586 MONOECIA TETRANDRIA. Urtica. 
ry, erect, from six to twelve inches long, composed of remote, 
twice two-cleft, recurved corymbs. Maxi rLowers few. 
Calyx, &c. as in the genus, FEMALE FLOWERS numerous, 
Calyx one-leaved, of an oblique, cup-form, compressed, 
mouth four-toothed. Pistillum half immersed in the calyx, 
obliquely ovate. Seed compressed, cordate, sitting on the 
mouth of the now totally reflexed calyx, and covered with a 
yellowish, fleshy, rugose integument, which adheres to, and 
drops with it. 
The hairs of this plant sting like the common nettle. 
10, U. heterophylla, Willd. iv. 362. 
Annual. Leaves alternate, cordate, variously lobate, gross- 
ly serrate. Male and female flowers on distinct, glomerate, 
peduncled spikes ; every part armed with stiff, acute, burn- 
ing bristles. 
- Ana schorigenam. Rheed. Mal. ii. p. 77. t. Al. 
A native of the mountains of Malabar, from thence the seeds 
were sent by Dr. Buchanan, to the Botanic garden at Caleut- 
ta, where the plants blossom and ripen their seed during the 
cold season ; soon after which they perish. 
. Root annual, ramous. Stem erect, flexuose,-angular, with 
small white specks, in which are inserted stiff most acute 
bristles, pointing rigidly in every direction; branches as cend- 
ing, and like the stem. Leaves alternate, long ipetiolals cor- 
= date, lobate, towards the top of the plant almost palmate, all 
‘ossly serrate, armed with the same bristles as the stem 
a ‘branches, and some harsh pubescence beside; from 
four to eight inches long, breadth nearly the same. Petioles 
about half the length of the leaves, channelled and armed. 
Stipules large, axillary, solitary, cordate, with the apex end- 
ing in one or two acute points, Peduncles axillary, the low- 
er supporting the male, sub-cylindric, amentaceous flowers; 
those towards the apex of the plant, the female ones, in large, 
_ glomerate, variously divided spikes. Male flowers as in -_ 
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