!278 Dr. Francis Hamilton's Commentary 



as fig. 1. is quoted for the next variety, in which the Urtica pilu- 

 Hfera &c. of Burman is rightly joined with the Batti Schorige- 

 nam, and with no other plant. So far is well, and the chief 

 points remaining to be determined are, whether the inert U. in- 

 terrupta a, is to be considered as a mere variety of the stinging 

 U. interrupta (B, and whether one or both be really Urticce. I 

 have already mentioned a doubt on this last head, as one of the 

 authors quoted by the elder Burman for his Urtica piliilifera 

 &c. calls it tricoccos, which implies its not being an Urtica as 

 defined by Linnaeus. 



M. Lamarck (Eiic. Meth. iv. 643.) continues the U. inter- 

 rupta much as it was in Burman 's Flora Indica ; but quotes all 

 the four synonyma, without dividing them into two varieties or 

 sets ; only he quotes the U. fatua &c. with doubt. It is clear, 

 however, that the specimens which he had, belonged to the Batti 

 Schorigenam, as it had " feuilles point cordiformes — parsemees de 

 polls piquans," and it is impossible to conceive that he would 

 mistake one of the Euphorbia or Tricoccce for an Urtica. That 

 point may therefore be considered as settled ; and the Plant a 

 tricocca of Hermann quoted by Burman, may be safely referred 

 to some other place. 



Willdenow {Sp. PL iv. 342.) calls the U. interrupta of Lin- 

 naeus by the name of Boehmeria interrupta, leaving it still, how- 

 ever, in the natural order of Urtica ; but he throws the synonyma 

 again into some of the confusion from which they had been 

 freed in the Flora Indica of Burman. The Batti ScJiorigenam he 

 indeed leaves with the Urtica pilulifera &c. of the elder Bur- 

 man : but then he places these stinging hairy erect plants in his 

 first variety of the Boehmeria interrupta foliis glabris, and along 

 with them he includes the Urtica of the Flora Zeylanica, the 

 leaves of which do not sting, and the Lupulo vulgari similis &c. 

 of Plukenet, which is most probably a climber : but further, for 



his 



