ce 
Urtica. MONOECIA TETRANDRIA, 585 
oled, drooping, from ovate-lanceolate below, to linear-lanceo- 
late above, three-nerved, the upper surface smooth, and some- 
what lucid ; plain underneath, and somewhat hairy, particu- 
larly the nerves; general length about two inches, and half 
an inch broad. Stipules paired, conic, acute, embracing the 
little bundles of flowers. lowers, male and female crowd- 
ed in the same axill, sub-sessile, small, of a greenish yellow. 
Female calyx one-leaved, with a contracted, bidentate 
mouth; and the outside deeply ribbed and hairy, Seed 
ovate, acute, polished, of a dark brownish black. 
8. U. minima. R. 
Annual, diffuse. Leaves alternate, ovate, deeply cre> — 
nate. Flowers in terminal, compound, peduncled fascicles ; 
Jemale flowers numerous, with a two-leaved calyx. 
A native of the Island of Honimoa, and far the smallest of 
the genus I have yet met with, its greatest extent being only 
over a apace of from four to five inches. 
Sts intiivagibe: Disa: 
Annual, erect, bristly. Leaves cordate, serrate. acemes 
compound; partial racemes corymbed. Stipules solitary, 
two-cleft. Seeds compressed, obliquely cordate. 
- Battiscorigenam. Rheed. Mal. ii. t. 40. 
Beng. and Hind. Lall bichiti. 
Boehmeria interrupta. Willd, iv. 342. : 
A large annual found wild near Calcutta; flowering time 
the rainy season. 
Root ramous, annual. Siem erect, flexuous, furrowed, | 
bristly, from two to four feet high ; branches axillary, like 
the stem. Leaves alternate, petioled, deeply serrate, three- 
nerved, besprinkled with a few small bristles, particularly 
the coloured nerves and larger veins; from two to six inches 
long, and nearly as broad. Petioles as long as the lenzes, 
coloured, round, bristly, Stipules axillary, solitary, half two- 
cleft ; divisions subulate, fringed, . - Racemes axillary, soli 
VOL, It. 3V 
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