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TAB. LXIX. 
CHIRITA URTICAEFOLIA. 
1. Chirita urticefolia DC IX. p. 268. 
Herbacea caulescens. Folia petiolata elliptica acuminata serrata (aliquando crenata) supra sparsim. subtus secus 
venas, pilosa. Pedunculi axillares terminalesque 1-vel pauci-flori parum pilosi, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis glabratis aut pa- 
rum pilosis. Calyx viridis aut vix corolloideus setoso-villosus alte divisus segmentis lanceolatis acuminatis. Corolla mag- 
na tubo campanulaceo, extus pilosa, purpureo-rosea aliquando tubo flavido, casu omnino alba. Ovarium fere glabrum, stylo 
aliquando parum glanduloso-piloso. Capsula 5-6 uncias longa. 
Hab, Tn montibus Himalaya, provinciarum Sikkim et Bhotan ad 5000-9000 ped. alt. 
Distributio Indica. In Nepalia. 
Vidi specimina viva spontanea numerosa. 
This species is easily distinguished when alive from C. polyneura (No. 5 infra) by its larger flowers which are reddish purple 
in the mouth ; in C. polyneura the flowers are bluish purple in the mouth. 
In the dried state C. urticwfolia and C. polyneura have been much intermixed. C. urticwfolia usually has the serratures of 
the leaves acute while in C. polyneura the leaves are commonly but lightly crenate. But some specimens of ©. polyneura have the leave: 
more acutely crenated than some specimens of C. urticwefolia. The easiest distinction I have found is in the bracts on the -peduncle, 
which are very hispid pilose in C. polyneura, while in C. urticwfolia they are glabrous, or at least much less hairy than either the leaves 
or the calyx. 
EXPLICATIO TABULAz LXIX. 
Planta ex tabula 50 Wallichii (Plante Asiatice rariores) exscripta, Corolla fissa et explanata, ex eadem tabula exscripta. 
1, Stamina. 
2, Pistillum a facie et a latere visum, 
unioris horizontalis sectio. 
