Leclanthus.] CXXXVI. URTICACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 559 
\ 30. LECANTHUS, Weddell. 
Characters of Elatostema, but leaves opposite. Differs from Pilea in 
the fleshy discoid receptacles. 
XL. Wightii, Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. å, i. 187 ; Monogr. 280, t. 9; 
Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 998. L. peduncularis, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. 
1.164. L. major and L. Wallichii, Wedd. I. c. 187. Elatostema ovatum, 
Wight Ie. t. 1985. E. oppositifolium, Dalz. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. 179 ; 
Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 939. Procris peduncularis, Wall. Cat. 4634 ^ ; 
Royle Ill. t. 83. P. obtusa, Royle I. c. 
. TEMPERATE and SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt, 4-12,000 ft., from Chamba to 
Sikkim and the KnasrA and Naca Hirs. MUNNIPORE, Clarke. Marwa, on 
Mt. Aboo, King. Deccan PENINSULA, on the Ghats, from the Concan southwards. 
CEYLON; Matelle East, Beckett (C.P. 3870).—DrsTRIB. Java, Tropical Africa. 
_ Succulent, decumbent, moncecious or dicecious, very variable in size, from a weak 
little herb 1-2 in. high, with 2 or 3 pairs of small subentire leaves 4-1 in. long 
towards the top of the thread-like stem, to a stout branched herb, 12-18 in. high, 
with numerous pairs of long- or short-petioled leaves coarsely serrate 6 in. long and 
glabrous or sparsely hairy. Leaves membranous, obliquely ovate, obtuse, acute, 
acuminate or caudate, subentire or coarsely toothed, serrate or crenate to the base or 
from one-third to half-way up, 3-nerved and penninerved, base cuneate acute or 
rounded ; petiole 4-3 in., slender ; stipules scarious, entire or toothed. Heads of both 
Sexes peduncled, rarely sessile; peduncle sometimes 10 in. long and very stout; recep- 
tacles flat or turbinate, 1-33 in. diam.; male sepals 4-5; fem. 3, very minute and 
unequal. Achene minute, ovoid, compressed.— Weddell makes two varieties, viz. 
Wallichii, dicecious with acutely serrate leaves; and major (from the Concan) with 
leaves more obtusely serrate and male and fem. fl. in the same head, The most 
puzzling state of this plant is the minute one mentioned above, in which the receptacles 
‘re reduced to 34, in. diam. It occurs at all elevations, but is the only one also at 
great heights, and is found in the Himalaya, Munnipore and the Nilghiris. 
31. PELLIONIA, Gaud. 
Herbs with the alternate leaves and habit of Elatostema, but the male 
Owers are disposed in open or contracted sometimes capituliform cymes 
not seated on a receptacle), and the fem. perianth is longer than the 
Paoip essed tubercled achene.—Species about 15, Eastern Asiatic and 
acific. 
* Leaves serrate. 
l. P. Griffithiana, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 165; branches and 
cymes pubescent, leaves sessile obliquely oblong-lanceolate caudate coarsely 
crenate-serrate apove the entire semicordate base, male cymes long-pedun- 
cled laxly dichotomously branched. 
UPPER Assam; in the Patkoye Mts., Grififh. 
Stems 1-2 ft. and leaves fleshy. Leaves 2-6 in., nerves puberulous beneath. 
Male cymes 1—2 in. diam. ; peduncle 2-3 in.; bracts lanceolate, exceeding the 
9wers; fem. unknown. 
.?. P. heteroloba, Wedd. Monogr. 283, t. 5, f. 11 inf.; DC. Prodr. 
ob: 1. 166; nearly glabrous, dicecious, leaves sessile obliquely elliptic or 
o long acuminate or caudate coarsely crenate-serrate above the middle, hase 
cube rate, cymes all peduncled, males laxly dichotomously branched, fem. 
Pitate. . 
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