Elatostema.] “OXXXVI, URTICACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 569 
quite glabrous, erect, leaves 3-5 in. sessile or petioled obliquely or falcately 
oblanceolate or broadly or oblong-ovate acuminate coarsely crenate or 
serrate from the middle of the lower margin upwards upper subentire, base 
acute, male recepts long-peduncled, teceptacle when large lobed or lacerate 
often to the base exposing the flowers, fem. sessile. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 3-8000 ft., and Kmasra Mrs., alt. 4-6000 ft, J. D. H., 
Clarke. Misamı Mrs., Griffith. 
Monocious or diccious. Stem simple, erect from a shortly creeping base, 8-12 in., 
stout and subsucculent or slender, and leaves drying green. Leaves rather thick, 
narrowed to the entire bases, most so in Khasimn specimens, which are often very 
acute and distinctly petioled ; cystoliths very many, minute, slender; nerves meeting 
m the intramarginal basal one; stipules lateral, subulate or lanceolate. Male recepts 
1-lin. diam., lobed ; lobes fleshy, fringed with small ovate acute glabrous bracts ; 
flowers large, pedicelled, 1-2 sepals spurred ; fem. recepts much smaller, depressed, 
bracteoles ciliate. Achenes eilipsoid, subcompressed, rather fleshy, not ribbed or 
striate, —The male fl. are much larger than usual in the genus. Small specimens 
1-8 in. high have oblanceolate leaves 2 by 3-$ in. 
17. E. Griffithii, Hoot. f.; quite glabrous, stem stout erect, leaves 
5-6 in. subsessile coriaceous obliquely oblanceolate acuminate base 
harrow acute obtusely serrate from near the base penninerved, fem. 
recepts long-peduncled large fleshy irregularly lobed with crenulate ciliate 
margins, 
Upper Assam; Mishmi Hills, Grifith (Kew Distrib. 4537). 
Stem 8-10 in., erect from a densely matted fibrous root, probably fleshy. Leaves 
green when dry; cystoliths minute, abundant above and on the nerves beneath; 
l nerves reaching about half-way ; stipules 3-3 in., linear, acute, byaline. Male 
recepts 1-13 in. diam.; bracts confluent in a fleshy disk, with crenulate margins, 
and branching nerves; peduncles 1-2} in.; bracteoles ciliate, membranous, outer 
Toadly obiong, inner narrower or subspathulate, those towards the disk deformed 
very short; fem. fl. very shortly pedicelled. Achene ellipsoid, acute at both ends.— 
Named E. ficoideum by Weddell in Herb. Hook. (to the male receptacles of which 
the females of this bear some resemblance), but it is a very different species, and 
Probably nearest E. dissectum. The male fl. are unknown. 
18. E. papillosum, Wedd. Monogr. 327; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 188; 
stem stout erect tomentose above, leaves 4-6 in. sessile or shortly petioled 
thick obliquely elliptic or subrhombic ovate caudate-acuminate crenate 
9r toothed, nerves beneath pubescent, cystoliths microscopic or 0, male 
Técepts stoutly peduncled, invol. bracts large broad rounded, fem. sub- 
sessile. Procris peduncularis, Wall. Cat. 4634 B. 
cong ET, CACHAR and the Kzasra Hirs, alt. 1-4000 ft., Wallich, &e. Carrra- 
, Ster. 
be Stem 8-12 in., erect from the swollen or shortly inclined base, fleshy, naked 
oclow. eares rather fleshy, drying vellow-brown, opaque, base unequally cuneate 
1 subauricled on the lower margin ; nerves few, sunk in the tissue ; stipules lanceo- 
ae or linear. Male recepts 1-3 in. diam., hemispheric ; outer invol. bracts gla rovs, 
ree, fleshy ; bracteoles linear-oblong, ciliate; fem. recepts rather smaller than the 
males, Achenes ellipsoid, acute at both ends, acutely ribbed, the ribs rather granular 
and interrupted, with granules in the interspaces. 
19. 8 Clark i b tem simple stout erect 
igi . ei, Hook. f.; quite glabrous, s 
«Eid, leaves 4-6 in. Jubsessilo corlaceous straight lanceolate acuminate 
renate-serrate from a little above the straight acuminate base, male and 
*Tecepts peduncled subglobose, invol. bracts of male rounded, of fem. 
