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560 CXXXVI. URTICACEE. (3. D. Hooker.) [Pellionia. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA; at Yoksun, alt. 5000 ft., J. D. H. Kuasia Mrs.; at 
Nurtiung, alt. 4000 ft., Clarke. . 
Stem 6-10 in., stout, ascending from a creeping base. Leaves 2-921 in., rather 
thick, quite glabrous; stipules subulate. Male cymes with subulate bracts and 
bracteoles; fem. }-} in. diam. or shorter, slender ; peduncles 4 in. long, branches so 
short as to be hidden by the flowers; bracts subulate ; sepals- lanceolate, very 
unequal, much longer than the tubercled ellipsoid achenes.—The Khasian specimens 
are in male fl. only, and more slender than the Sikkim ones. 
3. P. stenocarpa, Wedd. Monogr. 284, t. 5, f. 19, 15; DC. Prodr. 
xvi. i. 168; glabrous, leaves alternate subsessile obliquely oblong or elliptic- 
lanceolate acuminate coarsely serrate above the lower third or middle, base 
acute or obtuse, male cymes long-peduncled corymbose, fem. sessile capitate, 
sepals subequal mucronate, achene narrow subcylindric minutely warted. 
Knas1A Mrs., alt. 1-4000 ft., J. D. H. 4 T. T. (Weddell). 
Diccious or monecious. Stem erect, 4 in. Leaves $-2 by i- + tent 
branous, whitish beneath and reticulated with cystoliths ; stipules 2, linear, persisten . 
Male peduncle 3-13 in. Fem. cymes nearly as in Elatostema, but with the bracteo 
much shorter than the pedicels of the flowers; fruiting sepals about equal in length, 
but with unequal mucros, Achene narrowed from the middle to the tip, about we 
as long as the sepals, equally minutely warted.—I find no specimens answering. ^ 
this amongst Thomson’s and my collections. Weddell describes the fem. heads as ii 
those of au Elatostema, to which the achene would seem to refer it. 
$ in. mem- 
4. P. ambigua, Wedd. Monogr. 985; DC. Prodr. xvi 1 165; 
nearly glabrous, leaves alternate sessile obliquely oblong-lanceolate o 
elliptic penninerved coarsely serrate above the entire obtuse or subcor J 
base, male cymes long-peduncled very contracted capitellate, fem. sessile, 
mala sepals subequal mucronate ‘with long points, achenes ellipso! 
ubercled. 
KnasrA Mrs., alt. 0-4000 ft., J. D. H. & T. T. :dvib above 
Stem simple, 4-6 in. Leaves 3-5 by 3-14 in., puberulous on the midrib a ter- 
and nerves beneath ; minute linear or subulate leaves occur in some specimens a ica 
nating with the larger. Male cymes with very short branches forming ober 
heads 4 in. long and broad; bracts subulate; flowers rather long-pedicelled. 
heads if on the same plant with the male in the upper axils, j in. diam. j 
subulate, exceeding the flowers. 
5. P. Duvauana, N. E. Br. in IIl. Hortic. xxix. 189, t. 472; Gare 
Chron. xviii. (1882) 712; prostrate, leaves sessile broadly obliquely 9 ules 
or orbicular coarsely crenate tip obtuse or rounded, nerves pubescent, ma e 
large ovate acuminate persistent, male cymes long and stoutly pe Journ. 
branched pubescent, bracts minute. Elatostema gibbosa, Kurz ™ 
As. Soc. Beng. xlii. ii. 104. Procris gibbosa, Wall. Cat. 7273. 
PEGv, Brandis. PERAK, Scortechini, Wray, &c.— DISTRIB. Cochin Cl 
Stem or branches 1-2 ft., succulent, creeping below, tips pubescent. 
1-24 in., fleshy ? ; stipules in pairs, } in. long, scarious. Male pe n 
branches irregular, divaricate ; flowers large, outer sepal gibbous ; fem. fl. stum 
Wee Wallich’s No. 7273 is doubtfully referred to Elat. corni! ? 
eddell. 
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Leaves 
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6. P. bulbifera, Z/ook.f.; very slender, quite glabrous, axils late 
ferous, leaves mem branous subsessile obliquely elliptic-oblong or- ani end 
acuminate or caudate coarsely serrate, male and fem. infi. on long 
pedicels, male fl. cymose pedicelled, tem. on a disciform involucra 
