426 URTICACER. : | Poueolzia, 
Var. 2, tomentosa, Wedd.: leaves very rough above, softly 
pubescent-tomentose beneath. 
Has.—Var. 1: in Chittagong. 
SARCOCHLAMYS, Gaud. 
Flowers dioecious. Males: perianth 5-parted, the segments 
ovate, blunt, imbricate inthe bud. Stamens 5. Ovary rudiment- 
emales: perianth shortly and unequally 4-lobed, when fully 
opened bell-shaped, the tube becoming afterwards gibbose and (along 
with the somewhat conniving lobes) lateral. Ovary broadly ellipti- 
cal, oblique, stalked, enclosed in the perianth, with a solitary almost 
erect ovule; stigma sessile, penicillate-capitate, persistent. No — 
rudiments of stamens. Achenes conform with the ovary, smooth, 
loosely enclosed in the enlarged fleshy perianth.—Shrubs or small 
trees, with alternate, 3-nerved, serrulate leaves. Stipules connate, 
2-cleft. Flowers small, subtended by short-toothed bractlets, 
clustered, the male clusters in lax, the female ones in close simply 
branched spikes, solitary or by 2 in the axils of the leaves. 
1. S. pulcherrima, Gaud.—Sap-sha-pen.—An evergreen tree 
(20—25+8—10+4 4—1), with a terete brownish stem and a divari- 
cate crown, often branched already from the very base and henee 
thin, white tomentum, 3-nerved and elegantly transversely and 
quadrately net-veined ; flowers small, sessile, glabrous, in small 
clusters, forming cyme-like, branched, pubescent spikes in the axils 
of the leaves, as long as the petiole or a little longer. 
: rom geese ete ver along choungs as well in the upper mixed = in the 
ropical fores m Chi ng, Pegu, and Martaban d to Upper Tenasse- — 
rim.— Fl. Fr. R.S.—s.— ae Motels Ee oe 
RemarKs.—Wood pale reddish-brown, rather light, of a fine silvery fibre, 
soft. Liber a good fibre for cordage. eigen eaD en 
OREOCNIDE, Mig. 5 
Flowers dioecious. Males: perianth 4-parted, the segments 
ovate, acute, valvate in the bud. Stamens 4. Ovary rudimentary: — 
Females: perianth tubular, ventricose, adnate to the ovary, Wi? 
a very small 4- or 5-toothed limb. Ovary with a solitary erect 
ovale 5 stigma nearly discoid, almost peltate, long-papillose-ciliate- 
Fruiting perianth ventricose, obsoletely angular-furrowed, somew2#”” 
