Pilea. | URTICACEZ. 961 
few. ¢ Sepals 4 or 5, ovate-lanceolate, subvalvate or imbricate. 
Petals 0 Stamens 4 or 5, inflexed in bud. Pistillode globose or 
clavate. ¢ Sepals 4, free, imbricate, or connate in a 4-lobed, 
cup-shaped calyx, equal or unequal, with the upper hooded and 
the anterior minute or obsolete. Ovary oblique; ovule solitary, 
erect; style obliquely ovoid or linear, peitthir hooked, some- 
times with 2 basal arms. Fruit an oblique, compressed, mem- 
branous, exserted achene. Seed with very scanty albumen; 
cotyledons broad. 
1916. Fixurya mnrERRUPTA Gaud.; F. B. I. v. 549. Urtica 
interrupta F. I. iii. 585. 
ehar ; C. Bengal; very occasional. 
An annual weed with stinging hairs. Vernac. Lal 
bichiti. 
857. Girardinia Gaud. 
Herbs or undershrubs with stout, stinging hairs ; leaves alter- 
nate, 3-nerved, entire or lobed, serrate; stipules connate 
aceous. Flowers dicecious or (in our species) monecious, alvakens, 
clusters in simple or panicled spikes or oe aware hog ae 
airs; perianth simple. ¢g Sepals 4 or valva tals 
xeaae. 4 or 5, inflexed in bud; filaments him peaibac peerieny 
= cap ahaped. ; Sepals connate in a tubular-ventricose, 2-3- 
toothed nat ,spathaceous. Ovary straight; 
ovule solitary, are: : ined vohuleke papillose. Iruita broad, 
compressed achene, with thickish pericarp, resting on the perianth. 
Seed with membranous testa; albumen scanty ; rene broad. 
1917. GrrarpINIA zEYLANICA Decaisne. G. heterophylla vav. 
zeylanica F. B. I. v. 551. Urtica hy Bd 
iii. D. G. 2138. 
A tall, stout her or undershrub, with very stout, 
stinging hairs. Vernac. Bichua, chichr. 
858. Pilea Lindl. 
Herbs, rarely undershrubs; leaves opposite, those of a pair 
equal or unequal, entire or serrate, 3-nerved at base or very rarely 
Penninerved ; stipules connate, intrapetiolar. min 
moneecious or Be in oe or short-peduncled, dichotamonaly 
branching, axillary eymes; bracts small or. ¢ Sepals 2-4, free 
