428 URTICACER. [ Morocarpus. 
anth and epicarp and the inner nut-like endocarp. Albumen 
copious. Cotyledons small, almost roundish, of nearly the same 
length as the contd radicle-—Shrubs or trees, with alternate ser- 
rate leaves white- or grey-tomentose beneath. Stipules axillary, 2- 
cleft. Flowers subtended by scarious bracts, sessile, the males in 
pee clusters, the females in — solitary and peduncled, or — 
forming simple dichotomous cym 
—- pubescent or tomentose; leaves lanceolate to oblong- 
eola’ . M. longifolius. 
Stine robust and smooth ; ‘leaves ovate to broadly ovate . M. Wallichianus. 
. M. longifolius, a, Bedd. Sylv. Madr., i $, 26; ft 
(Debvevecri leugifolia, W edd. ; ; Brand. For. F1., —Pw ot-chaue 
pen.—An evergreen (?) tree ds 96-4 Qa 1-14). the branchlets 
tomentose or pubescent; leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, on a 
pubescent petiole 3-3 in. long, obtuse or rounded at the base, 3-5 
in. long, acuminate, serrate, membra anous, above rough and sparingly 
sprinkled with long white hairs, beneath covered with a white 
or grey thin tomentum, 3-nerved and elegantly transversely yeti 
flowers minute, sessile, in heads or clusters, arranged in short, 
dichotomous, puberulous cymes, solitary or by 2 in the axils of the 
leaves or above the scars of the fallen ones, and usually as long or 
shorter than the petiole. 
i Var. 1, longifolius proper: leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceo- — 
ate 
Var. 2, latifolia: leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, on a 1-3 in. 
long petio ole, 
Has.—Pegu, in deserted toungyas; Ava hills; var. 2: in Chittagong. 
Remarxs.—The liber of this, and also of the following species, furnishes 
cordage, 
2. M. Wallichianus, Miq.—a tree (25—35 + 10—15 + 24—9), 
leafless in C.S. , the taken glabrous and pruinous, Me sparingly 
and inconspicuously pubescent; leaves ample, ovate t o broadly 
ovate, on a slender sometimes sparingly pubescent ee 2-6 in. 
long, shortly acuminate, rounded or almost truncate at the base, 
sinuate-serrate, 5-8 in. long, chartaceous, glabrous above, beneath 
densely and Ee ay ian or velvety, 3 3-nerved at the — 
Has.—Rare in the moister up ah, at 1000 
aetna ae 
