The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . erousspecies distributed throughout the tropicsand subtropics of both hemispheres. Theyare herbaceous plants or shrubs, closelyallied to true nettles (Urfica),but differingfrom them in not having stinginghairs. Themale and female flowers are produced inseparate spikes on the same plant: themales having a four-parted calyx and fourstamens, the females a tubular calyxdivided into four teeth at the top, and aslender style with hairs along one side.Several of the specie
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The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . erousspecies distributed throughout the tropicsand subtropics of both hemispheres. Theyare herbaceous plants or shrubs, closelyallied to true nettles (Urfica), but differingfrom them in not having stinginghairs. Themale and female flowers are produced inseparate spikes on the same plant: themales having a four-parted calyx and fourstamens, the females a tubular calyxdivided into four teeth at the top, and aslender style with hairs along one side.Several of the species yield valuable fibres.The most interesting of them is B. nivea, the Tchou-ma of the Chinese, the Rheeaof Assam, and the Chinese Grass-clothplant of English writers. It is a smallshrubby plant about three or four feet 153 Wfyz Erfatfurg al 23fltang. [boje high, throwing up numerous straightshoots, which are about as thick as thelittle finger and. covered with short softhairs. Its leaves grow upon long hairyfootstalks, and are broadly heart-shaped, about six inches long by four broad, ter-minating in a long slender point, and. BShmeria nivea. having their edges cut like a saw. Theyare of a deep green colour on the upperside, but covered on the under side with adense coating of white down, which givesthem an appearance, like that of frostedsilver. The beautiful fabric known inEngland as Grass-cloth, and rivallingthe best French cambric in softness andfineness of texture, is manufactured fromthe fibre obtained from the inner bark ofthis shrub, which is a native of China andSumatra, and has long been cultivated inthose countries and also in India, where ithas recently been recognised as identicalwith the Bheea of Assam. The Chinesebestow an immense amount of care andlabour upon its cultivation and the prepa-ration of its fibre; they obtain threecrops of the stems annually, the secondbeing considered the best. To obtain thefibre the bark is stripped off in two longpieces and carefull