Mr. Suepuerp, the early leaves were. cordate-sagittate ani 
uite entire, so that however different the drawings seen, 
ere can be no doubt but that they belong to the sam 
species. M. Lamarck makes the plant with divided leave 
a variety of the other. 
We had no opportunity of examining the flower ow- 
selves, but, according to Mr. Hooxer, the male and femak 
are mixed indeterminately, and the male are composed of 
two stamens without either calyx or corolla. 
The genus belongs to the natural ordér of Urticee, aul 
some of the species, if not all, are moneecious ; PrRsoos 
has accordingly arranged the genus in the twenty-first clas" 
of the Linnean System instead of the fourth. 
Our drawing was made at the splendid establishment 
belonging to the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, i 
September 1823, at which time it flowered in the stove. 
