foliis floralibus ad ejus ramificationum bases duobus oppositis parvis sursum decrescentibus
deciduis, involucri glandulis orbicularibus disciformibus concaviusculis pi’ocessu luteo orbicular!
cavnosulo duplo majore suffultis, processubus inter se æqualibus, capsulis glabris lævibus,
seminibus subgloboso-tetragonis leviter rugulosis carúncula arillata destitutis ángulo
unico sulciformi.
H ab . Peninsula of C hina; Rev. G. H. VacheU, n. 240.
O r d . L X X I I I . U R T IC E Æ . Juss.
1. V xú ca M iUettii ; berbacea, dioica? foliis alternis longe petiolatis subcordato-ovatis acuminatis
dentato-serratis supra piloso-scabriusculis subtus pubescenti-scabris, capitulis florum
masc. axillaribus pedunculatis, pedunculis petiolo duplo brevioribus.
We have seen but one specimen, and that very imperfect ; it was sent by Mr. Millett.
1. Boehmeria? nivea.—Urtic a nivea. L in n .—Spreng. Syst. Veg. 3. p. 843. Lour. Fl. Coch.
2. p . 683.—U. tenacissima. Roxb. Fl. In d . 3. p . 590.
The female perianth is urceolate as in Boehmeria, not 2-valved as in Urtica. Roxburgh hesitates about
his plant being the same as U. nivea, from Loureiro’s erroneous description of the female flower, “ germen
filamentis multis sterilibus circumdatum but Loureiro must have taken either the hairs on the ovary, or
the styles of the other flowers,for “ sterile filaments.” The style is simple, with one, not two stigmas, as
Loureiro says.
2. BoComeña aliénala. Willd.Sp. 4 .p .3 4 \ B. Cochinchinensis. Spr.—Urtic a alienata.
Roxb. Fl. Ind. 3. p . 582. {an L i n n . .?)— Parie taria Cochinchinensis. Lour. Fi. Coch. 2. p.
804.— P . Zeylanica. L .— H e rb a memoria. Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6. t. \ 2 . f . 2 ?
WiUdenow describes this as an herbaceous perennial, and Sprengel, we know not for what reason, inserts
the Ceylon plant among the shrubby species. Linnæus mentions it as herbaceous, but does not speak of its
duration: Roxburgh finds it annual. We have not seen the root, but tbo stems are certainly herbaceous.
The speeimens before us, from Mr. Millett, have the leaves opposite on the primitive stem only, and alternate
on the branches, thus differing from both Loureiro’s and Roxburgh’s description, but agreeing in that
respect with Roxburgh’s U. tuberosa ; this last, however, seems to have a differently shaped female perianth.
The habit is quite that of a Parietaria, and although it and several of Roxburgh’s species of Urtica
present almost no difference in character from Boehmeria, they possibly ought to form a distinct genus, or
at least a sub-genus. One specimen before us is simple with larger leaves, and all of them opposite, exhibiting
more the habit of a small Urtica; this form agrees with Loureiro’s character, but it seems to be
merely a younger state of the other.
1. Trophis scandens; caule scandenti inerme, foliis breve petiolatis lineari-oblongis
subiter obtuse acuminatis integerrimis utrinque glabris venosis lævibus, floribus axillaribus,
masc. dense spicatis, foem. paucis intra receptacula suberosa pedunculata 1-5-na aggregatis,
fructibus oblongis.—Caturus scandens. Lour. 2. p. 751.
H a b . Canton; Mr. Millett.
D io ic a . Caulis scandens, g la b e r, b ru n n e u s, p u n c tis a lb id is adspersus. Spinoe n u llæ . Folia a lte rn a , rig id a ,
b re v ite r p e tio la ta , a n g uste o b long a, basi sub cord ata , apice s u b ite r a c um in a ta , a c um in e lo n g iu sc u lo obtuso,
u trin q u e g la b ra , ta c tu læ v ia , s u b u n d u la ta , su p ra læ viss im a , sub tus n e rv is ve n isq u e p ro tiib e ra n tib u s n o ta ta ,
margine integerriraa et ob venas ad margines attingentes subrepanda et ad speciem hie illic minute denticulata.
