no Urticacecc. [Elatostema. 



sep. 3-5, very minute, persistent ; staminodes minute or o ; 



ov, erect, stigma penicillate, ovule erect ; achene minute, 



endosperm o, cotyledons ovate. — Sp. about 50 ; 32 in Fl. 



B. Ind. 



Small I. opp. the larger few or o. 

 Cystoliths very minute or o. 



Tips of branches strigose . . . .1. E. WALKERyE. 



Tips of branches glabrous . . . .2. E. ACUMINATUM. 



Cystoliths large, conspicuous . . . . 3. E. lineolatum. 



Small 1. opp. all the larger 4. E. SURCULOSUM. 



T. E. Walkerae, Hk.f. in Fl. B. Ind. v. 566 (1888). 



E. sessi/e, Thw. Enum. 427 (non Forst). C. P. 3767. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 566. 



Stem 4-10 in., rather stout, flexuous, base woody, tips 

 strigosely pubescent ; 1. 3-4 in., sessile or very shortly petioled, 

 broadly obliquely oblong or cuneate-obovate, acutely caudate, 

 coarsely crenate above the middle, base obliquely cordate, 

 membranous, cystoliths minute, upper surface setose, with 

 tuberous - based bristles, under with softer hairs, veins 

 slender, 4-6 pairs; bracts of fem. recept. confluent in a 

 fleshy recept. |-f in. diam., closely appressed to the stem, 

 margin membranous, crenate, ciliate; achene very shortly 

 pedicelled, turgidly ellipsoid, ribbed. 



Lower montane zone ; very rare (.'). Rhamboda, at 4000 ft. (Thwaites). 

 Fl. (?) 



Endemic. 



The same locality in Ceylon is given for E. sessile, Forst, in Fl. B. Ind. 

 V. 563, by an oversight. 



2. E. acuminatum, Brons^n. in Duperr. Vov. Bot. ii. 211 (1829). 

 Trim. Syst. Cat 85. Wedd. In DC. Prod. xvi. 181. C. P. 3970. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 566. Wedd. Mon. Urt. t. 9 D, f. 1-4. 



Stem much branched, woody below, glabrous; branches 

 divaricate ; 1. .subsessile, 2-5 in. long, obliquely oblong-lanceo- 

 late or oblanceolate, caudate, coarsely crenate-toothed in 

 upper third to two-thirds, membranous, base acute or sub- 

 acute, cystoliths very minute, almost invisible; stip. subulate; 

 fl. monoecious or dioecious; recepts. small or minute, bracteoles 

 ovate; sep. 5, ovate, glabrous; bracteoles of fem. recepts. 

 linear-spathulate, ciliate, sep. linear, as long as the ovoid 

 achene. 



Lower montane zone; very rare. Dolosbagie. H. May; green. 



S. India, Khasia, Burma, Malaya. 



3. E. lineolatum, Wight, Ic. vi. 11 (1853). 



Wedd. Monogr. Urt. 312.^ Thw. Enum. 259. Wedd. in DC. 1. c. 181. 

 C. P. 2183. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 565. Wight, Ic. t. 19S4. 



