562 -CXXXVI. URTICACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [Pellionia. 
Stem woody below. Leaves 4-7 in , and stipules as in Ze/feriana, but petiole 2-3 in. 
Achenes compressed, tubercled.—The authority for this being a Javan plant consists 1u 
specimens in Herb. Hook. ticketed “Java, Lobb ;” but as Lobb also collected in 
Singapore, and corresponding specimens of Lobb’s in Herb. Bentham are ticketed from 
Singapore, itis possible that the Javan habitat is an error. 
11. P. acaulis, Hook. f.; stem very short and petioles and nerves 
beneath villous, leaves crowded at the top of the stem falcately elliptic- 
lanceolate obtusely acuminate, base acute, fem. cymes capitate very shortly 
peduncled. 
PENANG ; on damp rocks, King’s Collector. . 
Stems 1-2 in., rooting up to the leaf-bases. Leaves 2-4 in., cystoliths obseure ; 
petiole à in. Fem.-cymes } in. diam. ; flowers sessile; sepals narrowly linear, ciliate ; 
achenes compressed, tubercled. 
SPECIES UNKNOWN TO ME. . 
12. P. procridifolia, Kurz 4n Trimen Journ. Bot. 1873, 330, and in 
Journ. As, Soc. Beng. xlv. ii. 149; monoecious, scandent, fleshy, glabrous, 
leaves 4-7 in. obversely or linear-oblong shortly or abruptly acuminate 
entire, base unequal acute, nerves 5-6 pairs, cystoliths slender, flowers white 
males in small subaxillary glabrous cymes, peduncle 2-12 in. slender, fem. 
forming dense axillary hemispheric clusters. 
NICOBAR ISLANDS; in Katchall, Kurz. . 
Kurz observes that the leaves are very like those of P. levigata, and (in Beng. As. 
Soc. Journ.) that the species is very near P. frutescens, which is a Javan bill Urn 
with serrate leaves. I find no reference elsewhere to P. frutescens and levigata, bo 
which names occur under Procris as species of Blume's. 
32. BLATOSTEMA, Forst. 
Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves alternate or with sometimes a n 
leaf subopposite to the normal leaf, distichous, sessile or subsessile, usua. Y 
very oblique and unequal-sided, triple-nerved at the base or above E 
stipules intrapetiolar or lateral. Flowers very minute, crowded on pr 
or peduncled unisexual usually involucra’e receptacles ; invol. pin 
rounded oblong or ovate, outer sometimes with a dorsal spur or horn, disk 
nearly free or more or less confluent in a fleshy circular or lobe teoles 
margined with the tips of the bracts, margin rarely quite entire; brac ‘ he 
densely crowded, of male heads usually oblong, of fem. spathulate ; ts 
flowers are often collected in clusters, each surrounded by partial brace 
giving the head a lobed appearance. Mare rr. Sepals 4-5, 2 or more ode 
tnbercled or spurred at the back. Stamens 4-5, inflexed in bud. Dish" 
minute. Fem. rL. Sevals 3-5, very minute, much shorter than the pisi 
persistent. Staminodes minute or 0. Stigma penicillate; ovale hos 
Achene minute, ellipsoid or fusiform, usually ribbed, subtended by ‘ ledons 
minute perianth. Seed usually exalbuminons, testa membranous; core 
ovate or semiterete.—Species about 50, natives of the tropics 9 
World, except Australia. 
As in the case of Pilea (p. 551), the type specimens of the Indian $ 
genus were so hastily named by Weddell in the Hookerian Herbarium, 
had great difficulty in identifying many of them with his descriptions, ant © 
in one or two instances. The presence of small leaflets opposite the leaves i obseu 
a constant character in some of the species where these do occur, and & Vbably much 
one in others, I have not been able to use it as a sectional character. Pro 
minute 
pecies 5 hen 
