a 
Urtica. MONOECIA TETRANDRIA, 583 
sile; several female with one or two male ones, both sorts are 
very small, ule calyx to the base four-cleft. Female ur- 
ceolate, from eight to ten-ribbed, Seed ovate, acute, Calyx 
smooth, shining, of a chesnut colour, witha white b se, 
5. U. tuberosa, R. ; 
Root tuberous, Leaves alternate, oblong, three-nerved, 
hairy. Flowers axillary, sessile; seed much pointed, _ 
Herba memoria, Rumph. Amb, vi, t. 12. f. 2. 
Is exceedingly like old plants of U. alienata; and young 
plants of this are very like Parieteria officinalis, 
Teling. Pilli-dumpa. 
A native of the banks of water courses, hedges, &e. where 
it meets with a good soil, and shady situation, It flowers 
during the wet and cold seasons, 
Root perennial, tuberous, spindle-formed, perpendicular, 
Stems or branches several, annual, from one to six feet long, 
flaccid, resting on the ground, or bushes; striated, alittle hairy. 
Leaves spreading, petioled ; on the lower part of the primi- 
tive stem opposite, larger, and much broader in proportion, 
than on the branches, where they are alternate, pointed, en- 
tire, three-nerved and hairy, from one to three inches long, 
and broad in proportion. £/owers axillary, sessile, Riles 
ed. Male and female mixed, very small. Mare, Wectary 
a pedicelled gland in the centre; the rest as in the genus, 
Femae, Calyx one-leaved, gibbous, mouth contracted, and 
slightly notched. Style long, hairy. Stigma acute. Seed 
ovate, acute. 
The roots are esculent,and nutritious; the natives eat them 
_ raw, boiled, or roasted, 
6. U. pentandra, Rox), 
Perennial, diffuse. Leaves opposite, ae econ: sub- 
sessile, linear, small, three-nerved. Flowers axillary, yen — 
tandrous ; the male ones peduncled ; the ele , 
with calyx winged. 
