2. Gibabdiuu.] 62. URTICACEJE. [ 3. Bcehmebia. 



A sufiruticose herb 4-6 ft. high covered all over with 

 stout stinging bristles, with coarsely lobed and serrate leaves 

 4-8" long and broad, and clustered flowers, the M. mostly in 

 sub-cylindric spiciform cymes from the lower axils, the 

 F. in somewhat reaiform compact panicles from the upper 

 axils. 



Chota Nagpur, Train. Fls., Fr., in the cold season. 



"The bark abounds in fine, white, glossy, silk-like, strong fibres." 

 Roxburgh. 



3. Boehmeria, Jacq. 



ShrubB or small trees with opp. or alt.- toothed leaves 

 S-nerved at the base and flowers in clusters which are 

 axillary or spiked or the spikes panicied. Sep. 3-5 in M., 

 calyx tubular 2-4-toothed in th9 F. Stigma filiform per- 

 sistent. 



L. tery long, narrow-lanceolate . • .1. macrophylla. 

 L. broadly ovate or elliptic . . . .2. scabrella. 



1. B. macn Dhylla, Bon. 



A large shrub easily recognized by its long opposite 

 narrow serrulate leaves and globose clusters of flowers in long 

 drooping spikes. 



Deep shady ravines in Saranda, very rare. Fls. Sept. 



Twigs strigoae. L. 6'' by 1'' to 15* by 3j'', strongly 3-nerved, candate, 

 reticulate nervulea depressed above raised beneath. Petiole f-3\ Spikes 

 about as long as the leaves. 



2. B. scabrella. Gaud. Syn. B. plafcyphylla, Don. var. 

 Bcabrella, WeddP 



• Fide Bengal Plan+a, but the Saranda form is rather B. platyphyila 

 var 9- of Weddel's monograph, and var. macros fcacbya of Eew Herb. 

 Weddel's var. macrostachya has pendulous spikes. Tbe very rugose 

 leaved form (scabrella of C B. Clarke) is ch icily confined to Parasnath. 



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