HENSLOVIACE^ TREWIACE^ URTICACE^B. 279 



ORDER CXVIII.—HENSLOVIACEiE,—Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 173. 

 Two trees,natives of tropical India, of unknown properties form this family. 



* Henslovia pubescens. Wall. pi. as. rar. 3, t. 221. Penang. — H, glabra. 

 Wall. Cat. Silhet. 



ORDER CXIX.— TREWIACEiE, Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 174. 



Consists of a couple of trees, natives of tropical India. 

 Trewia, L. {Spreng. syst. 3, p. 895, iVo. 3195.) 



l.nudiflora, Spreng. {syst. 3, p. 906; — Roxb. fl. ind. 3, p. 837; — /. 

 Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 185. — Tetragastris ossea, Giirtn. fr. 1,p. 130, t. 

 109, /. 5. — Rottlera indica, Willd. Gott. diar. hist. nat. I, p. 8, t. 3. 

 —Rheed. 1, t. 42.) f^^^ Pitulee. L. b Cororaandel. Parell Hill, 

 Bombay. Common in the jungle between Nagotnah and the Pass 

 leading to Judapore. Bengal, (Serampore.) Fl. small, whitish-green- 

 ish, H. S. ; fr. R. S. Wood soft and of little value. 



2. atroviridis, Wall. °S Penang. 



ORDER CXX.— URTICACE^, Endl.— Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 175. 



THE NETTLE TRIBE. 



Trees, shrubs or herbs, often lactescent, by Gaudichaud referred (ad- 

 ding Lepurandra, Niramo.) to 66 genera. Of these, Spreng. syst enume- 

 rates 142 species from S. America, Mexico and the W. Indies; 20 from 

 New Holland and the South Sea Islands ; 18 from N. America ; 18 from 

 Mauritius and Bourbon ; 1 2 from Arabia ; 1 3 from Europe ; 5 from China ; 

 5 from Japan ; 5 from Guinea ; 4 from the Canaries ; 3 from N. Africa ; 

 3 from the Straits of Magellan ; 2 from the Levant ; 1 from Persia ; I from 

 Siberia; 1 from Madagascar; and 1 from Patagonia. Adding 1 Lauro- 

 phyllus, 21 species have been discovered in S. Africa, {Harvey,) and in the 

 E. Indies, according to Spreng. syst, Roxb. fl. ind. Wall. Cat. and Royl. 

 ill. 298, viz. of Urtica 59 ; Bohmeria 1 1 ; Procris 21 ; Parietaria 1 ; Can- 

 nabis 1 ; Antiaris 1 ; Conocephalus 2 ; Morus 1 3 ; Broussonetia I ; Ficus 

 167; Lepurandra 1; Dorstenial 1; Artocarpus 14 ; Batis2; Epicarpurus 

 1 ; and Tropins 2. Properties under the diflferent species. 

 A. TjREREiE, Gaudich. 

 {Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 177.) 

 Urtica, L. {Spreng. syst. Z,p. 760. No. S099 ;— Endl. gen. pi. \,p. 283.) 

 Nettle. 



1. smilacifolia, Wall. MSS. B Native place ? Fl. minute, greenish, C. S. 



