574 CXXXVI. URTICACEZ. (J.D. Hooker. — [Hlatostema. 
29. E. cornutum, Wedd. Monogr. 316; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 183 (excl. 
syn. Procris gibbosa); stem slender creeping and rooting flaccid, leaves 
1-2} in. sessile or petioled obliquely or falcately oblong or orbicular 
obtuse or acute sharply serrate nearly throughout, base auricled on the 
lower side or on both and amplexicaul, male recepts long-peduncled, outer 
invol. bracts free rounded concave with a long slender dorsal spur. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 1-4000 ft., J. D. H., Clarke. Kuasta Mrs., alt. 
0-4000 ft.. J. D. H. & T. T. 
Stems trailing, branched, glabrous, Leaves membranous, pale green, puberulous 
on the nerves beneath, cystoliths minute, slender; stipules lanceolate, acuminate. 
Male recepts 4-1 in. diam., pale green; peduncle 1-3 in.; invol. bracts glabrous, 
membranous, hyaline ; bracteoles linear, hyaline; male fl. few, sepals apiculate.— 
Fem. recepts not seen. See remarks under E. reptans. 
DOUBTFUL AND IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 
90. E. ciuitatum, Clarke mss.; stem simple ascending from a creep- 
ing base glabrous, leaves 5-7 in. few membranous subsessile rather 
obliquely linear-oblong or oblanceolate acuminate coarsely serrate Pi e 
beneath base narrowed acute or obtuse sparsely setose with slender brist es 
above and especially towards the margins, fem. recepts small subsessile from 
the stem below the leaves, invol. bracts confluent in a thick tomentose entire 
disk, achene costate. 
MUNNIPORE ; on the Barak River, alt. 300 ft., Clarke. 10 in 
Stem ascending from a rather fleshy creeping and stoloniferous base, 6-10 te. 
high, rather slender, naked below, Leaves green when dry, young strongly pur 
penninerved ; nerves 4-6 pairs above the basal, strigosely ciliate beneath, slender te; 
prominent, basal pair reaching beyond the middle; teeth acute or cusp! ree 
cystoliths abundant ; stipules } in., oblong, green, sometimes in pairs or scattere id 
the stem below the leaves. Fem. recepís } in. diam. Achene turgidly ellipse, 
acute.—The specimens are indifferent. The ciliate leaves are very peculiar. 
31. E. ruurrICUM, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. 186; quite glabrous, stem 
long slender creeping and rooting branched, leaves 4-1} by 3-1 in. petro ^ 
fleshy elliptie obtuse nearly equilateral quite entire rigid when dry, ace 
rounded or subcordate triple-nerved, cystoliths minute on the upper sur ae 
cnly, petiole i-& in. stipules small ovate-lanceolate, male recepts (very 
young ș in. long) shortly peduncled solitary ovoid. 
Misumi HirLs; at Khoshai, G'iffith.—May be a Pellionia near P. Duvauana. 
92. E. Novara, Kurz in Journ. Beng. As. Soc. xlv. ii. 149; a glabro 
branched undershrub, leaves 3-6 in. alternate subsessile membranot 
black when dry obliquely lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate repand dh 3 
subulate-acuminate, cystoliths scattered, lateral nerves confluent towa » 
the margin, stipules }-} in. subnlate deciduous, flowers subglabrous & 
E. lineolatum, crowded in the axils. 
Nicopar IstANDS ; at Nankowry (Novara Exped.). +. smallet 
Differs from E. lineolatum in the blackening leaves, different nervations King) 
flowers and flower clusters,— Description from Kurz; my specimens (from £T 
are very indifferent. 
„in 
Urtica, Griff. Notul. iv. 404; Ie. Plant. Asiat. t. 562, f. 2, from Tong*®. 
Sed : 8 
Bhotan, may be an Elatostema, but the transverse nervation is unlike any 
known to me. 