Petiolus lineam longus. Spicoe M a s c . solitariæ vel binæ, pedunculate, fere sesquiunciam longæ, cylin-
draceæ, lineam crassæ. Pedunculus petiolo paullo longior. Flores arcte approximati. Perianthium tri-
partitum, segmentis late ovalibus. Stamina tria; filamenta per æstivationem erecta; (antheris pendulis,)
postea plana linearia perianthio duplo longiora, transverse striata, elastica. Pistillum abortivum, cylindricuro,
gracile, breve. Receptacula Foem. parva, semine piperis migri minora nec postea succrcscentia, suberosa,
tomentosa, pedunculata, pedunculis solitariis axillaribus vel 1-5 umbellatis in ramulo axillari brevissimo
brevibus petiolum subæquantibus, flores paucos (3-5) includcutia; siÿfo brevi; duobus longis
filiformibus exsertis. Perianthium utriculatum, glabrum, ovarium omnino tegens, apice perforatum et per
ostiolum stylum protrudens, postea cum fructu auctum, crustaceum et pro pericarpio facile habitum. Ovarium
uniloculare, uni-ovulatum. Ovulum suspensum. Fructus oblongus, crustaceus, unilocularis, monosperraus.
Semen suspensum. Albumen parcum, g.elatinosum, forsitan in semine revere maturo nullum. Embryo
curvatus : cotyledones conduplicati, inæquales, subchrysaloidei : radicula supera.
This species approaches most to T . spinosa, Willd. (not Roxburgh,) or Ba tis spinosa, Roxb., but in that
there are four stamens, thorns on the branches, roundish capituli of male flowers, and, from the receptacle of
the female flowers enlarging and becoming fleshy, the fruit appears to remain enclosed, and never to be exserted.
There can be no doubt but all the species of Trophis have a true monophyllous perianth enclosing ,
the ovary, similar to what we have recognized.—Wc shall here add the following abridged synopsis of all the
species which have been hitherto described :—
§ 1. Flores foeminei spicati, nudi.
1. T. Americana. Linn.
ÿ 2. Flores foeminei glomerati, intra receptaculum globosum inclusi.
2. T. scandens; triandra inermis, fl. masc. spicatis.
3. T. fruticosa; spinosa, foliis oblongis acuminatis.— Wall. L is t o f E . I. Plants, n. 4643 f—Batis fruticosa.
Boxb. Fl. Ind. 3. p . 763.
4. T. spinosa; tetrandra spinosa, foliis oblongis, fl. masc. capitatis.—T. spinosa. Willd.—T. aculeata.
JíoíA?—Batis spinosa. Roxb. Fl. Ind. 3. p. 762.
$ 3. Flores foem, solitarii, receptáculo 4¡~Q-phyllo impositi.
5. T. taxiformis; spinosa, folüs lævibus, reeeptaculi foliolis fructu duplo longioribus. Spr. Syst. 3. p.
902.—T. taxioides. Heyne in Roth, Nov. Sp. p . 368.—T. spinosa. Roxb. Fl. Ind. 3. p . 762.
H a b . in jugis montium Circarensium.
6. T.aspera; inermis, folüs scabris, reeeptaculi foliolis fructum subæquantibus.—Roxb. Fl. Ind. 3 .p . 761.
Wight in Hooh. Bot. Jounu \ .p . 63. t. 121.—Streblus asper. Lour. Fl. Coch. 2. p . 754.
T . laurifoUa of Willdeoow constitutes two species of Styloceras, S. Kunthianum, Adr. de Juss., and S.
laurifolium, Kunth, and forms a genus among the Euphorbiaceoe. Perhaps T . aculeata, Roth, may belong
to the Flacourtianeoe. We do not know T .? Heyneana, Wall. List of E. I. Plants, n. 4642. T. cordata,
Poir., or Streblus cordatas, Lour,, from Canton, is certainly not of this genus, but rather a Brous-
sonetia.
I. Celtis orientalis. L in n .— Roxb. Fl. hid. 2. p . 65.—C. Amboinensis. Wall. L i s t o f E .
I . Plants, n. 3690. (an Vent. ?)
The equality or inequality of the base of the leaf, affords, we believe, no character, both kinds sometimes
appearing on the same branch. We have three forms before us from China; one in which the leaves arc
whitish on the underside, at least when young, and their length about thrice the breadth; a second has the