CHAMABAINIA (R. W.) 
Gen. Cumar. Monæcious. Male calyx 4-cleft, 
lobes all equal. Stamens 4,inflexed iu æstivation, 
rudimentary ovary clavate. Female: two or three 
sessile flowers aggregated on the axil or within a 
bract. Sepalstwo, minute. Style very short ; stigma 
somewhat capitate, penicillate. A achenium ovate. 
A low, herbaceous, ramous, diffuse, creeping plant, 
rooting at the joints, branches ascending: stipules 4 
large scariose at each joint : leaves opposite, petioled, 
ovate, acute, serrated, 3-nerved, pilose on both sides: 
flowers axillary, fascicled ; males and females mixed : 
males pedicelled, calyx deeply 4-cleft, lobes furnished 
at the apex with a bristly tooth-like appendage : sta- 
mens nearly twice the length of the calyx : rudimen- 
tary pistil clavate: female flowers in the same axils 
numerous, sessile, very minute, compactly aggregated 
in fascicles of two or more flowers embraced by a 
broad ovate, delicately membranous bract. 
This part of the structure is not shown in the ac- 
companying analyses where at fig. 5, a single flower 
is shown in place of several to the bract. In other 
respeets the analyses are generally correct, with the 
exception of the short style and stigma, which is im- 
perfectly represented. The genus is named with re- 
ference to its procumbent rooting habit—earthloving. 
1981. CHAMABAINIA CUSPIDATA (R. W.), Neil- 
gherries, in moist woods and in low wet ground near 
streams, &c. 
1982. FonskorrA uRTICOIDES (R. W.), procum- 
bent, ramous, rooting below, branches ascending, slen- 
der, diffuse: leaves opposite, petioled, ovate or sub- 
cordate, serrated, pilose on both sides, but especially 
on the nerves beneath: involucres axillary, campan- 
ulate, 5-toothed, 4-flowered, 3 pedicelled male, and 
“1 sessile female: male calyx 2-lobed with 1 sta- 
men, female tubular, enclosing the ovary, 5-toothed : 
style long, stigma villous, pointed : achenium ovate, 
glabrous. 
N Peleus. in damp shady woods about Ootaca- 
mund. . 
This, I believe, is the only Indian species yet dis- 
covered of this genus. F. tenacessima is found in 
Scinde, for specimens of which I am indebted to the 
kindness of Dr. Stocks. 
1983. ELATOSTEMA CUSPIDATA (R. W.), dioicous, 
herbaceous, erect, sparingly branched: leaves sub- 
sessile, alternate, very unequal-sided, cuspidately 
acuminate, coarsely serrated; sprinkled with a few 
bristly hairs and closely lineolate above, pubescent 
on the nerves beneath: receptacles axillary, sessile, 
oval, peltate; furnished on the margin with some 
tooth-like appendages: some males, mixed with the 
female flowers, longer pedicelled ; ovary ovate, base 
embraced by the 3-lobed calyx: style none, stigma 
pennicillate: seed ovate pericarp papery, splitting 
into two halves when pressed: embryo exalbumi- 
nous, radicle superior. (In figs. 5 and 7, of the plate, 
the artist has accidentally inverted the seed, repre- 
senting the embryo pointing to the base.) 
Neilgherries, thick woods on the banks of 
streams and other moist ground. 
In this plate the female plant only is represented ; 
the male flowers shown, being imperfect ones, found 
mixedin the female receptacles. In the male plant 
the leaves are somewhat narrower, and not so deeply 
serrated. 
1984. ELATOSTEMA LINEOLATA (R. W.), dioi- 
cous, herbaceous or suffruticose, erect, ramous, glab- 
rous: leaves sessile, alternate, unequal-sided, abruptly 
acuminate, with a few serratures on the convex edge, 
coriaceous; glabrous on both sides: marked above 
with numerous thick white lineols: pellucid dotted : 
male: receptacles deeply 2-lobed, membranous : flow- 
ers numerous, each at first embraced by a mem- 
branous involuere, afterwards by the elongation of 
the pedicel, exserted; calyx 4-parted: stamens 4, 
involute in æstivation. 
Neilgherries, Malabar, Canara, Ceylon, &c. 
Though I have specimens from all the above sta- 
tions, they are all males. The drawing was made 
nearly 10 years ago at Ootacamund and had I then 
had leisure to study the order, would doubtless have, 
before this time, found the female plant, but not 
having had that leisure, I all along supposed the 
drawing complete and did not discover its imperfec- 
tion until the impression had been struck off. 6 
tobe able to remedy the imperfections of this and 
its two fellows in a subsequent plate. 'The three 
drawings were all made about the same time, and all 
similarly imperfect as representing only one sex. 
1985. ErarosrEMA ovata (R. W.), herbaceous, 
dioicous or polygamous, erect; sparingly branched: 
leaves opposite, unequal-sized, ovate, acute, serrated, 
short petioled, pubescent, and sprinkled with stronger 
bristles above; glabrous, except on the veins, be- 
neath ; 3-nerved, the lateral pair very slender: recep- 
tacles axillary, pedicelled, fleshy : fructiferous flowers 
short pedicelled (mixed with numereous longer pedi- 
celled imperfect ones), calyx 4-cleft; imperfect ones, 
calyx 4-parted ; lobes cuspidate: male plant like the 
female, but larger, receptacles like those of the female 
except the total absence of female flowers. 
Neilgherries, in wet soil, frequent in the woods about 
Ootacamund. Plant from 6 to 8 inches high, leaves 
from 1 to 13 inch long, the larger ones about an inch 
broad, peduncles from à to 1 inch long, slender. 
This and Elatostema oppositifolia, Dalzell (Hook- 
er's Jour. 3, p. 179), are referable to the same section 
of the genus, but seem very distinct plants. They 
differ so much in habit from the preceding species 
that I almost doubt whether, on a complete revision 
of the order, they will be permitted to remain in the 
same genus. The male flowers of E. lineolata, with 
their conspicuous involucell and membranous invo- 
lucre seem very distinet. I, however, with my pre- 
sent imperfect information cannot venture on any 
alterations. 
1986. AsPIDOPTERIS GLOMERATA (R. W.), shrubby, 
climbing, glabrous : leaves coriaceous, short petioled, 
broad elliptic, sub-acute at both ends, slightly un- 
equal-sided, faintly triple-nerved, quite entire: flow- 
ers glomerate, axillary or on the ends of rudimentary 
branches; glomerules short, clothed with tawny pube- 
scence: pedicels slender, about the length of the pe- 
tiols: calyx lobes oval, obtuse, sparingly ciliate, about 
4 the length of the linear sub-obovate obtuse, petals : 
petals slightly pubescent within, about the length of 
the stamens. 
Courtallum, Malabar, Mysore. 
This species seems nearly allied to Mr. Dalzell’s 
A. canarensis if indeed it be not a form of that very 
plant, but as it is said to have the flowers in simple 
racemes, and as I have specimens of this plant from 
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