548 CXXXVI. URTICACE&. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Urtica, 
U. pilulifera, Linn., the Roman nettle, a common European weed, occurs occa- 
sionally near Simla and elsewhere near houses in the hills. 
1. U. hyperborea, Jacquem. mss. in Wedd. Monogr. 68; DC. Prodr. 
xvi. i. 45; a low tufted undershrub pubescent between the small stinging 
hairs, leaves subsessile broadly coarsely toothed or ovate-cordate serrate, 
stipules in opposite intrapetiolar pairs, cymes small androgynous, inner 
fruiting sepals not armed hispid larger than the achene. 
WESTERN TIBET, alt. 12-17,500 ft., Jacquemont, Falconer, &c. EASTERN TIBET, 
north of Sikkim, alt. 16—17,000 ft., J. D. H. . 
Roots stout, woody; stems stout, ascending, densely tufted, 6-18 in., woody 
below. Leaves 1-2 in., glandular-puberulous beneath. Cymes very short, crowded. 
2. U. parviflora, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 581; herbaceous, slender, 
monecious, glabrous or pubescent, stinging hairs copious stiff, leaves ovate 
or ovate-cordate or -lanceolate acuminate doubly crenate or serrate, stipules 
connate, cymes slender effuse axillary and forming an erect termina 
pyramidal panicle, inner fruiting sepals rounded twice as long as the outer. 
Wedd. Monogr. 85; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 55; Wight Ic. t. 690. U. ardens, 
Link. Enum. ii. 385. U. himalayensis, Kunth & Bouché in Ann. Sc. Nat. 
Ser.-3, vii. 182. U. virulenta, Wall. Cat. 4586. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 5-12,000 ft., from "Kashmir:to Mishmi. NILGHIRI 
HiLrs, at Ootacamund, Foulkes. led 
Root perennial; stem 3-5 ft., slender, sparingly branched, obtusely angíec. 
Leaves 1-4 in., membranous, wrinkled ; petiole 1-2 in. ; stipules ovate-oblong, 
entire, puberulous. Cymes shortly peduncled, lower males more simple; male an 
fruiting sepals hispid, 
_ 3. U. dioica, Linn. Sp. Pl. 984; herbaceous, monoecious OF 
dicecious, pubescent, stinging hairs copious, leaves ovate-cordate oblong oF 
lanceolate serrate, stipules usually free, cymes unisexual rarely androgy pone 
inner fruiting sepals longer than the outer. Wedd. Monogr. 77 ; DC. Proar: 
xvi. 1. 50; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 654; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 1146. 
. N.W. HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir and the Salt Range to Simla, alt. 8-10,700 ft. 
WESTERN TIBET, alt. 8-12,000 ft.— DisrRiB. Westward to the Atlantic. 
one . ish 
x Habit ot U. parviflora, but differing in the free stipules. —The common Englis 
Nett e, 
26, FLEURYA, Gaud. 
Annual herbs, with stinging hairs. Leaves alternate, toothed, 3-nerved; 
stipules connate in opposite pairs, or 0. Flowers mono- or dicecio” ; 
clustered, clusters in solitary axillary cymes or spikes, unisexual or androg? 
nous. MALE FL. Sepals 4-5, ovate-lanceolate, subvalvate or imbricate. 
Stamens 4-5, inflexed in bud. Pistillode globose or clavate. al 
Perianth cupular, 4-lobed, or sepals 4, imbricate, equal or very ely 
posticous hooded, anticous minute or 0. Ovary oblique ; style ob 
ovoid or linear, at length hooked, with sometimes 2 basal arms; arly 
erect. Achene oblique, compressed, exserted, membranous. See ran. 
exalbuminous, cotyledons broad.—Species 8, Tropical, and South Afr - 
Dr. King has sent me (from Herb. Hort. Caleutt.), as Pilea umbrosa, what | 
think, a species of Flewrya with tomentose branches, leaves and cymes ; it 18 
Sikkim, in male fi. only. 
F. interrupta, Gaud. in Freyc. Voy. Bot. 497, t. 83; sung s er 
scattered, leaves ovate acuminate crenate or serrate base subcorda 
