592 MONOECIA TETRANDRIA. Urtica. 
armed with a few burning white hairs. Stipules cordate, 
small, caducous, Femaue.* Spikes axillary, solitary, di- 
chotomous, with alternate lateral divisions, Flowers numer- 
ous, all female. Ca/yx four-parted. Geri ovate, oné-seed- 
ed. Style none. Stigma long, villous, fleshy and tapering. 
21. U. acuminata. R. 
Sub-arboreous, hairy. Leaves petioled, broad-lanceolar, 
entire, acuminate, Female glomerules axillary, small, globu- 
lar; in short, once or twice-dichotomous peduncles. 
A small, erect, ramous tree, with dusky bark and hairy 
_ branchlets, a native of the forests of Chittagong, where it 
flowers during the cool season. 
22. U. involucrata. R. 
Arboreous. Leaves alternate, broad-cordate, downy, sub- 
entire. Stipules opposite, subulate. Peduncles axillary, 
drooping. bearing a few female flowers in an involucred 
head. . 
_ Anative of the Malay Islands. In the Botanic garden it 
is in blossom the whole year, but no male flowers have been 
found, nor do the seeds ripen. " 
23. U. naucliflora. R 
_ Dioecous, shrubby, twining. Leaves alternate, cordate, 
entire ; glomerules globular, compact, the male ones panicled. 
A large; scandent, woody plant, common in the forests of 
hittagong, Silhet, and the eastern frontier of Bengal. In 
the former baoes by the vernacular name Dolea Sat, and in 
the latter Luta Kudum, i. e. scandent Nauelea, Flowers 
beautiful and fragrant, appearing at various times through 
the year, but ripening best about or before the wean” of 
the rains, 
Stem and — breathes stout and woody covered with 
si J hans yet met with the male elie aa est 
