616 C. MOEACEiE [Plnjllochlamys 



Ceylon, dry region. Malay Penins. and Arckip. A small gnarled glabrous evergreen 

 tree, armed with spinescent branchlets and straight sharp, woody spines, 1. membranous, 

 lanceolate or rhomboid-oblanceolate irregularly serrate, 1-4 in. long, pet. very short. 

 Fl. dioecious, <J in clustered nearly sessile involucrate heads, 9 solitary, perianth of 4 

 lanceolate sepals, much enlarged in fr.. longer than the 'yellow cup-shaped pericarp, 

 from which the seed, enclosed in a thin endocarp, protrudes in a way similar to the 

 seed of Taxus. 



Taxotrophis zeylanica, Thwaites ; Bedd. Man. t. 26, fig. 3 (10-16). — Syn. Epicarpurus 

 zeylanica, Thw. ; Wight Ic. t. 1962 (the lower left-hand figure) ; Streblus zeylanica, 

 Kurz. Western Duars, in places forming thickets at the foot of the hills. Upper 

 Burma. — Ceylon. A large rigid shrub, sometimes armed with axillary spines, 1. 

 alternate, penninerved, membranous, serrate. Fl. dioecious, fr. obliquely subglobose, 

 subtended by sepals, crowned by the lateral 2-partite style. 



Order CI. URTICACEjE. Engler in Engl. u. Prantl iii. 1. 98. 

 (Urticacece, tribe VII. Vrticeoz. Gen. PI. iii. 348.) 



Mostly herbs, in a few genera shrubs and trees, sap watery L. as a rule 

 dentate, alternate stipulate, with 3 basal nerves. Fl. unisexual, sessile, as a 

 rule in compact heads or clusters, stamens 4-5, opposite to sepals or perianth- 

 segments, filaments inflexed in bud ; § perianth campamdate, ovoid or tubular, 

 free not confluent, often succulent in fr., rarely 0. Ovule erect, orthotropous. 



Bast-fibres strongly developed in the bark, often very long. Cystolith cells con- 

 spicuous in the epidermis. No laticiferous tubes. Stinging hairs in some genera. 

 I. Branchlets, petioles and inflorescence armed with 



stinging hairs Laportea (p. 616). 



II. No stinging hairs. 



A. 9 perianth tubular, ovoid or campanulate. 



Fruiting heads dry. 



Stigma filiform, persistent . . .1. Bcehmeria. 



Stigma filiform, deciduous . . . Pouzolzia (p. 617). 

 Fruiting heads succulent. 



Style long-exserted, curved . . . Pipturus (p. 617). 

 Stigma sessile, ciliate or pedunculate. 



Perianth obliquely campanulate . . Sarcochlamys (p. 618). 



Perianth ovoid, mouth minute. 



L. white or grey beneath, tertiary n. 



parallel, prominent . . .2. Debregeasia. 

 L. green beneath, tertiary n. not 



prominent ... . . 3. Vileebrunea. 



B. 9 perianth Maoutia (p. 619). 



Laportea crenulata, Gaud. ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 306. — Syn. Tlrtica crenulata, Roxb. ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 686. Vern. Chorpatta, Beng. ; Otta-pilavu, Tarn. ; Ana-choriya, Mai. ; 

 Pet-ya-gyi, Burm. Subhiinalayan tract from Nepal eastwards. Assam. Silhet. 

 Cachar. Maimansingh. Lower Burma. Bumpa hills, Northern Circars. Western 

 coast, ascending to 5,000 ft. on the Ghats. — Ceylon. A shrub or small tree, branchlets, 

 petioles, and inflorescence clothed with hairs of two kinds (minute and long stinging), 

 1. ovate or elliptic, crenulate in the upper part or nearly entire, blade 6-14, pet. 1-4 in. 

 long, with a few long hairs, otherwise glabrous, round raised cystolith cells prominent 

 on both surfaces. Fl. minute, green, dioecious, in axillary panicled cymes, longer than 

 petioles, £ : perianth deeply 4-iid. Achenes oblique, £ in. diam., seated on the cup- 

 shaped perianth and crowned by the style. The sting of this Nettle is very bad and 

 the effects last for many days. 



1. BCEHMERIA, Jacq. : Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 575. 



Shrubs or small trees, a few herbs, 1. opposite and alternate, 3-nerved, 

 toothed, stipules usually free. Fl. in unisexual sessile clusters. $ : perianth 

 3-5-partite. valvate, pistillode clavate or globose. ? : perianth tubular, 2-4- 

 toothed, including the ovary, stigma filiform, long-exserted, persistent. 



A. Fl. clusters axillary or from the axils of fallen 1. 



