138. 
Plants of the Punjab. 
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Herps, Ereor, with Opposite STIPULATE SimpLe LEAVES. 
Urtica parviflora, 
Berain, shishona. 
URvIcCACE. 
F. B. I. v. 548. 
Himalaya, 
5-12,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Urtica dioica, 
The English Nettle, 
Bichua. 
UrRTICACES. 
F. B. I. v. 548. 
Salt Range. 
Himalaya, 
7-10,000 ft. 
Simla, Hattu 
(Collett). 
Pilea peploides, 
Unvricacn”. 
F. B. I. v. 554. 
Upper Himalaya, 
Lahul. 
Pilea umbrosa, 
URTICACE A. 
F: B. I. v. 556. 
Himalaya, 
4-9,000 ft. 
Simla, in shady 
places (Collett). 
Lpar Maratns TootTHED. 
PETALS NONE. 
medium size, root perennial, stem annual, slender 
but little branched, with blunt angles, covered with sting- 
ing hairs; leaves 2-4 by 1-23 in., ovate or lanceolate, 
long-pointed, wrinkled, teeth small, irregularly jagged, 
stalk 1-2 in. long, stipules united, ovate-oblong ; flowers 
minute, green, in slender spreading axillary and terminal 
branching pyramidal clusters, male and females on the 
same plant and like those of the last species. 
like the last, but often stouter, stem grooved, teeth 
large, regular, stipules ununited, male and female flowers 
on separate plants. 
small, stem and branches 3-5 in., tufted, succulent, 
sinooth ; leaves $-? in. long, round, ovate, tip rounded, 
margin toothed above the middle, or entire, 3-nerved, 
base wedge-shaped, stalk }-? im. tong, stipules minute ; 
flowers minute, green, sessile in clusters on the slender 
branches of stalked spreading axillary racemes 2-4 in. 
long, male and female flowers on the same plant, male 
sepals 4, stamens 4, anthers white, female sepals 3, un- 
equal, stigma of a tuft of hairs ; carpel nearly round, minute, 
smooth. 
large, hairy, leaves 3-5 by 2-3} in., ovate, 
toothed, base wedge-shaped, tip tail-like, sharp-pointed, 
stalk 1-3 in., stipules nearly persistent, large, flowers 
as in the last species, but dorsal female sepal much the 
longest ; achenes minute, 3; in., pale, with a raised intra- 
marginal ridge. 
broadly 
