VKTICACE2E. 



matic papillae on one side only. The fruit is an achene, included in 

 the persistent calyx, and its crustaceous or nucamentaceous pericarp 

 contains an albuminous seed like that of the Nettles. Boehmeria 

 comprises shrubs and undershrubs, with opposite alternate leaves, 

 homomorphous or dimorphous, symmetrical or unsymmetrical at the 

 base, dentate, 1 sprinkled with inconspicuous punctiform cystoliths, 

 petiolate and accompanied by free or connate stipules, usually 



Bah meria nivea. 





Fig. 541. 

 Flowering branch (i). 



caducous. The flowers are grouped in glomerules, accompanied by 

 short scarious bracts ; they are axillary, solitary or more frequently 

 collected into ramified spikes or cymes. This genus contains some 

 forty-five species, 2 inhabiting both tropical and still more extra- 

 tropical regions, all over the world. 



> Some are more or less deeply bilobate in a 2 Sw., Prodr., 34.— W., Spec, 340.— H. B. K., 



species which owes its name to this fact, and has Nov. Gen. et Spec, ii. 31.— Don, Prodr. FJ. 

 been made the type of a genus Splitgerbera. Nepal., 60.— Pkesl, Bot. Bern., 110.-E>'dl., 



