Procris .] cxxix. urticace.®. 3*>5 
2000 ft. altitude. Penang Hill (Porter, Curtis). Distrib. Java, 
Borneo, Philippines. 
(2) P. latifolia Bl. Bijdr. 508, 
Succulent shrub about 2 ft. tall; stem stout. Leaves fleshy 
oblong cuspidate, base acuminate slightly unequal, edge entne, 
nerves conspicuous, elevate when dry, 5 t° 10 P a ^ rs > 7 i n - 
3 in. wide; petioles 75 in. long. Male flowers white in a lax 
slender cyme 1*5 in long; (peduncle about half the length). Female 
heads sessile, *4 in. across. Hab. On rocks in woods, Pahang, 
Telom; Kota Glanggi. Selangor, Ulu Selangor (Goodenough); 
Batu Caves; Ginting Bidai; Dusun Tua. Perak, Lenggong; 
Bujong Malacca; Thaiping Hills. Distrib. Nicobars, Chnstmas 
Isle, Java, Timor, Aru, Samoa. 
23 . BCEHMERIA, Jacq. 
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite or alternate, 3-nerved, 
toothed. Flowers in unisexual axillary spikes or racemes of clusters. 
Male flowers 3- to 5-lobed, Stamens 3 to 5 inflexed. Pistillode 
globose. Female tubular, 2- to 4-toothed. Achene included in 
perianth. Species about 50, Eastern Asia. 
The Ramie, B. nivea, Hook and Arn., has long been cultivated 
in the Malay Peninsula, at least since 1845 (Griffith), its ovate, thin, 
rough-toothed leaves white beneath, var. candicans, or green 
beneath, var. tenacissima, and panicles of small clusters of flowers 
make it easily recognisable. 
Flowers clustered on leafy branches . . . • (/) B. sideefolia 
Flowers in clusters in short spikes . . • ( 2 ) B. lanceolata 
(1) B. sidsefolia Wedd. Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, i. 203; Hook. fit. 
F.B.I v. 576. . 
Slender diffuse undershrub. Leaves opposite and alternate 
elliptic or ovate-lanceolate caudate acuminate serrate, hairy on both 
sides, 3 to 5 in. long, 175 in. across or more; petioles 1 in. long. 
Flower clusters sessile on leafy branches, very numerous. Hab. 
Pahang, Telom. Distrib. India, Java. 
(2) B. lanceolata Ridl. Jonrn. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 57 * P- 94 - 
Shrub; stems covered with white appressed hairs. Leaves 
opposite, 'lanceolate acute, base truncate, edge serrate, glabrous 
pustular above; nerves hairy beneath, 3 from base elevate, nervules 
transverse; 6 in. long, 175 in. wide or less; petioles 1 in. long. 
Spikes simple 1 or 2 axillary, white hairy. Flowers in clusters *12 in. 
across distant. Bracts lanceolate acuminate, those of clusters ovate 
cuspidate. Males minute, 5-lobed. Females sessile, hairy urceolate. 
Hab. Rare, Perak, Temengoh on sandy islets in the River Kertai. 
24 . POUZOLZIA, Gaud. 
Herbs or small shrubs. Leaves opposite or alternate. Flower- 
heads small axillary, sessile. Stamens 4 or 5; style slender decid- 
