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UrtTIcaA INVOLUCRATA. ImBosomep NETTLE. 
KEKE EEE KEE KKEK 
Cia and Order. 
Monazcta TeTRANDRIA, 
Generic Character. 
Masc. Cal. 4-phyllus. Cor. 0. Nectar. centrale, cya- 
thiforme, os. | ‘ 
Few. Cal. 2-valvis. Cor. 0. Sem. 1, nitidum. 
apse 
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| Urrica involucrata; caule ramoso hirsuto, foliis o positis 
_ Totundato-ovatis crenatis trinerviis lucidis ad apices 
ramorum congestis, paniculis sessilibus. ie 
cee 
| Wehad no opportunity of seeing this plant ourselves ; 
| but as far as we have been able to discover, it has not been 
hitherto described. 3 
€ are informed by Mr. Sasine that it was brought 
| from the island of St. Vincent’s, for the Horticultural So- 
Ciety, by Mr. James Mac Crag, late under-gardiner at the 
Botanic Garden there, in 1823. It flowered in the Society’s 
stove in October, in the same year, 
