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(1) D. Indioa. {B. W.) 



Ident, Wight Icon. pi. Ind. and t. 1882. Dec. prod. XV. 

 s. 2. p. 1241; 



Spec. Chae. Scandent shrub : leaflets 3, distinctly petiolulate, 

 ovate or obliquely lanceolate-ovate, acuminate, serrated, sparingly 

 pubescent above, softly pnberulous beneath : leaflets of the invo- 

 lucre 3-cleft and lobed, 5-nerved, serrate-denticulate : stipules and 

 bracts linear-lanceolate, female bracts acute, 3-lobed : segments of 

 the female calyx about 11, pinnately cut, smaller divisions on both 

 sides about 10, subulate : ovary pubescent : styline column 

 slender, equally urceolar-dilated at the apex. 



Dindegul mountains. 



(2) D. scANDENS. (^Muller.) 



Far. Veiittina. 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 1244. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1881. 



Spec. Chae. Scandent : leaves velvety beneath, sharply ser- 

 rulate : involucres' serrate-denticulate : segments of the female 

 calyx very hispid : stipules and bracts of the involucre ovate or 

 Hnear-lanceolate : female bracts entire : ovary tomentose : styline 

 column cylindric, subtrUobulate at the apex, pubescent beneath : 

 capsules middle-sized. 



Neilgherries. 



ORDER CXLII. URTICACE^. 



Flowers polygamouSj monoecious or dioecious, spiked, capi- 

 tate or panicled, sometimes placed on a fleshy receptacle, 

 usually surrounded by a common involucre, bracteolate or 

 naked : male perianth 4 — 5-parted, imbricated in aestivation : 

 stamens equal in number to and opposite the sepals : fila- 

 ments free, filiform or subulate, inflexed in sestivation, elas- 

 tically leaping up when in flower, more or less irritable : 

 anthers introrse, 2-celled, attached by the back, cells oppo- 

 site, contiguous, sometimes separated at the base and apex, 

 dehiscing lengthways : rudimentary ovary sessile or stalked : 

 female perianth 2 — 4-leaved, leaflets usually unequal or 

 rudimentary, limb 2 — 4-toothed or parted : stamens nQne 



