i 
“Desrecasia.] | URTICACEZ. 135 
2. D. hypoeluca, Wedd. Monogr. 465, t. 15; F. B. I. V, 59, 
Watt E. D.; Comm. Prod. Ind. 160 ; Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2) 
383 ; Gamble Man. 660 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 468. -D. bicolor, Wedd. 
Brandis For. Fl. 405. Urtiea bicolor, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 589; 
Beehmeria salicifolia, Don Prod. 60.—Vern. Sansdru (Dehra Dun). 
A large shrub with a thir grey bark; branches and leaves beneath 
clothed with snow-white wool. Leaves somewhat coriaceous, 3-6 
in. long, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, serrulate, 
scabrid with minute round elevated white dots on the upper surface, 
densely clothed beneath with white tomentum; base rounded or 
acute; main nerves 3 from the base, and with 3-5 pairs from the 
midrib above; petioles 4-1 in.; stipules 2-fid. Flowers usually 
dicecious, arranged in rounded sessile or subsessile axillary heads. 
MALE FLOWERS: Sepals 4, shorter than the bracteoles, white- 
tomentose outside. Stamens 4. Frm. flowers: Perianth tubular, 
narrowed to a minute 4-toothed mouth. 
Dehra Dun and Siwalik range in the Bijnor district. Flowers in March 
and April and the fruit ripens June-Aug. Drsrris.: Sub-tropical 
and Temp. Himalaya from the Sarda river in Kumaon westwards 
to the Indus, up to 6,000 ft.; also on the Punjab Salt range and 
extending to Afghanistan, W. Asia and Abyssinia. The fibre of the 
stems is much used for making ropes. The fruit becomes yellow 
when ripe and is eaten. 
12. MAOUTIA, Wedd. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v, 592. 
Shrubs. Leaves alternate, petioled, crenate, 3-nerved, white- 
tomentose beneath ; stipules connate, intrapetiolar. Flowers minute, 
moncecious or sometimes androgynous, in small cymose globose 
heads. Mate flowers: Perianth 5-part., valvate, Stamens 5, 
inflexed in bud. Pistillode woolly. Frm. flowers: Perianth none. 
Ovary straight, stigma penicillate, ovule erect. Fruit an ovoid 
achene, with a crustaceous or fleshy pericarp. Seed with mem- 
branous testa, cotyledons elliptic or oblong. Species 8, in Trop. 
Asia and Polynesia. 
M. Puya, Wedd. in Ann. Sc-Nat. Sér. 4, i, 193 ; Royle Ill. 333 ; 
Brandis For. Fl. 406 ; Ind. Trees 619 ; F. B. I. V, 592 ; Watt B. D.; 
Comm. Prod. Ind. 163; Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2), 384; Gamble 
Man. 660. Bcehmeria frutescens, Don Prod. 59 (not of Thunb.) 
Vern. Pua, poi (Hind.), dhaul-kdgshi (Debra-Dun)—Nepal Hemp. » 
