pi 
Basan 
Urtica. MONOECIA TETRANDRIA. 587 
This is the most ferocious looking plant I have seen, and 
it acts up to its appearance ; the least touch of any part pro- 
duces most acute pain, but fortunately of short duration. The 
bark abounds in fine, white, glossy, silk-like, strong fibres, 
11. U. vescicaria, Roxb. 
Shrubby, erect, Leaves alternate, broad- seccockits! three- 
nerved, entire, downy. Flowers axillary, crowded, sessile. 
Female calyx with an inflated swelling round the base. 
A shrubby species, a native of the Circar mountains. 
Flowering and seed time the wet season. 
Stems or branches several, perennial, somewhat shrubby, — 
from four to six feet high, erect, round, somewhat winding. 
Bark of the woody parts smooth, ash-coloured, that of the 
young shoots hairy. Leaves alternate, spreading, petioled, 
broad-lanceolate, entire, downy, three-nerved; from two to 
three in¢hes long, and about one broad. Stipules semi-lan- 
ceolate, caducous, Flowers axillary, sessile, crowded ; male 
and female mixed. Male calyx four-parted. Nectarial 
glands ovate, small, Female calyx as in U, tuberosa, round 
its base on the outside are, from five to six or seven small, 
obovate, inflated, permanent vescicles. Style, atin and 
seed, as in tuberosa, Rgaege bale 
12. U. decumana. Rumph. Amb, vi. t. 20. f. 1. 
_Shrubby. Leaves alternate, cordate, serrate, rugose, brist-) 
ly. Female cant composed of alternate, bifarious ramifi- 
cations, 
Mal. Dien Gattal, 
Introduced from the Siskowting into the garden at Salone 
ta in 1802. In April 1803 one plant blossomed. «It had 
only a short ligneous stem, covered with smooth, ash-colour- 
ed bark, and some few — young, round, pes branches 
arising therefrom. ° gee 
Leaves alternate, foticbed, cordate, cline very. rugose, 
both sides armed with clear, sharp, stinging bristlets, about 
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