( 3043 ) 



Urena lobata. Angular-leaved 

 Urena. 



Class and Order. 



MONADELPHIA PoLYANDRIA. 



( Nat, Ord. — Malvaceje. ) 



Generic Character. 



Calyx cinctus involucello 5-fido, nempe foliolis 5 ad me- 

 dium coalitis. Antherce in apice tubi staminei. Carpella 

 capsularia 5, conniventia, 1-sperma, extus aculeis apice 

 radiatis saepissime echinata. — Folia subtus in nervis scepius 

 glandulosa. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Urena * lobata ; foliis subrotundis obtusissime 3 — 5-lobis, 



subtus precipua molliter velutinis 3 — 5-nerviis uni- 



glandulosis, laciniis calycinis oblongo-lanceolatis. 

 Urena lobata. Linn. Sp. PL p. 974. Willd. Sp. PL v. 



3. p. 800. Cav. Diss. 6. p. 336. t. 185./ I. Ait. 



Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 4. p. 222. De Cand. Prodr.v. 



1. p. 441. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 96. Saint 



Hil. PL Us. Brasil. t. 56. 

 Urena sinica, xanthii facie. DHL Hort. Elth. p. 340. t. 



319. / 412. 



Descr. A shrub, from two to four feet high, every where 

 downy. Leaves alternate, roundish, three to five-lobed, 

 and about as many nerved, the upper ones less divided, 

 green, below very downy and almost white, having at the 

 very base just above the insertion of the petiole, a yellow- 

 ish-green 



From Uren, its Malabar name, according to Adanson. 



