424 URTICACER. [ Boehmeria, — 
~ Janceolate, 2-4 (occasionally up to 6) in. long, long-acuminate, on 
a slender appressed-hispid petiole 3 lin. to 14 in. long, acute or 
obtuse at the base, membranous, sharply crenate-serrate, even or 
wrinkled, on both sides (more so beneath) appressed-rough-hirsute ; 
stipules linear-lanceolate, deciduous; flowers minute, sessile, form- 
ing globular small clusters in the axils of the leaves; fruiting 
rianth compressed, lanceolate to obovate, 2-4-toothed at the 
somewhat hairy apex ; stigmas twice as long as the perianth. 
Has.—Frequent in the mixed and open forests, all over Burma from Ava down 
to Upper Tenasserim, up to 3,000 ft. elevation.—Fl. Fr. June-March.—l— 
SS.=siS. Metam. Dil. CaS. 
5. B. macrophylla, Don.; Brand. For. Fl., 403.—A shrub, 
the ends of the branchlets minutel pubescent ; leaves opposite, 
lanceolate, on a pubescent glabrescent petiole 1-24 in. long (those 
of the alternating leaves about half the length), very long-acumi- 
nate, rounded or obtuse at the base, 3-nerved, 5-7 in. long, minutely : 
serrate, thick membranous, pustulate-wrinkled (the pustules per- 
forated), glabrous above, beneath minutely roughish pubescent 
along the nerves and veins and pale-coloured ; flowers minute, 
sessile, in sessile globular heads of 2-3 lin. in diameter, forming 
a slender, appressed-hispid, more or less interrupted spike in the 
axils of the leaves and shorter than them; fruiting perianth 
narrowly obovate-cuneate, compressed, ciliate, abruptly narrowed 
into a short 2-4-toothed neck. 
Haz.—Ava hills, 
or spurious panicles on axillary young shoots; fruiting perianth 
elliptical, obovate or roundish, hispid from short stiff hairs. 
Has.—Frequent in Chittagong; Ava.—Fr. Feb, 
7. B. Hamilto 
(15—20+ (?) +4—4) or large shrub, the stems quite glabrous, the 
ee. 
‘leaf-buds slightly pubescent; leaves opposite, ovate-oblong to ovate- 
lanceolate, acute or bluntish at the base, on a glabrous petiole 1-13 
