128 URTICACES. [ Boramerra. 
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8 BOEHMERIA, Jacq.; Fl. Brit. Ind. V, 575. 
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite or alternate, toothed, 
3-nerved at the base; stipules usually free, deciduous. Flowers 
monececious or dicecious, both sexes in axillary spicate racemed or 
panicled clusters; bracts small, scarious. Man flowers: FPerianth 
3-5-lobed or partite, valvate. Stamens 3-5, inflexed in bud. 
Pistillode clevate or globose. Frm. flowers: . erianth tubular, 
2-4-toothed, angled winged or ventricose in fruit. Ovary included ; 
stigma filiform, persistent, ovule erect. Fruit a crustaceous achene, 
at first closely invested by the perianth, at length free. Seed with 
membranous testa, ablumen copious or scanty, cotyledons ovate.— 
Species about 45, chiefly tropical. 
Leaves all alternate—A tree , : . 1. B. rugulosa. 
Leaves mostly opposite—Shrubs :— 
Leaves lanceolate ; pee up to one inch 
long \ : : 
Leaves broadly ovate or orbicular ; petioles 
exceeding one inch :— 
Female spikes long, aa oe the ter- 
2. B. macrophylla. 
minal leaves . 5 . 3. B. platyphylla. 
Female spikes short, erect, not overtopping 
the terminal leaves . : . 4. B. scabrella. 
1. B.rugulosa, Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, 1, 200; Brandis 
For. Fil. 403; Ind. Trees 617; F. B. 1. .V, 577; Kanjilal For. Fl. 
(ed. 2), 380; Camble Man. 657. B. nervosa, Madden in Journ. 
As. Soc. Beng. xvii, pt. 1, 587.—Vern Geti, genthi (Dehra Dun). 
A small or medium-sized evergreen tree ; young parts and under surface 
of leaves hoary; branches terete; bark brown, deeply fissured.~ 
Leaves alternate, coriaceous, 3-5 in. long, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, 
crenulate, rugulose and dark-green above, paler or velvety pubescent 
beneath strongly 3-nerved, the intervening veins and veinlets con- 
spicuously anastomosing ; petiole 3-1 in. long : ; stipules ovate, connate. 
Flowers dicecious, in sessile globose clusters forming simple axillary 
spikes 3-8 in. long, each cluster in the axil of a cordate bract. 
Dehra Dun, in shady ravines and eastwards along the Sub-Himalayan. 
tracts. Flowers in the rainy season. Distrrp.: Outer Himalayan 
ranges from the Sutlej to Bhutan, ascending to 4,000 ft.; also in 
Upper Burma. 
