jav. Bar., 67. — Benth., Niger, 518; (Urtica). — Wight, Icon., vi. 36 (Pouzolzia). — 

 Fl. Hongkong., 331.— Wight, Icon., vi. n. 36, Benn., PI. Jav. Far., 66 (Pouzolzia). — Hassk., 

 44, 45. t. 1779 bis, 1980, 2098-2100.— Miq., Fl. Cat. Hort. Bogor., 80.— Wedd., in Ann. Sc. 

 Ind.-Bat., i. p. ii. 260. — Bl., Hits. Lugd.-Bat., Nat., ser. 4, i. 205 (Pouzolzia). — Bl., Mus. 

 ii. 193, 230, 236. — De Solms, in Schweinf. Beitr. Lugd.-Bat., ii. 239 (Pouzolzia). — Benth., Fl. 

 z. Fl. Mth., 889. Hongkong., 332. 



3 In Wall. Cat., n. 1598, 4601.— Wedd., 5 Yog. Bonite, Bot., t. 89.— Wedd., Monogr., 

 Monogr., 415, t. 13, B; Prodr., 235 2 , 235 63 .— 439, t. 16, C; Prodr., 235 M . 



Qonostegia Turcz., in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. 



