Elaiostema.l Urticacecs. IO9 



Montane zone ; very rare. Found only in East Matale Dist. byr 

 Beckett. Fl. Feb. ; green. 



Himalaya, Nilgiris, and other mts. of India, Java, Trop. Africa. 



20. PEZiZiZONZA, Gaudich. 

 Succulent usually glabrous herbs ; 1. distichously sub- 

 opposite, often in unequal pairs, one large, the other minute,, 

 unequal-sided, 3-veined ; .stip. persistent ; fl. mono- or dioe- 

 cious, in axillary, long-peduncled, contracted, dichotomously 

 branched cymes ; male fl. : — sep. 4 or 5, obtuse, imbricate, 

 dorsally spurred below the tip; stam. 5, fil. inflexed in bud ; 

 pistillode conic ; fem. fl. : — sessile in small axillary heads ; 

 sep. 4-5, subequal ; staminodes inflexed ; ov. oval, shorter 

 than the sep., stigma sessile, penicillate, ovule erect ; achene 

 embraced by the sep., compressed, tubercled, endosperm very 

 scanty, cotyledons rounded, radicle conic. — Sp. 15 ; 12 in FL. 

 B. Ind. 



P. Heyneana, Wedd. Monogr. Urt. 287 (1857). 



Thw. Enum, 259. Wedd. in DC. Prod. xvi. 169. C. P. 2179. 



Fl. B. Ind. v. 561. Wedd. Monogr. Urt. t. 5. 



A perennial herb ; stem 6-10 in. high, woody, branched,, 

 sometimes creeping below, tips of branches hirsute ; 1. 4-8 in., 

 with often opposite each a minute subalternating re- 

 curved leaflet, subsessile or shortly petioled, falcately oblong 

 or oblong-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate or caudate, quite 

 entire, base unequally cordate, thinly coriaceous, veins arched 

 and midrib puberulous beneath ; petiole stout, pubescent ; 

 stip. \-\ in., triangular, tip subulate, male cymes long- 

 peduncled, dense- or lax-fld., ped. pubescent ; fem. heads 

 sessile. 



Moist country 2-4000 ft.; rather rare. Kaduganawa; Hantane. Fl. 

 May ; male pink. 

 Also in S. India. 

 The female inflorescence is sessile not pedunculate in our plant. 



21. SIiATOSTEZtIA, Forst. 

 Herbs or undershrubs; 1. alt., or subopp., with one of each, 

 pair minute, distichous, sessile or subsessile, unequal sided, 

 base 3-veined, tissue with usually conspicuous cystoliths;. 

 stip. various ; fl. very minute, crowded in an involucre or 

 receptacle of free or confluent bracts, mixed with bracteoles; 

 male fl. : — sep. 4-5, two or more dorsally gibbous or spurred ;, 

 stam. 4-5, fil. inflexed in bud; pistillode minute; fem. fl. : — 



