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clotheJ beneath with the same ; male and female flowers in distinct, 

 glomerate peduncled spikes. Common on the slopes of the Ghauts. 

 A formidable plant ; the least touch of any part produces most 

 acute pain. The bark of this, as of many other of the order, 

 makes good flax. Syn. Urtica^ heterophylla, Willd. iv, 362 ; 

 Gerardina lescbenaultiana, DeCaisne, Wight Ic. 1976. 



3. SPLITGERBERA, Miquel. 



1 . S ScABEELLA. — Shrubby, spreading ; leaves large, opposite, 

 cordate, spreading, serrate harsh, 3-nerved ; spikes axillary, erect, 

 cylindric ; male flowers crowded, short and in the lower axils ; 

 female above and generally solitary. Syn. Urtica scabrella, Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. iii, p 581 ; Wight Ic. 691. Common in the hilly jungles 

 of the Concan ; Meera Hills. 



4. ELATOSTEMMA, Forster. 



1. E Oppositifolium, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, p 179. — 

 Herbaceous, about 1 foot high; stem simple, smooth, naked at 

 the base ; leaves rather long-petioled, opposite, lanceolate-acumi- 

 nate, coarsely dentate-serrate, 3-nerved, sparingly hairy above, 

 quite smooth beneath ; upper ones the largest; heads of' flowers 

 solitary peduncled, in the alternate axils; peduncles shorter than 

 the petiole ; common receptacle flat, discoid, simple ; male and 

 female flowers mixed. The Ghauts ; flowers in September. 



2. E Cdneatum, Wight Ic. 2091. — Erect, simple; leaves 

 obovate cuneate, unequal-sided, crenately serrated towards the 

 apex, pilose on both sides, above mixed with scattered, bristly 

 hairs ; receptacles sessile, unisexual ; fertile flowers few, sessile, 

 mixed with numerous, pedicelled, 3 fo ' 4-lobed sterile ones ; nuts 

 oval-ribbed. On old - walls, Mahim woods ; Bombay ; also at 

 Belgaum. 



5. CONOCEPHALUS, Blume. 



,../ 1, t.Q NivEus, Wight Ic. No. 1959. — Arboreous, erect-branch- 

 ed ; 'leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 5-nerved, acutely 

 serrated, somewhat buUate above, prominently reticiilate and white 

 beneath, strigosely hispid on both sides ; inflorescence axillary 

 cymose ; fruit capitate, drupaceous ; drupes small, yellow, globose. 

 Bcehmeria ramiflora, Spr. (?). Native name " Capsee." Com- 

 mon in the Concan and Ghaut jungles. 



2. C Concol6r, Dalz. — Shrubby; leaves very large (1 foot), 

 irregularly scattered, 3-nerved, perfectly smooth, oblong-ovate, 

 acute, green on both sides ; female flower axillary. At the 

 Phoonda Ghaut. 



