Urtica. MONOF.riA tktrandrla. 585 



oled, drooping-, from ovate-lanceolate below, to linear-lanceo- 

 late above, tliree-nerverl, the upper surface smooth, and some- 

 what lucid; plain underneath, and somewhat hairy, particu- 

 larly the nerves; general length about two inches, and half 

 an inch ])road. Slipvles paired, conic, acute, embracing the 

 little bundles of flowers. Floxoers, male and female crowd- 

 ed in the same axiil, sub-sessile, small, of a greenish yellow. 

 Female calyx one-leaved, with a contracted, bidentate 

 mouth ; and the outside deeply ribbed and hairy. Seed 

 ovate, acute, polished, of a dark brownish black. 



8. U. minima. R. 



Annual, diflTuse. Leaves alternate, ovate, deeply cre- 

 nate. Flowers in terminal, compound, peduncled fascicles; 

 female jioicers numerous, with a two-leaved calyx. 



A native of the Island of Honimoa, and far the smallest of 

 the genus 1 have yet met with, its greatest extent being only 

 over a space of from four to five inches. 



9. U. interrupta. Linn. 



Annual, erect, bristly. Leaves cordate, serrate. Racemes 

 compound; partial racemes corymbed. Stipules solitary, 

 two-cleft. Seeds compressed, obliquely cordate. 



Batti scorigenam. Rheed. Mai. ii, /. 40. 



Beng. and Hind. Lall hic\\i{i, 



Boehmeria interrupta. Willd. iv. 342. 



A larae annual found wild near Calcutta ; flowering- time 

 the rainy season. 



Root rarnous, annual. Stem erect, Ilexuous, furrowed, 

 bristly, from two to four feet high ; branches axillary, like 

 the stem. Leaves alternate, petioled, deeply serrate, thrco- 

 nerved, besprinkled with a i'ew snmll bristles, particularly 

 the coloured nerves and larger veins; from two to six inches 

 long, and nearly as broad. Petioles as long as the leaves, 

 coloured, round, bristly. Stipules nxxWiwy ., solitary, half two- 

 cleft ; divisions subulate, fringed. Racemes axillary, solita- 

 voL. in. -5 V 



