548 cxxxvi. URTiCACEJi. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Urtica. 



U. pilulifera, Linn., the Roman nettle, a common European weed, occurs occa- 

 sionally near Simla and elsewhere near houses in the hills. 



1. U. hyperborea, Jacquem. mss. in Wedd. Monoor. 68; DC. Prodr. 

 xvi. i. 45 ; a low tufted uiidershrub pubescent between the small stinging 

 hairs, leaves subsessile broadly coarsely toothed or ovate-cordate serrate, 

 stipules in opposite intrapetiolar pairs, cymes small androgynous, inner 

 fruiting sepals not armed hispid larger than the achene. 



WESTERN TIBET, alt. 12-17,500 ft., Jacquemont, Falconer, &c. EASTERN TIBET, 

 north of Sikkim, alt. 16-17,000 ft., J. D. H. 



Roots stout, woody j stems stout, ascending, densely tufted, 6-18 in., woody 

 below. Leaves 12 in., glandular-puberulous beneath. Cymes very short, crowded. 



2. U. parviflora, Eoxl. Fl. Intf. iii. 581 ; herbaceous, slender, 

 moncEcious, glabrous or pubescent, stinging hairs copious stiff, leaves ovate 

 or ovate-cordate or -lanceolate acuminate doubly crenate or serrate, stipules 

 connate, cymes slender effuse axillary and forming an erect terminal 

 pyramidal panicle, inner fruiting sepals rounded twice as long as the outer. 

 Wedd. Monoffr. 85; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 55; Wight Ic. t. 690. U. ardens, 

 Link. Eiium. ii. 385. U. himalayensis, Kuntli fy BoucUe in Ann. Sc. Nat. 

 Ser. 3, vii. 182. U. virulenta, Wall. Cat. 4586. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 5-12,000 ft., from Kashmir to Mishmi. NILGHIBI 

 HILLS, at Ootacamurid, Foulkes. 



Moot perennial ; stem 3-5 ft., slender, sparingly branched, obtusely angled. 

 Leaves 1-4 in., membranous, wrinkled; petiole J 2 in.; stipules ovate-oblong, 

 entire, puberulous. Cymes shortly peduncled, lower males moie simple; male and 

 fruiting sepals hispid. 



3. U. dioica, Linn. Sp. PI. 984; herbaceous, monoecious or 

 dioscious, pubescent, stinging hairs copious, leaves ovate-cordate oblong or 

 lanceolate serrate, stipules usually free, cymes unisexual rarely androgynous, 

 inner fruiting sepals longer than the outer. Wedd. Monoqr. 77 ; DC. Prodr. 

 xvi. i. 50 ; Eeiclib. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 654 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 1146. 



N.VV. HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir and the Salt Range to Simla, alt. 8-10,700 ft. 

 WESTERN TIBET, alt. 8-12,000 ft. DISTRIB. Westward to the Atlantic. 



Habit of U. parviflora, but differing in the free stipules. The common English 

 Nettle. 



26. FXiEURlTA, Gaud. 



Annual herbs, with stinging hairs. Leaves alternate, toothed, 3-nerved ; 

 stipules connate in opposite pairs, or 0. Flowers mono- or dioecious, 

 clustered, clusters in solitary axillary cymes or spikes, unisexual orandrogy- 

 'nous. MALE PL. Sepals 4-5, ovate -lanceolate, subvalvate or imbricate. 

 Stamens 4-5, inflexed in bud. Pistillode globose or clavate. FEM. FL. 

 Perianth cupular, 4-lobed, or sepals 4, imbricate, equal or very unequal, 

 posticous hooded, anticous minute or 0. Ovary oblique ; style obliquely 

 ovoid or linear, at length hooked, with sometimes 2 basal arms ; ovule 

 erect. Achene oblique, compressed, exserted, membranous. Seed nearly 

 exalbuminous, cotyledons broad. Species 8, Tropical, and South African. 



Dr. King has sent me (from Herb. Hort. Calcutt.), as Pilea umbrosa, what is, I 

 think, a species of Fleurya with tomeutose branches, leaves aud cymes; it is from 

 Sikkim, in male fl. only. 



F. interrupta, Gaud, in Freyc. Toy. Bot. 497, t. 83 ; stinging hairs 

 scattered, leaves ovate acuminate crenate or serrate base subcordate trun- 



