Boehmeria. | URTICACER. 425 
HaB.—Frequent in the tropical forests, especially along choungs of the 
eastern slopes of the Pegu Yomah and of Martaban east of Tounghoo.—Fl. Feb.- 
March.—s.—88.=Si tam. 
Remarks.—Strong cordage can be obtained from the liber. 
POUZOLZIA, Gand. 
Flowers monoecious, rarely dioecious. Males: perianth 4- or 
5-lobed or -parted, rarely 3-parted, the lobes ovate and acuminate, 
valvate in the bud. Stamens as many as perianth-lobes. Ovary 
imentary. Females: perianth tubular, often ovate and nerved, 
2-4-toothed at the contracted mouth. Ovary enclosed, usually free, 
rarely more or less adherent or adnate to the perianth, sessile, 
apiculate, with a solitary, erect or ascending ovule ; stigma filiform, 
jointed with the apex of the ovary, villous at one side, deciduous. 
Achene almost conform with the ovary, surrounded by the marces- 
cent almost unchanged perianth or its enlarged wings or ribs, the 
pericarp crustaceous, glossy.—Shrubs, undershrubs or herbs, with 
ternating or rarely opposite, entire or toothed, 3-nerved leaves. 
Stipules free, often persistent. Flowers minute, in axillary clusters, 
or the clusters arranged in spikes. 
Prostrate or ascending undershrub, the leaves membranous, entire . P. Indica. 
Shrub, the leaves serrate, ¢ eous Gc cece ee + 
1. P. viminea, Wedd.; Brand. For. Fl., 405.—An evergreen, 
large, branched shrub, often growing out into a small tree 12-15 ft. 
igh, the branchlets appressed-pubescent and more or less rough; 
leaves alternating and distichous, from ovate to ovate-oblong and 
lanceolate, obtuse or acute at the base, on a 2-5 lin. long petiole, 
3-nerved, acuminate, coarsely serrate, 13-5 in. long, chartaceous, 
above sprinkled with hairs, rough or smooth, beneath (especially 
on the nerves and veins) rough from short hairs; flowers small, 
P ent, in sessile, dense, axillary clusters; male flowers 4- 
androus ; fruiting perianth oblong-ovate, angular or obsoletely 
bordered, almost as long as the stigma. 
Var J: sanguinea proper: leaves larger or smaller, more or 
- less rough or almost aobotb above, almost glabrous or shortly 
pubescent beneath. 
