Elatostema.| — cxxttp. URTICACEH (Rendle). 288 
oblong, 5 lin. long; inner bracts and bracteoles linear, green and 
ciliate above, hyaline below, about 1 lin. long. Flowers shortly 
stalked ; perianth divided to the base into 3 delicate lanceolate 
shortly fimbriated segments, nearly as long as the ovary. Ovary 
less than $ lin. long ; stigma a dense tuft of hairs which exceed the 
Ovary in length. Achene not seen.—E. angusticuneatum, Engl. in 
Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii, 126, incl. var. Dusenii. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann, 1431! Cameroons : Johann Albrechts- 
hohe, Staudt, 647! Preuss, 163; Bigundi, Schlechter, 12429 ! and without precise 
locality, Dusén, 293, 
10. PROCRIS, Juss. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 386. 
Flowers moncecious or dicecious, the male in stalked axillary cymes 
or clusters, the female crowded on a subglobose fleshy receptacle. 
fale: Perianth 5- rarely 4-partite, segments membranous, valvate 
or very slightly imbricate, without an appendage. Stamens 5, rarely 
Ovary rudiment small. Female: Perianth very small, 3~4- 
partite, persistent in fruit. Ovary erect ; stigma sessile, penicillate, 
soon falling ; ovule erect from the base. Achene ovoid, almost 
Covered by the enlarged fleshy perianth-segments or, in the African 
Species, surrounded at the base by the closely imbricate unaltered 
Segments ; pericarp stiffly membranous or somewhat: hard. Seed 
conforming to the pericarp ; testa thin; albumen absent ; cotyle- 
dons broadly elliptic.—Succulent herbs or shrubs, often epiphytic. 
Leaves alternate as in the last genus, shortly stalked, in two rows, 
apex generally acuminate, base unequal, margin entire or slightly 
Setrate, penninerved. Stipules intrapetiolar, entire. Inflorescences 
solitary or fascicled in the leaf-axils or at the nodes of fallen leaves. 
Species about 10, in tropical Asia, Africa, and Polynesia. 
1, P. wightiana, Wall. Cat. 4638 (name only); Wedd. Monogr. 
Urtic, 336.—A succulent glabrous undershrub growing epiphytically, 
senerally on tree-trunks. Stem ascending, 8-16 in. high, sometimes 
3-1 in. thick in the lower part, in the leafy part 2 lin. or less, cortex 
brown, wrinkled when dry ; upper 2-3 in. leaf-bearing, with inter- 
nodes 4-5 lin. long. Leaves thinly membranous when dry and 
blackish green, obliquely oblanceolate, sometimes obovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, more or less tapering below to the unequal base which 
narrows into the short stalk, distantly and shallowly crenate-serrate 
above the middle, 34-6 in. long, 3-2 in. wide ; lateral nerves 6-7 on 
each side, ascending, cystoliths minute, inconspicuous, fusiform, 
Scattered ; a small undeveloped leaf is sometimes present opposite 
or alternating with the normal leaves ; petiole slender, 1-1} lin. long. 
tipules obovate-triangular, obtuse, about } lin. long. Flowers 
Steen, all in few-flowered stalked or subsessile clusters which are 
