Jntiaris.] 



81. URTICACEiE. 



333 



Yellapur. Fl. Sept.-Oct. Fr. C. S. An immense evergreen tree. Bark 

 dark-coloured, Lard, smooth. Wood grey, soft, light. Annual rings visible. 

 Pores moderate-sized, often in groups and joined by light coloured tissue. 

 Medullary rays moderately broad, uniform, prominent. Weighs 28 lbs, 

 to the cub. ft. Inner bark yields a good fibre for cordage, also made into 

 sacks. Stem yields a white poisonous resin. Fi nit globose, '75 in. diam., 

 shortly peduncled, purple, tomentose, fleshy with a large globose pendu- 

 lous seed ; testa crustaceous; cotyledons thick, hemispheric, white, hard; 

 embryo minute. 



11. CONOCEPHALUS, Blume. 



Climbing shrubs, often very large. Leaves alternate, simple, 

 penninerved sometimes 3-nerved ; stipules connate. Flov^ers dioecious 

 in axillary, cymose heads. Male fl. Perianth tubular, 4-lobed, 

 valvate. Stamens 2-4, erect. Pistillode small. Female fl. Perianth 

 oblong or clavate, 4-lobed. Ovary included ; style undivided ; ovule 

 erect. Achene included. Seed erect, testa membranous, albumen scanty 

 or not j embryo straight, cotyledons fleshy or thin, equal, radicle short. 



C. concolor, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 239; Fl. Br. I. 6. 546. 



Konkan at the Phoonda ghat. Dalz. This may not be a Gonoceplia" 

 lus. It is given as a doubtful species in the Fl. Br. I. Dalzell does not 

 say it is a climber. I have not yet met with this plant. 



12. LAPORTEA, Gaud. 



Shrubs or trees with stinging hairs. Leaves alternate, entire or 

 toothed ; 3 or penninerved stipules opposite, free or connate. Flowers 

 monoecious or dioecious, in axillary panicles, flowers and fruit often 

 reflexed. Male fl. Sepals 4-5. Stamens 4-5, inflexed in bud. Pistil- 

 ode clavate. Female fl. Sepals 4 or 0. Ovary oblique ; style linear 

 ovule erect. Achene flattened. Albumen ; cotyledons broad. 



Tropical Himalaya from Sikkim eastwards to Assam and southwards 

 to Perak. The Konkan. 



L. erenulata, Gaud, in Freyc. Yoy. Bot. 498 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 550 ; 

 Brandis For. Fl. 404 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 306. Konkan, Stocks. Does not 

 seem to have been met with in this presidency by any other collector since 

 Pr. Stock's time. 



n, BOEHMERIA, Jacq. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite and alternate, toothed, 

 3-nerved, stipules usually free. Flowers dioicous or monoicous in 

 axillary, sessile or paniclcd clusters, usually unisexual. Male fl. 

 Perianth 4-lobed, segments valvate. Stamens 4. Pistillode clavate 

 Female fl. Perianth tubular, compressed or ventricose, with a narrow, 

 2-4- toothed mouth. Ovary 1 -celled; ovule 1, erect. Akene dry. 

 Seeds albuminous, cotyledons ovate. 



