422 URTICACER. | Laportea. 
perianth minutely stinging-bristly outside, 4-cleft; achenes une- 
qually ovate, compressed, nearly 2 lin. long, terminated by the 
reflexed linear stigma. 
‘ Beene forests of Pegu and Tenasserim; also Chittagong.—Fl. 
eb. 
Stop cerueaecns Jacq. 
se, 
the ovary, enclosed in the marcescent perianth and often cohering 
with it; pericarp crustaceous and thin, ornut-like. Albumen never 
absent, but in various quantities. — elliptical, often longer 
a the conical radicle.—Shrubs or small trees, rarely undershrubs, 
opposite or alternating Ssciee leaves pee toothed. 
Stipules axillary, deciduous, usually free, very rarely connate. 
Flowers minute, in small clusters, supported by short scarious bracts 
and forming larger clusters, spikes or eymose panicles in the 
of the leaves. 
‘gehen in sessile heads oF ee axillary or above 
the scars of we fallen 
\| eaves 1 glabrous above . 
HHI a sparingly hair above. 
Leaves cordate-ovate ; flower-b Ae large, scarious, 
brown ; toothed with a solitary: pried and style if Helfers. 
As former, but one with usually 2 ovaries and styles : didymogy ied 
Leaves usually ovate to ee ceolate ; ficwreh Siretg minute ; 
perianth 2-4-toothed } . B. diffusa. 
Kurs Flower-heads globular, sessi ile, formin rming more or 
der often interrupted spikes in the axils 
of oyt ig leaves, the spikes sometimes colle mg 
png, shemt leafless shoots in a racem 
. B. Malabarica. 
pani 
sg Par se Pustalate-ragate above, the pustules terminated 
perforated glan . B. macrophylla. 
sig brosdli ovate, pose n rugate, without glands, more oF 
Jess hairy on both sides, coarsely serrate . B. caudata. 
All parts, tho the leaves, quite glabrous, minutely serrate or 
entire, usually 2-glanded at the base of the midrib . B. Hamiltomana 
1. B. Malabarica, Wedd.—Monoecious, very variable as 1? 
size, a much branched shrub only 2-4 ft. high, cero localities 
growing up into a large shrub or shrubby treelet of 12-20 ft, 
