564 OXXXVI. URTICACEE. (J. D. Hooker.)  [Elatostema. 
Var. cuspidata, Wedd. 1. c. ; leaves glabrous or setose above and pubescent on the 
nerves beneath, base acute rarely rounded or subauricled, E. cuspidatum, Wight Ic. 
t. 1983 (not 2091, f. 1). E.affine, Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, i. 188.— Himalaya, 
Silhet, Nilghiris. 
Var. pubescens ; stem and leaves more or less substrigosely tomentose, leaf-base 
acute or rounded.—Nilghiris, Nuga Hills, Penang. 
Var. hispidula; leaves smaller rugose, hispidly setose beneath. 
Var. polycephala ; leaves as in var. cuspidata but base auricled, glabrous or 
hispidulous beneath, receptacles small clustered shortly peduncled. E. sessile, B. 
punctata, Wedd. l.c. E. polycephalum, Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. l.c. 189. Procris 
polycephala, Wall. Cat. 4629. P. punctata, Ham. in Don Prodr. 61.—Hima- 
aya. 
3. E. molle, Wedd. Monogr. 298; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 173; stem and 
leaf-nerves beneath strigosely pubescent, leaves 3—5 in. subsessile coriaceous 
obliquely elliptic-lanceolate acuminate or caudate crenulate or serrulate 
throughout their length strongly reticulate beneath, recepts sessile and sub- 
sessile, invol. bracts of male rounded confluent below. Procris molls, Wall. 
Cat. 4633. 
ASSAM ; on the Duphla Hills, alt. 2000 ft., Lister. Knasta MTS., Herb. Cal- 
cutt. ? CHITTAGONG, Clarke. PENANG, Phillips. SINGAPORE, Wallich. 
Stem erect, stout, angular, branched. Leaves rather rigid, pale when dry, base 
very oblique, hardly auricled, sometimes petioled, nerves very strong beneath ; 
cystoliths minute, crowded ; stipules very long, 3-1 in., lanceolate. Heads dicecious ; 
male j-$ in. diam. ; invol. bracts broad, scarions, puberulous, ‘Fem. heads not seen. 
—The very small leaf-serratures are one good character of this species. 
4. E. rupestre, Wedd. Monogr. 304; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 177; stem 
stout rigid erect and leaf-nerves beneath substrigosely tomentose, leaves 
4-6 in. subsessile obliquely (or not) narrowly elliptic or linear-lanceolate 
caudate serrate from above the middle lower third many-nerved, base 
acute, recepts sessile or subsessile, invol. bracts rounded confluent at the 
base only. Procris rupestris, Ham. i S eon nctata, Wall. 
Cat. 4627 A. pestris, Ham. in Don Prodr. 60. P. p 
NEPAL, Wallich. KmastA Mrs., usually on rocks in beds of streams, alt. 1-4000 ft., 
J. D. H., &e. CurrrAGoxa, Clarke.—DisTRIB. Java (Weddell). bed 
Dicecious. Stems 6-10 in., very stout, erect from a running stock, often branched. 
Leaves brown when dry, suberect, young silky, base sometimes very narrow ate 
straight ; cystoliths small, crowded ; stipules }—3 in., linear-lanceolate, acuminat 
Receptacles sessile or subsessile, 3-1 in. diam.; invol. bracts of male rounce» 
pubescent or villous; bracteoles of fem. woolly. Achene very minute, wart 
e . van 
Differs from Æ. molle in the narrower acutely serrate leaves. I have seen no Ja 
specimens. 
5. E. sesquifolium, Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bogor. 79; shrubby, leor 
4-10 in. (or less) subsessile or petioled obliquely oblong elliptic or lanceola : 
caudate-acuminate quite entire, cystoliths crowded conspicuous, recept 
small usually crowded lobed subsessile, invol. bracts rounded, O ma.: 
glabrate, of fem. tomentose. Wedd. Monogr. 308; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. 1» 
243. E. cuspidiferum, Mig. PI. Jungh. i. 22. E. Miquelianum & Zollinger! 
anum, Wedd. in Ann. Se. Nat. Ser. 4, i. 188. E. integrifolium, Wede: m 
DC. Prodr. xv. i. 179. E. line 
Pro T olatum, in part, Herb. Ind. Or. EJ’ y 
Procris integrifolia, Don Prodr, GL. P. piperifolia, Wall. Cat. 4628. P 
sesquifolia, Reinwdt. in Blume Bijd. 54. 
Assam and the.lower KHASIA Mrs., to CuiTTAGONG, BURMA and the ANDA 
and NICOBAR IsLANDS.— DISTRIB. Java. 
MAN 
