/\W///<.m'.] cxxxvi. URTICACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 577 



uivea. Linn. Sp. PI. ; Jacq. Sort. Vind. t. 166 ; Wall. Cat. 4606. U. 

 tenacissima, It<\rb. Fl. Ind. ni. 590; Wight Ic. t. 688. U.candicans, Burm. 

 Fl. Ind. 297 ; Blume Bijd. 503. U. utilis, Hort. Procris nivea, Gaud. I. c. 

 499. 



Cultivated in the warmer parts of INDIA, especially Assam and Bengal. DISTRIB. 

 Native of the Malay Islands, China and Japan. 



A shrub with herbaceous shoots ; branches and petioles softly hairy. Leaves 

 3-6 in. ; above subscabrid, beneath white with densely appressed hairs; base cuneate 

 or subcordate ; teeth triangular often up-curved ; petiole l|-4 in. ; stipules subulate, 

 deciduous. Panicles shorter than the petiole, sessile; fern, upper. Styles exserted, 

 hairy. Weddell distinguishes as . candicans the form under this name, and that of 

 tenacissima, by the more robust habit, larger longer petioled concolorous leaves. 



5. B. rugulosa, Wedd. in Ann. Re. Nat. Ser. 4, i. 200; Monogr. 373; 

 DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 207 ; dioecious, leaves alternate coriaceous elliptic- 

 lanceolate acuminate crenulate strongly 3-nerved, above smooth or rugulose 

 g-la.brous, beneath pale finely velvety-pubescent, stipules connate, clusters 

 in simple spikes each, with a cordate bract, fern, short simple pendulous, 

 fern, perianth elliptic compressed ciliate. Brand. For. Fl. 403 ; Blume 

 Mus. Bot. ii. 212. B. nervosa, Madden in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xvii. i. 587. 

 Urtica rugosula, Watt. Cat. 4597. U. venosa, Wall. Cat. 460 B. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Garwhal to Bhotan, alt. 2-4000 ft., WallicJi, 

 &c. 



A small tree, branchlets robust, glabrous, petioles and leaves beneath hoary or 

 yellowish white, bark wrinkled pale. Leaves 3-5 in., teeth obtuse, nerves penni- 

 nervuled, nervules anastomosing; stipules ovate; petiole ^ 1 in., stout. Fl. clusters 

 pisiform ; receptacle hirsute. Achenes elliptic, stipitate, acute at both ends, ven- 

 tricose. Dr. King sends as var. tennis a Sikkim plant with thinner ovate coarsely 

 serrate perfectly glabrous leaves 3-5 in. long ; it is in male fl. only. Clarke gathered 

 the same at 7000 ft. elevation, and refers it to malabarica, but its inflorescence is 

 spicate. It appears to me to be quite a different species. 



ft Leaves opposite (and alternate in B. platyphylla). 



6. B. macrophylla ? Don Prodr. 60; monoscious, leaves opposite 

 lanceolate caudate-acuminate serrulate base acute above sparsely hispid 

 rugulose and pustular, beneath softly or hispidly pubescent or glabrate, 

 spikes elongate pendulous leafless simple or branched below, clusters with 

 lanceolate bracts, fruit obovate-cuneate compressed ciliate with a 2-4- toothed 

 neck. Wedd. Monogr. 375, t. 11, f. 1-9; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 209; Brand. 

 For. FL 403; Kurz For. Fl ii. 424; Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 217. B.pendnli- 

 flora, Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, i. 199. Urtica penduliflora, Wall. Cat. 

 4595. U. angustifolia, Ham. mss., and U. macrostachya, Wall mss., ex 

 Don 1. c. U. pulcherrima, Wall. Cat. 4596. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Kumaon to Mishmi, ascending to 4000 ft. 

 KHASIA MTS., alt. 2-4000 ft. AVA HILLS, Kurz. 



A shrub or small tree ; branchlets stout, obtusely 4-angled, glabrous or strigosp. 

 Leaves 6-12 in., teeth obtuse, pustules on surfaces often perforate; upper surface 

 sometimes bullate, under with deep hollows between the nervules; petiole |-1 in., 

 strigose or glabrous ; stipules lanceolate, midrib hairy. Spikes shorter than or equalling 

 the leaves; clusters globose, i-^ in. diam. 



7. B. Kurzii, Hook. f. ; quite glabrous except the spikes, leaves 

 opposite elliptic-oblong or lanceolate acuminate quite entire subsi'very 

 beneath 3-nerved, spikes very slender simple toineiitose, fruit very minute 



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