270 URTICACEAL. [chap. 



8 1. Natural Order, Urticaccce. — The Nettle and Fig Family. 



Trees, shrubs, or herbs, usually with alternate stipulate 

 leaves and minute unisexual flowers. Stamens equal iu 

 number and opposite to perianth-lobes (except Sub-type 2). 

 Ovary free, usually one-celled. 



Type — Grass-cloth Plant {Boehmeria iiivea). 



Fig. 157. Staminate flower of Grass- 

 cloth Nettle. 



Fig. 158. Pistillate flower 

 of same. 



An erect shrub, with alternate, cordate leaves hoary 

 beneath, and small, dioecious, greenish-yellow flowers, in 

 axillary, peduncled, globose heads. 



