Boehmeria. | CXXXVI. URTICACER. (J. D. Hooker.) 577 
nivea, Linn. Sp. Pl; Jacq. Hort. Vind. t. 166; Wall. Cat. 4606. U. 
tenatissima, Roxb. FI. Ind. iii. 590; Wight Ic. t. 688. U.candicans, Burm. 
" Ind. 297; Blume Bijd. 503. U. utilis, Hort.  Procris nivea, Gaud. l c. 
499. 
Cultivated in the warmer parts of INDIA, especially Assam and Bengal.—DISTRIB. 
Native of the Malay Islands, China and Japan. 
A shrub with herbaceous shoots; branches and petioles softly hairy. Leaves 
3-6 in. ; above subscabrid, beneath white with densely appressed hairs; base cuneate 
or subcordate ; teeth triangular often up-curved; petiole 14—4 in, ; stipules subulate, 
deciduous. Panicies shorter than the petiole, sessile; fem. upper. Styles exserted, 
hairy.— Weddell distinguishes as 8. candicans the form under this name, and that of 
tenacissima, by the more robust habit, larger longer petioled concolorous leaves. 
2 E. rugulosa, Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4,1. 200; Monogr. 373; 
DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 207; dicecious, leaves alternate coriaceous elliptic- 
lanceolate acuminate crenulate strongly 3-nerved, above smooth or rugulose 
glabrous, beneath pale finely velvety-pubescent, stipules connate, clusters 
in simple spikes each with a cordate bract, fem. short simple pendulous, 
fem. perianth elliptic compressed ciliate. Brand. For. Fl. 403; Blume 
Mus. Bot. ii. 212. B. nervosa, Madden in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xvii. i. 587. 
Urtica rugosula, Wall. Cat. 4597. U.venosa, Wall. Cat. 460 B. 
SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA; from Garwhal to Bhotan, alt. 2-4000 ft., Wallich, 
A small tree, branchlets robust, glabrous, petioles and leaves beneath hoary or 
yellowish white, bark wrinkled pale. Leaves 3-5 in., teeth obtuse, nerves penni- 
nervuled, nervules anastomosing; stipules ovate; petiole 4—1 in., stout. Fl. clusters 
pisiform ; receptacle hirsute, Achenes elliptic, stipitate, acute at both ends, ven- 
tricose.—Dr. King sends as var. tenuis a Sikkim plant with thinner ovate coarsely 
serrate perfectly glabrous leaves 3-5 in. long ; it is in male fl. only. Clarke gathered 
the same at 7000 ft. elevation, and refers it to malabarica, but its inflorescence is 
Spicate. It appears to me to be quite a different species. 
tt Leaves opposite (and alternate in B. platyphylla). 
6. B. macrophylla, Don Prodr. 60; monecious, leaves opposite 
lanceolate caudate-acuminate serrulate base acute above sparsely hispid 
rugulose and pustular, beneath softly or hispidly pubescent or glabrate, 
spikes elongate pendulous leafless simple or branched below, clusters with 
anceolate bracts, fruit obovate-cuneate compressed ciliate with a 9—4-toothed 
neck. Wedd. Monogr. 375, t. 11, f. 1-9; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 209; Brund. 
For. FI. 403; Kurz For. Fl i. 424; Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 217. B.penduh- 
ora, Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4,1. 199. Urtica penduliflora, Wall. Cat. 
4595. U. angustifolia, Ham. mss., and U. macrostachya, Wall mss., ex 
Don l.c. U. pulcherrima, Wall. Cat. 4596. 
SUBTROPICAL Himataya, from Kumaon to Mishmi, ascending to 4000 ft. 
Hasra Mis., alt. 2-4000 ft. Ava HILLS, Kurz. . 
A shrub or small tree; branchlets stout, obtusely 4-angled, glabrous or strigose. 
Leaves 6-12 in., teeth obtuse, pustules on surfaces often perforate; upper surface 
sometimes bullate, under with deep hollows between the nervules; petiole j-1 ne 
Strigose or glabrous ; stipules lanceolate, midrib hairy. Spikes shorter than or equalling 
the leaves; clusters globose, 1-1 in. diam. 
7. B. Kurzii, Hook. f., quite glabrous except the spikes, leaves 
Opposite elliptic-oblong or lanceolate acuminate quite entire subsiivery 
eneath 3-nerved, spikes very slender simple tomentose, fruit very minute 
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