590 MONOECIA TETRANDRIA. Urtica, + 
A native of the Moluccas, where it grows to be a large 
straggling shrub, with leaves from six to twelve or more 
inches ienig: Panis composed of numerous alternate in- 
curved divisions, crowded with innumerable, sesgile, female 
flowers on their opposite margins only, 
19. U, tenacissima, R. 
Shrubby, erect, ramous. Leaves alternate, long-petioled, 
broad-cordate, grossly serrate, hoary underneath, Panicles 
axillary, lowers in round fascicles; the male ones on the 
lower panicles and the female ones above. 
Caloose, Marsden’s Sumatra, p. 57. 
Rami, the Malay name in the Island of Pulo Pinang. 
A native of the Island of Sumatra, where it is cultivated 
for its bark, which abounds in fibres of very great strength 
and fineness. In the Botanic garden where it has lately been 
introduced, with the view of obtaining its valuable fibres, it 
grows very luxuriantly, and blossoms about the close of the 
rainy season. We have now had it five years in the garden, 
the roots of the original plants, as well as of their progeny; 
are becoming daily extended, and continue healthy and vi- 
goréus, throwing up numerous shoots, as often as they are cut 
down for the fibres of their bark, which may be done about 
four or even five times every year, if the soil is good and care 
taken of the plants, viz. if kept clean of weeds, and watered. 
_ when the weather is so dry as for the nal to require — 
a and carefully drained when too wet, 
The plant is as readily cultivated from cuttings, as the 
‘Willow, which is fortunate, as Ihave never yet found it pest 
duce fertile seed. 
Stems, when suffered to remain, they become stout, and 
ligneous, and then covered with brown, somewhat scabrous 
bark. Branches many, spreading considerably, the ligneous 
parts with bark likethe stems; the tender parts hairy. Leaves 
alternate, long-petioled, cordate, hairy, and a little hoary un- 
derneath, three-nerved ; shout. six inches ner mip four wae 
