366 CHOR PUTTA, OR SURAT. 
I propose to take measures for collecting as much of it as I can 
get prepared. The cost will be from three to four annas a seer. 
This might be accompanied by samples of the Bon Rheea, Bon 
Surat, and other fibres, all prepared to resemble the Petersburgh 
Hemp. If for these wild fibres we had a good market, the 
frontier tribes, Singphoos, &c., who understand how to prepare 
them, might be induced to assist in supplying them.” The 
specimens which the Author had referred to in the above com- 
munication were sent under the name of Bon Rheea from India. 
The two plants, Bon Rheea and Mesakhee, may be identical or 
nearly allied species, but this cannot be ascertained without 
authentic Botanical specimens. Major Hannay distinguishes 
the two kinds—the Bon Rheea being his No. 2, and Mesakhee 
No. 6—in his paper in the Journ. Agri-Hortic. Soc.,’ vii, p. 215. 
Cxor Porta, or Surat, Urtica crenulata (Urticee). 
This plant is a native of the hills and valleys on the east of 
Bengal. Dr. Roxburgh obtained it first near Luckipore. It 
has since been found near the Pundua Hills. Major Hannay 
enumerates it among the fibrous plants of Assam. It has an 
erect shrubby stem, with oblong acute leaves, having the margins 
crenulate or slightly dentate, both sides alike the hark armed 
with acute burning hairs. The sting produces great pain, 
extending to the armpit; abates after two or three days, but 
does not disappear entirely for nine days. Major Hannay says 
of this and another, which he enumerates as Nos. 3 and 4, and 
calls gigantic stinging Nettles, that they afford a quantity of 
fine white fibre, but apparently of no great strength, and, by 
report, not very lasting. Some of the Hill tribes use the fibre 
for fabricating coarse cloths. 
Horoo Surat of Assam, or Netrenerry Nertiz, Urtica 
heterophylla (Urticee). 
The Horoo Surat of Assam, said to be the Urtica heterophylla 
of Dr. Roxburgh, is the most widely diffused of the large Indian 
Nettles, inasmuch as it is found in the Southern Concan, 
