316 DESCRIPTION OF TWO SPECIES OF BOEHMERIA. 
to Gaudichaud), Leaves on long petioles, broadly cordate but having 
no sinus or lobes at the base, the base rather truncate or tapering | 
suddenly into the petiole, the apex suddenly acuminated into a 
- slender point, almost caudate, the margin coarsely serrated, full green 
above, white with dense fine down beneath, 3-nerved at the base, the 
rest of the leaf penninerved, the ‘principal nerves united by slender 
nervelets.  Petiole terete, hairy. Stipules subulate, brown, deci- 
duous, soon becoming brown. Peduncles about 2 together, axillary, 
slender, filiform, paniculate, bearing nearly sessile clusters or glomerules 
of flowers throughout their length, hairy. Male panicles below ; female 
above. Male flowers few in each glomerule. Perianth deeply 4-partite, 
hairy externally; the segments ovate. Stamens 4, spreading: rudi- 
ment of an ovary. Female flowers several in a globose glomerule. 
Perianth of one piece, oblong-cylindrical, very hairy, 4-toothed. Ovary 
included : style thick-subulate, much exserted beyond the perianth, 
hairy. Achenium, when ripe, obovate, substipitate. 
Tas. VIII. Boehmeria nivea. Fig. 1. Male flower; fig. 2, glomerule 
of female flowers; fig. 3, single female flower ; fig. 4, pericarps (or 
seeds, as they are generally called), nat. size; fig. 5, pericarp :— 
all but fig. 4 more or less magnified. 
2. BoEHMERIA Puya. 
Nepal Boehmer-Nettle, Pooak or Puya. 
(Tas. VIL) 
Fruticosa elata erecta, caule petiolisque appresso-hirsutis, foliis alternis 
sublonge petiolatis lato-lanceolatis e basi parallelo-trinerviis anguste 
acuminatis pergrosse serratis subtus albido-lanatis, paniculis axilla- 
ribus, floribus glomeratis, glomerulis subsessilibus, pericarpiis basi 
obtusissimis. 
-Urtica Puya. Herb. Ham.— Wall. Cat. n. 4605.— Hook. in Kew Gard. 
i Misc. v. 1. p. 26 (Boehmeria). 
. Urtica frutescens, Row’. Fl. Ind. v. 8. p. 589. (excl. Syn. Thunb. et 
Willd.) 
Pooah, Campbell in Trans. of Agric. Soc. of India, 1847. 
Has. Mountains north of Bengal and Oude, Roxburgh. Nepal, 
Hamilton, Wallich. Mountains of Eastern Nepal and Sikkim, at the 
foot of the hills skirting the Terai to the elevation of 1,000 and 1,200 
feet, and on the mountains up to 3,000 feet, in open hilly places, 
