1486 CXIX. UETICACE^. [Boehmena. 



subulate, deciduous. Panicles shorter than the petiole, sessile ; upper flowers 

 female. Styles exserted, hairy. Fruit oblong compressed hairy. Urtica 

 tenacissima, Eoxb. Wight lo. t. 688. 



Hab.: A native of the Malay Islands, ^China and Japan, and to all apgearanee indigenous 

 in the scrubs of the Johnstone Kiver. 



2. B. platyphylla (broad-leaved), Don ; Hook, in Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 578. A 

 soft-wooded shrub of 5 or 6ft., more or less clothed with short hairs. Leaves 

 opposite, ovate-lanceolate or cordate-ovate, acute, 6 to Sin. long, 3-nerved, 

 serrated, on slender petioles 2 to 4in. long. Spikes axillary, filiform, interrupted, 

 4 to Tin. long. Flowers, male clusters 6 to 8-flowered, female 10 to 12 or more ; 

 male perianth of 4 2-toothed segments, stamens 4 with a rudimentary ovary ; 

 female perianth tubular, ventricose, contracted, 4-toothed at the apex enclosing 

 the ovary ; style long, filiform, stigma simple, acute, villous. Seeds oval, erect, 

 enclosed in the perianth ; exalbuminous radicle superior. — B. macrostachya, E. 

 Wight. Bail, in 2nd Suppl. Syn. Ql. Fl. 55. Splitgerbera macrostachya, Wight 

 Ic. t. 1977. 



Hab.: Goamba Creek, Tambourine Mountain. 



15. POUZOLZIA, Gaudich. 



(Memorialis, Ham.; Gonostegia, Turcz.; Hyrtan'andra, Miq.) 

 Flowers monoecious or rarely dioecious, in sessile usually androgynous clusters, 

 with small scarious bracts. Male perianth of 4 or 5 lobes or segments, valvate in 

 the bud. Stamens 3, 4 or 5, with a club-shaped or obovoid rudimentary 

 pistil. Female perianth usually ovate, contracted at the orifice with a 2 or 

 4-toothed border, often enlarged in fruit and sometimes winged but not succulent. 

 Nut enclosed in the persistent perianth, the linear filiform style deciduous. — 

 Herbs undershrubs or shrubs. Leaves alternate or the lower ones or rarely all 

 opposite, entire or very rarely toothed. Stipules free, usually persistent. Flower 

 clusters axillary, solitary or in interrupted spikes. 



The genus is spread over the tropical regions of both the New and the Old World. The 

 Australian species are both of them East Indian and represent the two sections into which 

 the genus has been divided. 



Sect. 1. Pouzolzia.— il/aZe perimithsegments concave at the top, hut rounded and obtuse 

 on the back. 



Stems diffuse. Leaves all alternate 1. P. indica. 



Sect. 2. BZemorialiS. — Male perianth-segments abruptly bent in near the top, with an 

 acute transverse dorsal angle. 



Stems elongated. Lower leaves opposite 2. P. quinquenervis. 



1. P. indica (Indian), Gaudich. ; Wedd. Monocp-. Urt. 398, t. 18, and in DC. 

 Prod. xvi. i. 220, var. tetraptera subvar. pentandra, Wedd. ; Benth. Fl, Austr. vi. 

 186. A diffuse perennial with the habit of a Parietaria, more or less pubescent 

 or hirsute, the stems usually from 6in. to 1ft. long. Leaves alternate or the 

 lower ones rarely opposite, shortly petiolate, ovate, acute, entire, sometimes all 

 under |in., rarely nearly lin. long, 3-nerved, with the lateral nerves undivided. 

 Flowers few in the clusters, the males and females mixed. Perianths hispid, the 

 males usually, of 5 segments. Fruiting female perianth about ^ line long, some- 

 times ovoid and equally 8 or 10-ribbed, but others in the same axils with 4 of the 

 ribs produced inio broad wings. Nuts black and shining. — P. arnhemica, F. v. M. 

 Fragm. iv. 87. 



Hab.: Bookingham Bay, Dallachy. 



The species is common in East India and the Archipelago, with the male flowers usually 

 4-iuerous. 



■ 2. P. quinquenervis (5-nerved), Benn.Pl. Jav. Ear. 66; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 vi. 187. A perennial with ascending or erect stems (of 2ft or more ?) scarcely 

 branched except at the base, quite glabrous or the angles of the stems and 



