584 MONOECIA TETRANDRIA. Urtica, 
Hind. Pippira-Saree, . 
Is found about Calcutta, growing among bushes in wet 
places ; flowers during the rains. 4a 
Root of capillary fibres. Stem long and slender, restng @ 
on the earth, and rooting ; above erect, seemingly perennial, aN 
round, smooth, the inferior branches opposite, and cross-arm- 
ed, the superior ones flower-bearing, alternate. Leaves the 
inferior ones opposite, somewhat petioled, and larger, the up- 
per ones smaller, alternate, and sessile, all linear-lanceolate, 
three-nerved, somewhat scabrous, serrate ; size very various ; “3 
about four inches long, Flowers axillary, two female ones 
generally placed on the outsides and sessile, while several pe- 
‘y duncled male ones occupy the centre, and expand in succes- 
»§ sion, The Mate rrowers before they expand appear like 
«a most regular, five-sided., half-exeavated cup, with a beau- 
\  tiful, fringed, scolloped 1 nargir Calyx five-leaved, Corol 5 
none. NVectary none. ’ Stamens five, flying open with a re- 
 markably smart jerk. Fema.e rrowers, Calyx, I cannot 
separate it from the germ, Germ obcordate, compres-ell, 
two-winged, with an elevated ridged appendix on the inside. © 
Style villous, Seed ovate, lanceolate, acute, smooth, base } 1 
white, nid 2 part brownish black, 
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Suffruticose. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, broadest at the 
base, entire, three-nerved, smooth, #/lowers axillary, crowd- 
ed, sub-sessile, Female calyx one-leaved, ribbed, mouth bi- 
dentate. ) 
From Sumatra, this perennial, somewhat shrubby plant, 
was introduced into the Botanic garden at Caleutta in 1803, _ 
_ where it is in constant flower and seed the whole year. 
Root fibrous, _ Stem short, somewhat ligneous, soon divid- 
ing into many diffuse, and erect, round branches and branch- 
lets, covered with coloured bark, over which are many short, 
appressed, white hairs, the whole extent of the longest of out 
young plants about two feet. Leaves scattered, short-pet- 
7. U. suffruticosa, R. 4 | 
