URTICACEAE. 



Determined by Camillo Schneider. 



BOEHMERIA Jacq. 



Boehmeria nivea Gaudichaud^ in Freycinet, Voy. Bot. 499 (1826). — 

 Hooker & Arnott, Bot. Voy. Beechey, 214 (1836). — Hooker in 

 Hooker's Jour. Bot. & Kew Gard. Misc. III. 315, t. 8 (1851). — Blume, 

 Mus. Bot. Uigd.-Bat. II. 210 (1856). — Weddel in Ann. Sci. Nat. 

 s6r. 4, I. 200 (1854); in Arch. Mus. Paris, IX. 380, t. 11, fig. 10-17 

 {Monog. Urticac.) (1856); in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 1, 206 

 (1859). — Bentham, Fl. Hongk. 331 (1861). — Miquel in Ann. Mus. 

 Lugd.-Bat. III. 131 (1867); Prol. Fl. Jap. 295 (1867). — Brandis, 

 Forest Fl. Ind. 402 (1874). — Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sci. 

 St. Petershourg, XXII. 249 (1876); in Mel. Biol. IX. 638 (1877).— 

 Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 576 (1888). — Dippel, Handh. Laubholzk. 

 II. 4 (1892). — Koehne, Deutsche Dendr. 140 (1893). — Wright in 

 Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 486 (1894). — Diels in Bot. Jahrh. XXIX. 303 

 (1900). — Schneider, III. Handh. Laubholzk. I. 246, fig. 159 a-h 

 (1904). — Matsumura & Hayata in Jour. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, XXII. 385 

 {Enum. PI. Formos.) (1906). — Koorders, Exkursionsfl. Java, II. 143 

 (1912).— Diels in Not. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh, VII. 269 (1912), 342 

 {PL Chin. Forrest.) (1913). 



Urtica nivea Linnaeus, Spec. 985 (1753). — Jacquin, Hort. Vindoh. 11.78, t. 

 166 (1772). 



Western Hupeh : wild and abundant around Ichang, 300-900 m., 

 July 1907 (No. 3759). Kiangsi: Kuling, rocky places, abundant, 

 alt. 1200 m., August 1, 1907 (No. 1518; bush 0.9-1.8 m. tall). 

 Yunnan: " TaU Range, Lat. 25'' 40' N., alt. 8000-9000 ft.," June 

 11, 1896, G. Forrest (No. 4782). 



This plant is much cultivated in Szech'uan for its fibre, which is an important 

 article of commerce in the west and in other warm parts of China. Some account 

 of the industry will be found in my A Naturalist in Western China, II. 82 (1913) 

 and a picture of the plant under No. 0173 of the collection of my photographs. 



E. H. W. 



^ Gaudichaud writes: Boehmeria (Procris) nivea; hence he is the first author of 

 the combination. 



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