466 URTICACER. - | Mataisia. 
MALAISIA, Lour. 
Flowers dioecious, the males in one-sided dense spikes, the 
females packed on globular receptacles. Males: perianth 3- or 4 
cleft, the segments almost valvate in bud. Stamens as many 4s 
perianth- ents and opposite t 
filaments filiform, elastically reflexed with opening of the flower. 
Females: perianth urceolate, with an opening at the apex. Ovary 
sessile, enclosed, with a solitary pendulous ovule ; style short, the 2 
stigmas elongate. Achenes berry-like, enveloped by the enlarged 
perianth. Albumen none. Embryo with fleshy cotyledons, the 
radicle superior.— Unarmed scandent shrubs, with entire or toothed 
leaves. Male receptacles elongate, bearing the flowers only on the 
upper side, beneath naked, shortly peduncled and usually several 
together, forming a cluster (reduced raceme) or rarely solitary 
or by pairs in the axils of the leaves; female spikes more or less 
globular, peduncled, arising singly from axillary shoots and appear 
ing as if racemose 
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minutely and sparingly pubescent; leaves elliptically- to ovate- 
rounded or almost cordate at the base, acuminate, 4-5 in. long, thin- 
chartaceous, more or less repand-toothed, glabrous or minutely 
Hazs.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of the eastern a of the 
Pegu Yomah and from Martaban down to ‘Tenasserim.—Fl. Feb.-Marchy #% 
Apr.-May.—s : 1—SS.=SiS. Metam., ete. 
-BROUSSONETIA, Vent. 
3 Flowers dioecious, the males in dense, bracted, elongate spikes : 
the females in globular heads. Males: perianth 4-parted, a 
‘segments valvate in bud. Stamens 4, opposite to the perianth- 
segments ; filaments long and exserted. Females intermixed with 
