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In India the root is used as a remedy for syphilis. The Mohammedans regard it 
as an antidote to vegetable poisons. In Leyte and other Visayan Provinces of the 
Philippines the natives drink an infusion of the leaves and call the plant ‘wild tea” 
(cha cimarron). 
REFERENCES: 
Ehretia microphylla Lam. Tabl. Eneye. 1: 425. 1791, 
Cordia retusa Vahl, Symb. 2: 42. 1791. 
Ehretia buxifolia Roxb, Pl. Corom, 1: 42. t. 47. 1795. 
Elatostema pedunculatum. STRAWBERRY-NETTLE, 
Family Urticaceae. 
An herbaceous plant or undershrub growing on rocks or trunks of dead trees. 
Leaves of two forms differing greatly in size, alternate, arranged in two rows, a large 
leaf on one side with a small leaf on the opposite side; the large leaves lanceolate or 
oblong-lanceolate, oblique, feather-veined, acuminate, acute at the base, entire or 
obscurely sinuate-serrate at the tip; the small leaves bract-like, subsessile, linceo- 
late; stipules axillary; male flowers in cymes, with peduncles | to 2 em. long; female 
flowers sessile, crowded in heads; heads white at first, growing to the size of a small 
strawberry, and turning red on ripening.@ First collected on the island of Guam 
by Gaudichaud, 
REFERENCES: 
Klatostema pedunculatum Forst. Char. Gen, 105, t. 63,1776, 
Procris pedunewlata (Forst.) Wedd. in DC. Prod, 16': 191. 1869. 
This is Forster’s first species and the one he figured, and should therefore be 
taken as the type of the genus. Procris was proposed as a name for this genus in 
1789. 
Elder, wild. See Premna gaudichaudii. 
Elemi, Manila. See Canarium indicwin. 
Eleocharis atropurpurea Presl. Same as Mleocharis capitata. 
Elocharis capitata. SPIKE-RUSH. 
Family Cy peraceae. 
An annual sedge with fibrous roots, growing in moist places. Culms densely 
tufted, nearly terete, almost filiform; leaves reduced to sheaths; upper sheath trun- 
cate, L toothed; spikelet solitary, ovoid, much thicker than the culm, many-flowered, 
hot subtended by an involucre; seales concave, spirally imbricated all around, 
broadly ovate, obtuse, firm, brown with a greenish midvein, narrowly scarious- 
margined, persistent; stamens mostly 2; style 2-cleft; bristles 59 to 8, slender, down- 
wardly hispid, as long as the achene; achene obovate, jet black, smooth, shining, 
nearly | mm. long; base of style persistent on summit of achene, forming a tubercle; 
tubercle depressed, apiculate, constricted at the base, very much shorter than the 
achene. 
Collected by Haenke in Guam. 
REFERENCES: 
Kleocharis capitata (L.) R. Br. Prod. 225, 1810. 
Seirpus capitatus L. Sp. Pl. 1: 48. 1753. 
Eleocharis plantaginoidea. SPIKE-RUSIT. 
Loca. NAMES. —Uchaga lahe (Guam); Boru-pun (Ceylon); Harefo (Madagascar ). 
A glabrous, leafless sedge. Stems simple, erect, without nodes; sheaths few, cylin- 
drical, truncate or with a small unilateral subapical tooth, barren leaf-like stems 
often present; inflorescence a single terminal spikelet; glumes imbricated on all 
sides, obtuse; lowest ‘bract’? (not always empty) not longer than the spikelet; 
lowest flower nut-bearing, perfect; many succeeding glumes, usually nut-bearing, 
akngler, Nat. Pflanzenfamilien, Teil 8, Abt. 1, p. 109, fig. 79, 1894. 
