Elatostema. | CXXXVI. URTICACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 567 
crenulate or serrulate from near the often auricled base, male recepts lobed 
or clustered sessile or shortly peduncled exinvolucrate, invol. bracts con- 
fluent in a fleshy disk with lobed margins. 
TROPICAL HIMALAYA; Kumaon, Thomson. Sikkim, alt. 1-6000 ft., J. D. H., 
Clarke. Kuasta Mrs., alt. 4-5000 ft., Grifith, &c. Naga HiLLs, on Kohima, 
alt. 6000 ft., Clarke. 
The largest and stoutest Indian species, 4-5 ft. high, yellow green when dry; 
stem terete, grooved when dry, branches often zigzag. Leaves coriaceous, largest 
6-10 by 3-44 in., narrowest 6 by 3-2 iu., smooth or scaberulous above, base very 
variable, glabrous or pubescent beneath, cuneate or more often with a large round or 
incurved hooked auricle on the lower margin, which is produced far below the acute 
Upper; cystoliths crowded ; nerves all oblique ; stipules lin.,or less. Recepts j-lin. 
diam, ; peduncle sometimes } in.; fem. small, tomentose; invol. bracts confluent 
with free tips. Achene ovoid, dotted with red.—Very variable; the leaves are some- 
times quite entire below the middle. 
ll. E. Stracheyanum, Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4,1.188; Monogr. 
828, t. 9, f. 18; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 189; very slender herbaceous, stem long 
creeping sending up flaccid tomentose branches, leaves 1-2 in. sessile mem- 
Tanous obliquely oblong or oblong-lanceolate acuminate strongly serrate 
t roughout sparsely setulose above pubescent beneath, cystoliths minute 
piens male recepts small subsessile, invol. bracts few free rounded green 
escent, 
WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Kumaon, alt. 64,000 ft., Strachey & Winterbottom. 
HASIA Mrs., alt. 5-6000 ft., J. D.H. & T.T. 
Creeping stem 2-3 ft.; branches 4-10 in. Leaves very membranous, lower base 
sounded, a minute opposite green leaflet } in. long is sometimes present; nerves 
ery slender; stipules lanceolate. Male recepts }-} in. diam., globose, few-fld.; 
y‘teoles linear-oblong, ciliate ; sepals apiculate. Fem. heads not seen, described by 
ral as smaller than the males with obovate bracteoles, ‘sepals shorter than the 
orm. odes, and the achenes as broadly elliptic and obtusely acuminate, — The leaves in 
™ and serrature resemble those of Æ. sessile, which is perhaps its nearest ally, and 
tom which it differs in size and its creeping habit. 
h 12. E. Hookerianum, Wedd. Monogr. 309; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 180; 
i aceous, quite glabrous, stem long slender and rooting below, leaves 
< m. membranous or coriaceous sessile falcately oblong-lanceolate acu- 
d auricled on the 
paate or caudate serrate in the upper half, base broa 
lower i i i P 
margin, cystoliths minute or obscure, stipules lateral linear or ti!ito 
ystoliths minute or P duncled, male invol. bracts 
Free stent, recepts sessile or the male shortly pe acts 
ei; į eronate, fem. confluent in a fleshy disk with a membranous cre 
ate margin. 
wo Era HIMALAYA, alt. 4-6000 ft., Herb. Griffith, J. D. H., &e. Kwasta and 
onions ar diocesan et i t length, then 
erect onccious or diccious. Stem creeping below for sometimes a grea eng , he 
Unifo or inclined, stout or slender, simple or branched. Leaves green when t Y y M 
crowdie along the stem, rarely straight with acute bases, cystoliths jmperecp ple or 
and ed along the very margin; stipules }-} in. Male fi. long-pedicehe ; ? a | 
ra teo) coles glabrous; fem. fl. on a very thick pedicel shorter than the achenes, 
voles ciliate, Achenes ellipsoid, obtuse, irregularly ribbed. — is abundant.— 
Sikkim” ? peduncularis ; leaves less falcate, base narrowed, cystoliths abun . 
im, alt, 4—5000 ft., Clarke. 
tt Leaves small short, tip rounded or cuspidate. 
13. p. reptans, Hook. f.; stem slender creeping and rooting through- 
