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in height, the young shoots pubescent or puberulous, the stems 
lender, smooth, brown ; leaves alternately smaller or almost equally 
arge, ovate-oblong to elliptically oblong, on a slender petiole vary- 
ng in length from 2-3 lin. to 2 and even 3 in., rounded or 
somewhat cordate at the base, acuminate, 4-8 in. long or shorter, 
ves or above the scars of the fallen ones; fruiting perianth 
broadly elliptical or roundish, with a truncate border, minutely 
pubescent. 
AB.—Frequent along choungs in the tropical forests from Arracan, the 
Pegu Yomah and Martaban down to Tenasserim, up to 2,000 ft.. elevation ; freely 
springing up in toungyas cut in tropical forests.—Fl. Apr-May; Fr. May- 
une.—l.—SS.—Metam. SiS. 
ao liber of this, and of most other Boehmerias, yields a strong. 
2. B. Helferi, Bl.—Monoecious, the young branchlets ap- 
pressed-pubescent and soon glabrescent ; leaves alternate, somewhat 
unequally large, 3-5 in. long, ovate, cordate or truncate at the base, 
acuminate, on a slender, puberulous, glabrescent petiole 14-3 in. 
long, coarsely serrate, membranous, even, sparingly pilose above, 
beneath along the nerves and veins pubescent-pilose ; stipules 
lanceolate-subulate ; flowers concealed within the numerous, large, 
scarious, brown, obovate, somewhat acute bracts, clustered, the 
clusters unisexual, axillary, confluent; female perianth tubular, 
somewhat ventricose, 2-toothed at the somewhat hairy apex. 
Has.—Tenasserim. 
-B e, Wedd.—Monoecious, the stem herbaceous, 
or more or less wooly at the base, almost glabrous, the branchlets 
puberulous, glabrescent; leaves alternating, equally large, ovate, 
2-4 in. long, acuminate, on a glabrous petiole }-2 in. long, obtuse or 
rounded at the base, membranous, crenate-serrate Trom the middle 
or from lower down, especially above sparingly and minutely pilose, 
even; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, rather persistent; flower- 
clusters axillary, androgynous; female perianth lanceolate, becom- 
ing finally oblong or elliptical, narrowed upwards and 2-toothed at 
the minutely hairy mouth, enclosing 2 more or less adnate ovaries ; 
stigmas 2, as long-as the ovary.—(After Weddel.) 
Has.—Moulmein. . 
4. Bi diffusa, Wedd.—A leaf-shedding, small, meagre shrub, 
about 2-4 ft. high, the branches appressed-stiff-hairy ; leaves 
_ large, tolerably equally or unequally ovate-lanceolate to oblong- 
