566 CXXXVI URTICACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Elutostema. 
7. E. Walkeree, Hook. f.; stem short simple tips strigosely pubescent, 
leaves 3-4 in. sessile or very shortly petioled broadly obliquely oblong or 
cuneate-obovate caudate coarsely crenate above the middle or upper third, 
sparsely setose on both surfaces, penninerved, base obliquely cordate, fem. 
recepts small sessile, invol. bracts confluent into a fleshy disk with a mem- 
branous crenate ciliate margin. 
CEYLON ; Central Province, Walker, alt. 4000 ft., Thwaites (C.P. 3767). — 
Stem 4-10 in., woody below, terete, flexuous, rather stout. Leaves sometimes 
nearly as broad as long, rather thin, dull dark green when dry, sete of the upper 
surface with sometimes bulbous bases, of the lower softer; nerves 4—5 pairs above the 
basal, spreading, and costa very slender and faint; cystoliths on the upper surface, 
minute. Recepts closely appressed to the branch. Achenes turgidly ellipsoid, ribbed, 
pedicel very short.—Male fl. unknown. 
8. E. subincisum, Wedd. Monogr. 314; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 182; 
herbaceous, glabrous, leaves 1-23 in. sessile membranous obliquely oblong- 
lanceolate caudate deeply subpinnatifidly crenate or serrate or base sub- 
auricled on the lower margin, stipules linear-lanceolate, recepts sessile or 
subsessile, invol. bracts rounded outer stoutly mucronate. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 7-10,000 ft., J. D.H., Clarke, King. . 
Stem 8-10 in., erect, usually slender, simple or branched. Leaves drying brown, 
nerves 3—4 pairs above the basal; cystoliths very minute. Recepts about j-3 m. 
diam., often androgynous; bracts hardly exceeding the flowers, inner keeled ; fem. 
bracts membranous ; bracteoles ciliate. Achenes ellipsoid, ribbed.— The herbaceous 
habit distinguishes this from E. acuminatum. It resembles var. subincisa of E. 
surculosum, but the absence of the small opposite leaves and the minute cystoliths 
distinguish it. 
9. E. acuminatum, Brong. in Duperr. Voy. Bot. 211; slender, much 
branched, often woody below, quite glabrous, leaves subsessile 1-6 1n. 
membranous obliquely oblong or oblanceolate caudate coarsely crenate: 
toothed above the lower third or higher, base acute or subacute, cystolit a 
invisible, recepts small or minute sessile, invol. bracts minute. edd. 
Monogr, 311, t. 9 D, f£. 1-4; DO. Prodr. xvi. i. 181; Mig. Fi. Ind. Bat. 1, 1l- 
214. E. membranifolia, Kurz in Journ.-As. Soc. Beng. xlii. (1823) 11. 204. 
Proeris acuminata, Poir. Encycl. iv. 629. P. membranacea. Reinwdt. M 
Blume Bijd. 512. Boehmeria acuminata, Gaud. in Freye. Voy. Bot. ^ 
Langeveldia acuminata, Gaud. Voy. Uranie Bot. 494. 
KnasrA Mrs., Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4538), Clarke, alt. 1-3000 ft. TENASSEM 
at Thoungyen, Brandis. PERAK, Scortechini, King’s Collector. MAtacca, Gri i 
&c. TRAVANCORE, on the Anamallay Hills, Beddome. CEYLON ; in the Centra 
Province, alt. 3000 ft., Macrae, Thwaites.— DisTRIB. Java. ile 
Stein smooth, terete, woody below, slender, branches divaricate. Heads en 
solitary, monoecious or diccious, males pisiform, fem. smaller.—Thwaites’ spec 
have leaves 6 by 23 in., Beddome's 3-5 by 1-14; the Perak, Malacca aud Tena 
ones 2-3 by 4-3 in. ; these last have fewer teeth and much longer entire points, Mii; 
are sometimes glaucous beneath, and resemble those of E. lineolatum, var. Wig ens 
from all forms of which species the invisibility of eystoliths under an ordinary of a 
at once distinguishes this. The Khasia, Ceylon and Tenasserim form 38 that 
slender shrub with smooth terete stitf woody branches. In Thwaites’ specimens 
very minute punctiform cystoliths. 
10. E. platyphyllum, Wedd. Monogr. 301; DC. Prodr. UM 
tall, robust, leaves 6-10 by 3-7 in. sessile or petioled coriaceous nate 
obliquely rhomboid to oblong-lanceolate cuspidate or caudate-acum! 
