578 CXXXVI. URTICACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Boehmeria. 
pedicelled narrowly ellipsoid beaked villous much shorter than the slender 
style. . 
Prev, Kurz. 
Branches slender. Leaves 5-7 by 2-24 in., coriaceous, finely reticulate, base 
acute; nerves strong, somewhat glandular in the axils beneath ; petiole 3-1} in. 
rather stout. Spikes about equalling the leaves; male fl. villous.—Near B. macro- 
phylla, but quite glabrous, with much more slender spikes, and smaller villous fruits 
with a longer style. The leaves more resemble B. rugulosa, but are opposite and 
quite entire. Kurz has named one specimen B. Hamiltoniana, Wedd.. and another 
“nov. sp.’ In Herb. Caleutt. it is called var. Kurzii of B. platyphylla. I think 
there are traces of crenatures in some of the leaves, but they are very obscure. 
8. B: platyphylla, Don Prodr. 60; moncecious or dicecious, leaves 
mostly opposite broadly ovate elliptie or orbicular acuminate or caudate 
coarsely toothed pubescent tomentose scaberulous or glabrate on both 
surfaces, base rounded or eordate, spikes usually longer than the leaves 
simple or sparingly branched, fruit compressed or angled. Wedd. Monogr. 
"E DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 210; Brand. For. Fl. 403; Maximov. Diagn. xx. 
TROPICAL and SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Simla eastwards, ascending to 
7000 ft., and southwards to BEHAR and TRAVANCORE on the West, and '"TENASSER'M 
on the East. CEYLON; ascending to 6000 ft.—Disrris. Malay Islands, China, 
Japan, Africa. 
Shrubby, branches soft, glabrous or substrigose. Leaves 3-9 in., teeth usually 
large, triangular; 3 nerves all penninervuled; petiole 1-5 in. Fi. clusters pisiform. 
Fruit narrowed or beaked at the 4-tocthed tip.—A most variable plant. B andis 
makes three principal varieties of the North-Western forms: 1. macrostachya, with 
long-petioled leaves and simple fem. spikes; 2. rotundifolia, with orbicular cuspidate 
leaves; 3. scabrella, with smaller leaves and shorter spikes. Weddell enumerates 
still other forms, which may be approximately defined as follows. 
B. PLATYPHYLLA PROPER; leaves rounded sparsely hispid or pubescent, base 
eglandular, fem. spikes very long pendulous. B. macrostachya, Wedd. in Ann. >C 
Nat. Ser, 4, i. 199; Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 224. B. Wightiana, Blume l.c. 217. 
mauritiana, Wedd. l.c.200; Blume l.c. 216. B. caudata, Poir. in Bonpl. Jard. 
Malm, t. 15; Kurz l. c. 424, ' Splitgerbera macrostachya, Wight Ic. t. 1977. Urtica 
macrostachya, Wall. Cat. 4582 (excl. D). U. platyphylla, Ham. mss. 
Var. zeylanica, Wedd. in DC. 1. c. 211; leaves membranous elliptic ovate oF ovate 
oblong caudate-acuminate crenate serrate throughout sparsely hispid above, nerves 
beneath hairy, spikes simple much shorter thau the leaves.— Ceylon, Thwaites, vit 
var. scabrella, under C. P. 2197. l 
Var. scabrella, Wedd. l.c. ; leavesorbicular elliptic or obovate cuspidate usually rogo 
above and lacunose beneath, spikes short subsimple erect. B. scabrella, Gau e 
Prenc. Voy. 4995. Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat.i. ii. 252. B. ourantha, Mig. Pl. Jungh i 897 
Blume we, 221. Splitgerbera scabrella, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. pi, 239. Urtica 
caudata, Burm. Fl. Ind. 198; Blume Bijd. 492. U. scabrella, Roxb. Fl. Ind. n. 
551; Wight Ic. t. 691; Wall. Cat. 4581. U. uragera, Steud. Nomencl. i 736.— 
All India, common.—Clarke (Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xv. 125) considers this a very 
distinct species. igpid 
Var. rugosissima, Wedd. 1. c. 212; leaves coriaceous rugose serrate throughout hisp 
bove pubescent beneath, spikes subfuscicled shorter than the leaves. B. rogos 
Miquel Pl. Jungh. i. 32; Fl. Ind. Bat. i. i. 251; Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 222. "T" 
vugosissima, Reinwdt. in Blume Bijd. 490.—Ceylon, Sumatra, Java. ; tomen- 
Var. tomentosa, Wedd. l. c, ; leaves subcoriaceous acutely serrate softly A ond 
ose or villous on both surfaces, teeth medium-sized ? spikes simple often sho alt. 
very stout. B. tomentosa, Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, i. 200, — Khasia Mes 
1—5000 ft., Sikkim and Bhotan. 
