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Urtica, MONOECIA TETRANDRIA, 593 
dark coloured, scabrous bark, the whole extending to a 
great.length by twining up and over trees, &c. Leaves al- 
ternate, petioled, cordate, entire, smooth; from four to eight 
inches long, by from three to six broad. Petioles half the 
length of the leaves, round, coloured, Stipules axillary, so- 
litary, large, ovate-oblong, smooth, of a deep dark ferrugin- 
ous colour, Mate, Panicles from the old axills composed 
of numerous, small, globular heads of minute, very fragrant 
corollets, Bractes in fours, at the divisions of the panicle, 
oval, and oblong, coloured like the stipules. Common peri- 
anth none, or very obscure ; proper one four-leaved ; leaflets, 
oblong, concave, sub-cucullate over the anthers, Corol none. 
Filaments four, very broad, and short. Anthers cordate, 
Germ none, but a columnar, headed gland in its place. 
FEMALE on a different plant. Peduncles from the axills of 
the former leaves, as in the male, generally solitary, once or 
twice dichotomous, with a larger globular head of small, 
beautiful, purple, fragrant, pedicelled corollets on each divi- 
sion, Bractes asin the male. Proper perianth one-leaved, 
four-parted, segments often unequal. Coro/ none. Stamina 
none. Germ superior, oblong, one-celled, containing one 
ovulum attached to the bottom of the cell. Style short. — 
‘Stigma lateral, oblong. Pericarp none, the remaining 
succulent calyx covering a single, oblong seed, which has, 
besides an exterior succulent envolope, a middle thin hard 
one, and an inner membranceous one, Perisperm while the 
seeds are recent there is a thin succulent one. Embryo in- 
verse. Cotyledons two, oblong. Radicle cylindric, superior. 
24, U. globulifer, Roxb. : 
- Dioecous, shrubby, scandent. Leaves alternate, long- 
piticled: oblong, entire, villous, Panic/es axillary ; _ 
ules globular, compact, panicled. 
Lal-Kudum, the vernacular name in Silhet, where the 
plants are found indigenous, climbing over trees and bushes. 
Flowering time February and March. The seeds are ripe 
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