URTICACEAE. — DEBREGEASIA 313 



DEBREGEASIA Gaudich. 



Debregeasia longifolia Weddell in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 

 1, 23524 (1869). — Braiidis, Forest Fl. Brit. Ind. 405 (1874).— 

 Koorders, Exkursionsfi. Java, XL 149 (1912). — Rehder in Bailey, 

 Stand. Cycl Hort. II. 973 (1914). 



Urtica longifolia Burmann, Fl. Ind. 197 (sphalm. 297) (1768). 



Urtica tnuricata Heyne in Wallich, Cat. No. 4612'*' "> '^ (nomen nudum) 

 (1828), fide Weddell. 



Urtica angustata Blume, Bijdr. 499 (1825), fide Weddell. 



Debregeasia velutina Gaudichaud, Voy. Bonite Atl. t. 90 (1844-9?) et Exyl. 

 Descr. Planch, par Ch. d'AUeizette 158 (1866). — Weddell in Arch. Mus. 

 Paris, IX. 460, t. IS'' (1856). — Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 590 (1888). — 

 Andr6 in Rev. Hort. 1896, 321, fig. WS.—Gard. Chron. ser. 3, XXXIX. 232, 

 t. suppl. (1906). — Brandis, Ind. Trees, 618 (1906). 



Conocephalus niveus Wight, Icon. PI. Ind. Or. VI. t. 1959 (1853). 



Missiessya velutina Weddell in Ann. Sci. Nat. s6t. 4, I. 195 (1854). 



Morocarpus longifolius Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. II. 156 (1855). — Bed- 

 dome, Fl. Sylv. S. Ind. II. Forest Man. Bot. p. ccxxvi. t. 26, fig. 5 (1874). — 

 Kurz, Forest Fl. Brit. Burma, II. 428 (1877). 



Morocarpus velutinus Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. II. 156 (1855). 



Debregeasia edulis Wright in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 492 (non Weddell) 

 (1894), quoad plantas ex Hupeh et Yunnan. — E. Pritzel in Bot. Jahrb. 



' XXIX. 305 (1900). 



Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, alt. 700-1100 m., 

 June 1907 (No. 21 ; bush 0.9-1.8 m. tall, much branched, fruits orange- 

 red, edible); same locality. May 1907 (No. 21^; d"). Yunnan: 

 Mengtsze, forests, alt. 1800 m., A. Henry (Nos. 10536, 10536''; tree 

 3 m. tall); same locality, mountain forests to southeast, alt. 1600 m., 

 A. Henry (No. 10702; shrub 2.1 m. tall); Szemao, forests, alt. 1300 

 m., A. Henry (No. 12387; tree 3.6 m. tall, flowers white); same 

 locality, mountains to east, alt. 2400 m., ^. Henry (No. 12387"; 

 tree 6 m. tall). 



INDIA. Assam: " Kohima, 4500 ft.," March 1896, King's Collector (No. 

 173). 



Wilson's plant, which has been in cultivation in the Arnold Arboretum, is some- 

 what intermediate between D. longifolia and D. edulis Weddell, of which the sj-n- 

 onyms are given below. It is the same as Henry's 10536, of which the leaves are 

 also rather or quite smooth on the upper side, while the pubescence of the young 

 branchlets and petioles is not so hirsute and spreading as in the tyjiical form and 

 not so short and appressed as in the true D. edulis. 1 am not quite sure if it is 

 possible to distinguish a distinct variety intermediate between the typical longi- 

 folia and what is now called D. edtdis from Japan and probably eastern China. 

 The other numbers of Henry's from Yunnan agree well with the Indian forms. 

 They have a spreading villous or hirsute pubescence on the branchlets and petioles 

 and the upper side of the leaves is more or less scabrid-hairy. It needs further 



