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Urtica, - MONOECIA TETRANDRIA, 591 
Stipules ensiform, one on each side of the insertion of the pe- 
tiole. Panicles in axillary pairs, about as long as the peti- 
oles, villous. Flowers numerous, small, of a greenish yel- 
low, collected in small, globular heads; male on the inferior 
panicles, and female on the superior ones. Bractes minute. 
Mate, Calyx of four ovate, concave leaflets. Corol none. 
Nectary a globular pedicelled gland in the centre resembling 
a pistillum. Filaments four. Anthers two-lobed, FrEMA.e. 
Calyx one-leaved, urceolate. Corol none, Stamina none. 
Germ oblong, minute, hairy, no filaments surrounding it, as 
in Louriero’s U. nivea, Stigma single, hairy, and about the 
length of the germ. Seeds, they have not been found ina 
ripe state. 
To procure the fibres, Marsden says the shoots are cut 
down, dried, aud beaten, after which the rind is stripped off. 
Rumphius’s Ramium majus, Hor, Amb. 215, t..79.f. 1, which 
I take to be this plant, yields also fibres of the same nature, 
and is quoted by Willdenow for Urtica, which from the pre- 
vailing definition of that plant, “ Foliis sub-orbiculatis utrin- 
que acutis, vel base attenuatis,” | must conclude to be a differ- 
ent species, for in all the plants in the Botanic garden, origi- 
nally from Sumatra, from Prince of Wales’ Island, and from 
Rungpoor, they are uniformly broad-cordate. Both male 
and female inflorescence glomerate, panicled. Calyx of the 
latter of one leaf, and the germ destitute of the barren fila- 
_ ments which Louriero gives to U. nivea, 
20. U. ecrenulata, R. 
Shrubby, dioecous, erect. Leaves alternate, oblong, acute, 
crenate, Spikes axillary, compound, dichotomous. 
_ A native of the eastern parts of Bengal,and first found near 
Luckipore by Dr. Buchanan; flowering time the latter part 
of the rains. 
Stem erect, shrubby. Bark smooth, ash-coloured, armed 
with most acute, burning hairs. Leaves alternate, short-pe- 
tioled, oblong, acute, crenulate, or slightly dentate, both sides 
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