3. Bohxxsia.] 62. URTICACEJE. 



A shrub 4-10 ft. with sub-strigose branches large elliptic 

 or ovate obtuse to acuminate leaves 4-8'' by 3-6* and minute 

 clusters of flowers in erect or inclined spikes attaining 1 ft. 

 in length. 



Bavines on the Porahat plateau as well as in Saranda, not common, 

 ". in H&z&ribagh. Fls., Fr. 8ept.-Jany. 



L. opposite 3-nerved scaberolons both sides, crenate-dentate, dotted 

 with cystolitha. Base obtuse to sab-cordate. Petiole 2-6''. 



Yield* a good fibre. 



The Faraanath plant has the leaves very areolate beneath and rela- 

 tively ahorter petioles. 



4. Pouzoizia, Gaud. 



Pouzolzia differs from Bcehmeria by the leaves being 

 usually (always in our species) entire and the style articulate 

 to the ovary and deciduous. The M. sepals have often 

 abruptly inflexed tips, so that the buds appear abruptly trun- 

 cate or shouldered. 



1. P. indiea, Gaud, is a perennial herb with creeping rootstock and 

 long weak branches found on moist banks and sides of rivers. It has 

 ecabrid stems and alt. small basally 3-nerved leaves (with only 1 pair 

 above the banal) and minute axillary greenish fls. M. buds globose and 

 fcpienlate, str%ose. 



SL P.pentandra, Benn., is suffruticose with trailing stems and 

 ascending often bright red slender branches and numerous close alt. 

 email ovate floral leaves barely 5 ' long upwards. M. buds truncate. The 

 acbene is samaroid with two lateral concave wings and a dorsal fleshy 

 lobe. Biver banks. 



3. P. aurieulata, Wight, is a tall erect perennial with alt. leaves 

 %&* long, several-nerved above the base and buds not truncate. 



4. P. hirta, Bassk., is a slender sub-erect or decumbent herb or 

 snbMBcandeut, with opp. leaves and truncate buds. Both the last are very 



Fam. 63. ULMACEJB. 



Trees or shrubs without milky juice with alt. simple dis- 

 tichous stipulate leaves. Fls. small 1-2-sexual with a 4-9- 

 lobed perianth. St. as many as and opposite to the perianth 



