URTICACEAE. 
Determined by CAMILLO SCHNEIDER. 
BOEHMERIA Jacq. 
Boehmeria nivea Gaudichaud! in Freycinet, Voy. Bot. 499 (1826). — 
Hooker & Arnott, Bot. Voy. Beechey, 214 (1836). — Hooker in 
Hooker’s Jour. Bot. & Kew Gard. Misc. III. 315, t. 8 (1851). — Blume, 
Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. Yl. 210 (1856). — Weddel in Ann. Sci. Nat. 
sér. 4, I. 200 (1854); in Arch. Mus. Paris, IX. 380, t. 11, fig. 10-17 
(Monog. Urticac.) (1856); in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 1, 206 
(1859). — Bentham, Fl. Hongk. 331 (1861). — Miquel in Ann. Mus. 
Lugd.-Bat. III. 131 (1867); Prol. Fl. Jap. 295 (1867). — Brandis, 
Forest Fl. Ind. 402 (1874).— Maximowiez in Bull. Acad. Sci. 
St. Pétersbourg, XXII. 249 (1876); in Mél. Biol. IX. 638 (1877). — 
Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 576 (1888). — Dippel, Handb. Laubholzk. 
II. 4 (1892). — Koehne, Deutsche Dendr. 140 (1893). — Wright in 
Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 486 (1894). — Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 303 
(1900). — Schneider, IU. Handb. Laubholzk. I. 246, fig. 159 a-h 
(1904). — Matsumura & Hayata in Jour. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, XXII. 385 
(Enum. Pl. Formos.) (1906). — Koorders, Exkursionsfl. Java, 11. 143 
(1912). — Diels in Not. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh, VII. 269 (1912), 342 
(Pl. Chin. Forrest.) (1913). 
Urtica nivea Linnaeus, Spec. 985 (1753). — Jacquin, Hort. Vindob. II. 78, t. 
166 (1772). 
Western Hupeh: wild and abundant around Ichang, 300-900 m., 
July 1907 (No. 3759). Kiangsi: Kuling, rocky places, abundant, 
alt. 1200 m., August 1, 1907 (No. 1518; bush 0.9-1.8 m. tall). 
Yunnan: * Tali Range, Lat. 25? 40' N., alt. 8000-9000 ft.," June 
11, 1896, G. Forrest (No. 4782). 
This plant is much cultivated in Szech'uan for its fibre, which is an important 
article of commerce in the west and in other warm parts of China. Some account 
of the industry will be found in my A Naturalist in Western China, II. 82 (1913) 
2nd a picture of the plant under No. 0173 of the collection of my ura Se 
1 Gaudichaud writes: Boehmeria (Procris) nivea; hence he is the first author of 
the combination. 
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