Pellionia.] CXXXVI. URTICACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 561 
with linear-lanceolate sepals. Elatostemma bulbiferum, Kurz in Journ. As. 
Soc. Beng. 1873, ii. 104. 
TENASSERIM ; at Attran, Kurz, Brandis. 
Stem erect, 6-12 in., branched; axillary bulbs 1-1 in. diam. Leaves scattered, 
3-5 in., with sometimes a very small opposite one ; base entire, cuneate or subauricled 
on one side; nerves very slender, basal about half the length of the leaf; cystolitlis 
very obscure. Peduncles 1-2 in., capillary; male cymes few-fld., subumbellately 
branched; pedicels very short; fem. recepts } in. diam. ; involucral bracts numerous, 
ovate-lanceolate, glabrous; bracteoles linear-lanceolate ; sepals much longer than 
the young fruit. 
7. P. burmanica, Hook. f.; quite glabrous, stem very slender 
flexuous, leaves membranous broadly obliquely ovate or ovate-oblong 
caudate coarsely crenate toothed or serrate, fem. heads axillary sessile 
disciform. 
TENASSERIM, Gallatly (Herb. Hort. Bot. Caleutt. No. 1033). . 
Stem a span long, very flexuous. Leaves 2-4 in., base cuneate or subauricled on 
the lower margin; nerves very slender, basal not half the length of the leaf; cysto- 
liths very obscure. Fem. heads 1-] in. diam. ; involucral bracts numerous, lanceo- 
late, confluent except at the tips; bracteoles lanceolate; sepals linear-oblong, 
exceeding the broadly elliptic tubercled achene.— Very near P. bulbifera, but the 
leaves are broader. more toothed than serrate, and the fem. heads are: perfectly sessile. 
— Male infl. not seen, 
Fk Leaves large, quite entire; stipules usually large, scarious, lanceolate 
with long points, very persistent. 
8. P. Heyneana, Wedd. Monogr. 287, t.5; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 169; 
stem woody below, leaves short-petioled or subsessile falcately oblong or 
elliptic-lanceolate obtusely acuminate quite entire 3-nerved, base unequally 
cordate, nerves pubescent beneath, male and fem. inf. stoutly peduncled. 
Procris Heyneana, Wall. Cat. 7272. 
Deccan PENINSULA ; Nilghiri and Travancore Mts., Heyne, &c. CEYLON, in the 
Central Province. 
Stems 6-10 in., from a branched woody creeping base; tips hirsute. Leaves 
8 in., Coriaceous, with often minute subalternating leaflets, grey with nee 
Cystoliths when dry; petiole 4-1 in., stout, and midrib hirsute ; süpues, are 
ale fl. in lax or dense cymes, or capitate, and peduncle villous; fem. capita e, and 
peduncle glabrous ; sepals of fem. subequal, denticulate, mucronate, ciliate. Achenes 
Compressed, tubercled, 
9. P. Helferiana, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 170; stem stout 
creeping, leaves long-petioled subfalcately ovate-oblong caudate quite entire, 
herves pubescent beneath, male inf. capitate very stoutly peduncled. 
Tenasserim, Helfer, Griffith. ? ANDAMAN ISLANDS, King's Collector, The 
Very near to P. Heyneana, but the petioles are much longer, EH " i * 
Specimens are very imperfect in young male fl. only. The Andaman Islands plar 
has capitate fem. infl. with more slender peduncles. 
10. P. javanica, Wedd. Monogr. 187; DC. Prodr. xvi. 1. 170; quite 
glabrous, stem short, leaves long-petioled subfalcately oblong or elliptic. 
anceolate obtusely caudate quite entire, base subacute, fem. cymes muc à 
branched very long-peduncled. Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 239. Pilea 
Javanica, Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, i. 187. 
PENANG, Curtis, SINGAPORE, Lobb.—DISTRIB. Java ?. o0 o2 
