DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AND RARE INDIAN PLANTS. 163 
PLATE 197. 
Нопьетта, King. 
Nat. Ord. Urticacem ; Tribe Conocephalee. 
Dicecious shrubs with alternate entire penni-nerved leaves with small stipules. 
Flowers 10 to 12, sunk in cavities of axillary pedunculate open funnel-shaped 3-4-lobed 
ebracteolate receptacles. MALE FLowers: Perianths oblong, tubular, connate with each 
other below and with the receptacle; the apices free, 2-lobed or 2 toothed: stamens 2, 
the anthers ovate, erect, the filaments connate in a column; pistillode 0. FEMALE 
FLOWERS: perianth tubular-clavate, the apex umbonate and with a small vertical opening. 
Ovary free, clavate; style short, central, included, stigma small: ovule solitary, erect, 
orthotropous. Fruiting receptacle sub-globose, on lobed fleshy receptacles enclosing 1 
to 6 one-seeded fruits with membranous pericarps and the unfertilized flowers. Seed 
erect, sub-globose or flattened, exalbuminous; the cotyledons fleshy, sub-equal, plano- 
convex; radicle minute, straight, lying between the cotyledons near their apices. 
The general affinities of this genus of Urticacee, which was first described in Hooker’s Flora of 
British India, Vol. V, 547, are with the tribe Artocarpee, from which, however, the erect ovule 
excludes it. In this character, as also in its undivided style, it agrees with the Conocephalee ; and, 
amongst the genera of that tribe, it comes nearest to Coussapoa, 
Hullettia dumosa, King in Hook. fil Fl. Br. Ind. V, 547. Glabrous, the young 
branches pubescent. Leaves elongated-obovate or oblong, shortly cuspidate, the base 
narrowed, 6 to 12 in. long and 25 to 3:5 broad; the petioles stout, *5 to 1 in. long. 
Stipules ovate, acute. Receptacles cf male flowers "25 in. in diam., those of the female 
flowers sub-globose or sub-pyriform, 1 to 2 in. in diam., all with short stout peduncles. 
Perak: King's Collector No. 3959; Scortechini, without number. 
Another species of this genus (Н. Grifithiana, King) occurs in Tenasserim. It was first collected 
by Helfer and is his No. 4676—1 (Kew Distribution). The specimen just quoted was described by 
Kurz under the name Dorstenia Griffithii (Flora of Burma, II 462). But it does not agree with the 
characters of that genus. Excellent specimens of Helfer's plant have recently been collected near 
Mergui in Tenasserim by Mr. R. L. Proudlock, Curator of the Botanic Garden, Calcutta, 
Prate 197. Hullettia dumosa, King. 1, branch bearing a mature female receptacle ; 2, male receptacle, seen from 
outside (from another specimen); 3, immature female receptacle; 4 and 6, the same cut obliquely; 6, transverse 
slice of a female receptacle, showing the arrangement of the perianths and ovaries; 7, vertical section of a mature 
sub-globose receptacle containing only one seed; 8, vertical section of а mature lobed receptacle containing several 
seeds; 9, a seed; 10, vertical section of a seed, showing the plano-convex cotyledons and the minute superior 
radicle (г): all of natural size; 11, female flower, showing the tubular perianth cut open and the clavate ovary; 
12, vertical section of a male receptacle, showing the anthers of three flowers; 13 and 14, male flowers with one 
side of the perianth cut away; 15, 16, and 17, the diantherous column of the male flower, seen from different 
points: all enlarged. 
PLATES 198 AND 199. 
Hemiorcuis Рахтихоп, King п. sp., 
Nat, Ord, Scitamineae. 
Herbaceous; rhizome 12 to 18 in. long, branching, sparsely clothed with short fibres. 
Leafy stem distinct from the flowering one and produced after it, 15 to 20 in. long; leaves 
ovate-lanceolate, tapering to each end, sheathing at the base, 6 to 14 in. long and 
Ann. Вот. Bor. Garp. Carc, Vor, V. 
