616 C. MORAOEiE IPlnjUoclilamys 



Ceyloiij dry region. Malay Peniiis. and Arcliip. A small gnarled glabrous evergreen 

 tree, armed with spinescent brancUets and straight sharp, woody spines, 1. membranous^ 

 lanceolate or rhomboid-oblanceolate irregularly serrate, 1-4 in. long, pet. very short. 

 Fl. dicecious, S in clustered nearly sessile involucrate heads, ? solitary, perianth of 4 

 lanceolate sepals, much enlarged in fr., longer than the ^yellow cup-shaped pericarp, 

 from which the seed, enclosed irL a thin endocarp, protrudes in a way similar to the 

 seed of Taxus. 



TaxotropMs zeylanica, Thwaltes ; Bedd. Man. t. 26, fig. 3 (10-16).— Syn. Epicarjmrus 

 seylanica, Thw. ; "Wight Ic. t. 1962 (the lower left-hand figure); Btrebhi^ seyJanica^ 

 Ktirz. Western Duars, in places forming thickets at the foot of the hills. Upper 

 Burma. — Ceylon. A large rigid shrub, sometiuies armed with axillary spines, 1. 

 alternate, penninerved, membranous, serrate. Fl. dioecious, fr. obliquely su-bglobose^ 

 subtended by sepals, crowned by the lateral 2-X3artite style. 



Order 01. URTICACEiE, Engler in Engl. n. Prantl iii. 1. 98. 



(Urticacece, tribe VII. Urtlcece. Gen. PL iii. 348.) 



Mostly herbs, in a few genera shrubs and trees, sap watery L. as a rule 

 dentate, alternate stipulate, with 3 basal nerves. PL unisexual, sessile, as a 

 rule in compact heads or clusters, stamens 4-5, opposite to sepals or perianth- 

 segments, filaments infiexed in bud ; ? perianth campanulate, ovoid or tubular^ 

 free not confluent, often succulent in fr., rarely 0. Ovule erect, orthotropous. 



Bast-fibres strongly developed in the bark, often very long. Cystolith cells con- 

 spicuous in the epidermis. No laticiferous tubes. Stinging hairs in some genera. 



I. Branchlets, petioles and inflorescence armed with 



stinging hairs Laportea {-p. 616). 



II. No stinging hairs. 



A. ? perianth tubular, ovoid or campanulate. 



Fruiting heads dry. 

 Stigma filiform, perbi'^tent . . .1. B(ehmbria, 

 Stigma filiform, deciduous . . . 'PovzohziA (p. 617). 

 Fruiting heads succulent. 

 Style long-exsertod, curved . . . Pipturus (p. 617). 

 Stigma sessile, ciliate or pedunculate. 

 Perianth obliquely campanulate . . Sarcooiilamis (p. 618). 

 Perianth ovoid, mouth minute. 



L. white or grey beneath, tertiary n. 



parallel, prominent . . .2, DLBKE(j,KAfeiA. 

 L. green beneath, tertiary n. not 



prominent 8. Villebrlnea. 



B. 9 perianth Maoutia (p. 619). 



laportea crenulata, Gaud. ; Bedd. PL Sylv. t. 806. — Syn, Urtica erenidafa, Eoxb, ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 686. Vern. Chorpatta^ Beng. ; Otfa-p'ilavu, Tarn.; Ana-diorbja^ Mai. j 

 Pef-ija-gili^ Bxirm. Subhimalayan tract from Nepal eastwards. Assam. Silhet. 

 Cacliar. Maimansingh. Lower Burma. Ptumpa hills, Northern Circars. "Western 

 coast, ascending to 5,000 ft. on the Ghats. — Ceylon. A shrub or small tree, branchletSy 

 petioles, and inflorescence clothed with hairs of two kinds (minute and long stinging), 

 i ovate or elliptic, crenulate in the upper ]jart or nearly- entire, blade 6-14, i^et. 1-4 in. 

 long, with a few long hairs, otherwise glabrous, round raised cybtolith cells prominent 

 on both surfaces. Fl. minute, green, di(jecious, in axillary jjanicled cymes, longer than 

 petioles, $ : perianth deeply 4-ild. Achenes oblique, -J in. diam., seated on the cup- 

 shaped perianth and crowned by the style. The sting of this Nettle is vei-y bad and 

 the effects last for many days. 



1. BCE'HMERIA, Jacq. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 575. 



Sbnibs or small ti-ees^ a few lierbrt, L opposite and alternate^ S-nex-vedy 

 tootliedy stipules usually free. FL in unisexual sessile clusters. $ : perianth 

 3~5-partite» valvate, pistillode clavate or globose. ? : perianth tubular, 2-4- 

 tootlied, including the oyary, stigma filifoi^m, long-exserted, persistent. 



A. M. clusters axillary or from tlie axils of fallen 1. 



