DEBREGEASIA.] URTICACE^E. 135 



2. D. hypoeluca, Wedd. Monogr. 463, t. 15 ; F. B. I. V, 59, 

 Watt E. D. ; Comm. Prod. Ind. 160 ; Kanyilal For. Fl (ed. 2) 

 383 ; Gamble Man. 660 ; Colleti FL SimL 468. D. bicolor, Wedd. 

 Brandis For. Fl. 405. Urtica bicolor, Jtoxb. FL Ind. Hi, 589; 

 Bcehuieria 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 J-l in. ; stipules 2-fid. Flowers usually 

 dioecious, arranged in rounded sessile or subsessile axillary heads. 

 MALE FLOWERS : Sepals 4, shorter than the bracteoles, white- 

 tomentose outside. Stamens 4. FEM. 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. DISTRIB. : 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, petloled, crenatc, 3-nerved, white- 

 (tomentose beneath ; stipules connate, intrapetiolar. Floivers minute, 

 monoecious or sometimes androgynous, in small cymose globose 

 heads. MALE flowers : Perianth 5- part., valvate, Stamens 5, 

 inflexecl in bud. Pistillode woolly. FEM. flowers : Perianth none. 

 Ovary straight, stigma penicillate, ovule erect. Fruit an ovoid 

 achene, with a crustacecms 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. Ser. 4, i, 103 ; Royle 111. 333 ; 

 Brandis For. Fl. 406 ; Ind. Trees 619 ; F. B. I. F, 592 ; Wvtt E. D. ; 

 Comm. Prod. Ind. 163 ; Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2), 384 ; Gamble 

 Man. 660. Boehmeria frutescens, Don Prod. 59 (not of Thunb.) 

 Vern. Pua, poi (Hind.), dhaul-kdgsJii (Dehra-Dun) Nepal Hemp. 



