568 OXXXVI, URTICACEX. (J. D. Hooker.)  [Elatostema. 
out its length pubescent or tomentose leafy throughout, leaves $-13 in. 
membranous sbasile broadly obliquely oblong sharply serrate nearly 
throughout, tip rounded, lower base auricled, cystoliths crowde pinat i 
male recepts small sessile, invol. bracts few rounded hyaline, outer tree 
sepals with a long slender dorsal spur. 
SIKKIM Himataya, at the foot of the outer pills, alt, 1-4000 ft., Herb. Griffith 
Kew Distrib. 4535), &e. CurrrAGoNG, at Burkul, Clarke. . 
( Stem 1-2 ft., > ending from a perennial stock, flaccid, simple or branched, 
Leaves glabrous or nerves pubescent beneath, green or yellow when ry 21 m. 
spreading; cystoliths minute but conspicuous ; stipules small. Male re “lender 
diam., globose ; invol, bracts and bracteoles almost hyaline, with remar ka E sessile 
spurs; bracteoles ciliate.— Weddell has named this ‘(in Herb. Hook.) "fetum, 
var. minor, but it has no affinity with that species. It is very near “oo s (t 
differing in the sessile heads and pubescence, and if, as is possible, the c arac 
sessile and peduncled heads are deceiving, it may prove a form of that plant. 
14. E. pusillum, Clarke mss. ; dwarf, very slender, suberect, glasro? 
or pubescent, leaves few 3-1 in. membranous sessile obliquely e T with 
oblong obtuse entire or with a large tooth on each margin, base aon ts free 
sometimes an opposite leaflet, recepts minute sessile, invol. brac 
oblong or lanceolate ciliate. 10- 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; Simla, alt. 7-8000 ft., Thomson; Kumaon, alt. 
11,000 ft., Duthie; Sikkim, alt. 10,000 ft., Clarke. perulous; 
Stem 1-6 in., annual, simple, solitary, flaccid. Leaves glabrous or P rne lant. 
nerves very faint; cystoliths very many and crowded, large for the size o p 
: ller. 
Recepts 35-] in. diam., of both sexes sessile; bracteoles like the bracts, but sma 
Achene fusitorm, striate. 
15. E. cuneatum, Wight Ic. t. 2091, f. 3; dwarf, stem stout and 
leaves pubescent, leaves few ł-1} in. sessile faleately cuneate or " basi 
shaped, coarsely crenate above the middle, tip rounded or subacu e eile 
subauricled with sometimes a minute opposite leaflet, fem. heads acies ‘ 
invol. bracts of fem. confluent below in a fleshy disk, tips ovate aot Gibs. 
ciliate produced beyond the flowers. Wedd. Monogr. 330; Dalz. d dd. in 
Bomb. Fl. 239; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 946. E. Webbianum, dr xvi. 
Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, i. 190. E. approximatum, Wedd. in DC. Proar. 
1.190. Procris approximata, Wall. Cat. 4630. 
La, 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 6000 ft., Clarke. The Concan, on old walls, &e., 
. . z — STRIB: 
&c. TENASSERIM, Gomez; at Mergui, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4545).— DIS 
Java. desing brown, 
Stem 4-6 in., simple, glabrous or strigose. Leaves membranous, dry slender 
often sparsely setose above, crenate chiefly on the lower margin; nerves M middle ; 
with connecting arches within the margin, basal pair not reaching m . invol. 
cystoliths numerous, slender; stipules ovate. Fem. recepts ici in. diam. ; 
bracts pubescent ; bracteoles ciliate. Achene minute, ellipsoid, ribbed. 
. j piens 
** Male receptacles on usually long peduncles; short in E Sa . 
and T'reutleri, sometimes in E. Clarkei and others; sessile in, M 
surculosum, (Male fl. unknown in E. Griffithii and procridiowes. 
: . m). 
T Leaves acuminate or caudate (except in forms of £E. gurculosu / P 
QUA 
_ a. Bracts of male receptacle rounded, or broadly ovate, none p” 
into a spur beyond the receptacle. 
; į, 182; 
16. E. dissectum, Wedd. Monogr. 314; DC. Prodr. *** , 
