588 MONOECIA TETRANDRIA, Urtica, . 
six inches long, by three broad. Petioles rather short, some- 
what channelled, bristly. Stipules solitary, interfoliaceous. 
_ Female spikes axillary, solitary, compound, expanding, — 
larger than the leaves, their branches alternate, bifarious, and 
composed of minute alternate branchlets, all round, deep- 
ly coloured, and bristly. Female flowers numerous, sessile, 
intermixed among small coloured, bristly bractes, Calyx 
four-leaved. Corol none. Stamina none. Germ ovate, Siyle 
and stigma single, and villous. Seed solitary, compressed. 
13. U. pulcherrima. R. 
Dioecous, shrubby. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, serrate, 
three-nerved, veins reticulate ; underneath hoary and pitted. 
Spikes axillary, paired, compound, glomerate, recurved. 
male flowers pentandrous, 
A most beautiful shrub, a native of Chittagong ; flowering 
during the rains; the seed ripens in the cool season. 
Siem as thick as a man’s leg, very short, but straight. 
Branches numerous, spreading in every direction round the 
stem, Bark of theold woody parts brown, and pretty smooth; 
that of the young, coloured shoots angular, and clothed with 
short appressed hairs. Leaves alternate, rather long-peti- 
oled, exactly narrow-lanceolar, beautifully serrate, long, ta- 
pering, acute-pointed, three-nerved, with elevations on the 
- upper surface corresponding with the pits below, which ren- 
der them rough though lucid, about six inches Jong, by 
one broad. Veins diverging and reticulate, hoary underneath, 
and there parted round the margin, and slightly in the mid- 
dle of the space between the nerves. Petioles from one to 
two inches long, a little hairy, coloured and channelled. 
Stipules axillary, small, scariose. Male calyx in axillary 
pairs, recurved in opposite directions, compound, glomerate. 
Calya five-leaved. Stamina five. Female spikes on a dif- 
ferent plant and like the male. Calyx of one, two-lobed, 
bivalvular-like, ciliate leaflet. Germ oval. Style none. 
Stamina a villous tuft. 
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