﻿1874] of the Burmese Flora, 105 



• Urena, L. 



Conspectus of species, 



* Capsules longer than the sepals, g-lochidiate and bristly tomentose, 



U. lohata. 



* * Carpels included in the calyx, smooth or net -veined. 



O Petals IJ to nearly 2 in. long, fonning a large funnel-shaped corolla. 

 Leaves almost rotundate, very scabrous on both sui-faces ; flowers forming dense leafy 

 terminal heads, ... ... ... ... ,..U, rigicla. 



Leaves underneath softly tomentose, scabrous above, the lower ones usually lobed ; 

 lowers in loose spreading terminal racemes, ... ... ,..U. speciosa. 



O O Petals about 4 lin. long, forming a rotate corolla ; involucre longer 

 than the calyx. 

 Flowers sessile or nearly so in the axils of the leaves, or along axillary short leafy 

 branchlets, ... ... ... ... ... ...U. repanda. 



1. U. LOBATA, L. sp. pi. 974 ; Roxb. Fl. Tnd. III. 182 ; Bot. Mag. t. 

 3043; Griff. Not. Dicot. 522 ; Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 329. {U. reticulata, Cav. 

 Diss. VI. 335 t. 183. f. 1. ; TI. viminea, Cav. 1. c. t. 184. f . 1 ; TT. micro- 

 carpa, DC. Prod. I. 441 ; TI. ribesia, Sm. in Rees. Cycl. 37. No. 5 ; DC. 

 1. c. ; IT. Swartzii, DC. 1. c. ; Z7. scahriuscida, DC. 1. c). 



Var. /?. siNUATA (Z7. sinuata, L. sp. pi. 974 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 182 ; 

 Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 329). 



Var. y. lanosa, leaves larger, usually with shorter lobes and less 

 scabrous, sometimes almost softly tomentose ; involucre and calyx rather 

 flaccid, densely tomentose. 



Hab. All three forms common, especially in uncultivated places, in 

 shrubberies, toungyas, etc., but also in leaf-shedding forests all over Burma 

 from Chittagong and Ava down to Tenasserim up to 3000 ft. elevation ; Var. 

 a. rarer than /8. and y. Fl. Fr. go . 



2. U. EiGiDA, Wall. Cat. 1929 ; Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 330. 



Hab. Not uncommon in the open, especially the low, forests of Pegu 

 and Martaban ; also Tenasserim, chiefly on stiff clay and laterite. Fl. Oct. 

 to Jan. 



eS. U. SPECIOSA, Wall. PI. As. rar. I. t. 26. 



Haii. Not unfrequent in the low and mixed forests all over Pegu ; 

 also Ava. Fl. Fr. C. S. 



Pavonia, Cav. 



Conspectus of species. 



Sect. 1. Lehretonia. Bracteoles 5-6. Carpels indehiscent. 



Flowers yellow ; carpels muricate, ... ... ... ...P. glechomifolia. 



Sect. 2. Eupavoniob. Bracteoles 10 or more. Carpels dehiscent. 



Flowers pink ; carpels unarmed, the margins slightly but sharply produced, P. zeylanica. 



1. P. GLECHOMIFOLIA, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. I. 51. ; Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 

 380. {Lelretonia procumhens, Wall. Cat. 1883 ; V/ight Ic. t. 4). 

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