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Timber 



are hollowed out of single trees (Beddome, FL Sylv. p. 399). 



Fruit eaten by the Natives as a vegetable in curries, &c. ; 

 and the seeds are also roasted and eaten. Ceylon (Macmillan, 

 Trop, PL & Gard. p. 128). 



Propagated by seed and apart from the uses mentioned the 



tree may be recommended for ornament and shade. 



. Urkra, Gaud. 



Urera obovata, Bentli, ; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 2, p. 257. 



Yernac. name, — Esinagbonom (Lagos, Lamborn). 



Lagos, Abeokuta in S- Nigeria, and also known from Sierra 



Leone. 



The leaves, which are highly urticating are macerated in 

 water and the aqueous extract taken as a cure for dysentery, 

 Lagos (Lamborn, Herb. Kew). 



A dioecious climbing shrub. 

 Var. Quintasii, Engl. ; Ic. p. 258. 

 Cameroons and Princes Island. 

 Fish-snares made from the bast fibre. 



BoEHMERiA, Jacq. 

 Boehmeria nivea, Hook & Arn. in Bot. Beech. Voy, p. 214, 



Herbaceous perennial ; stems 3-6 ft. Leaves broadly ovate, 

 serrate 3-6 in. across, green, scabrid above, white-downy below ; 

 petioles long — 6 in,, branching near the base of the blade into 

 3 prominent hairy, brown midribs on the under side— less so 

 on the upper side, from which less prominent ribs branch off 

 at an angle of about 45° and again from these finer veins arise 

 at right angles or nearly so. Inflorescence paniculate, bearing 

 many almost sessile clusters of nettle-Hke flowers. 



III. — Jacquin, Hort. Bot. Vindob. t. 166 {Urtica nivea); 

 Hooker/ Kew Journ. Bot, iii. 1851, t. 8; Weddell, Monogr, 

 Urticaceae^t. 11, S. 10-17; Wight, Ic. PI. Ind. Or. ii. t. 608 

 (Urtica tenacissima); Vidal, Fi. For, FiHp. t. 89c; Christy, New 

 Comm. PL & Drugs, No. 7, 1884, p. 38 ; Journ. Agric. Hort. 

 Soc. India, viii. 1890, t. 2; Agric. Gaz. N. S. Wales, ix. 1898, 

 p. 1296 ; xviii. 1907, p. 744 (field of Ramie at Wollongbur Farm) ; 

 Agric. Ledger, No. 15, 1898, t, I; Tropenpfl. x, 1906, p. 82; 

 Queensland Agric. Journ. xviii. 1907, p. 28, t. 5 (field of Ramie 

 in Rhodesia) ; t. 6 ; Natal Agric. Journ. x. 1907, p. 1527 (Ramie 

 at Bayre's Drift) ; Agric. Journ. India, 1907, t, 1 ; Agric. Col. 

 ii. 1908, t. 4, 



Vernac. name. — Tchou Ma (China, Morris, Watt) ; China 



Grass, Rhea ; Chinese Grass Cloth Fibre. 



Native of China. Cultivated in temperate and the cooler 

 parts of some troi)ical countries, including Japan, Formosa, 



