372 URTICACE^. 



Pilea stipulosaM^w^/; F.B.L v 555, XXIX II. Dis- 

 tinguished by its very large oblong stipules ; a tall herb. 

 Leaves long-stalked, 3 to 5 by l^ to 2 inches elliptic, 

 shortly acuminate, serrate, three-nerved at the base : 

 stipules I to i^ by H to Yz inch. Flowers crowded in 

 shortly-stalked, close cymose panicles, which are fasci- 

 cled, two or three in a leaf-axil. Achenes minute smooth. 



Pulneys : Gundattu shola. Bourne 560, 18 18, 2914. 



Gen. Dist. Ceylon (where the species was founded). 



Pilea trincrvia Wight, Herb. Prop. I ; F.BJ. v 557, 

 XXIX 16. Stem robust, glabrous, succulent. Leaves 3 to 

 6 by lYz to 3 inches, oblong lanceolate to broadly-elliptic 

 acuminate, serrate. Outer pair of basal nerves connected 

 to the midrib by numerous straight or slightly curved 

 veins, and branching also to each tooth. Panicles axil- 

 lary /^ to 2 inches, much branched. Wight Ic. 1. 1973. 



In cool shady places, woods, etc., common. Fyson 11 94, 

 3491, 1395, 1202, 2113, 3096. Bourne 1819, 1819,* 242. 



Gen. Dist. South India and Ceylon. 



ELATOSTEMA. f.b.i. 136XXXII. 

 Annual or perennial herbs, of the tribe 7 URTICEM 

 (p. 370), with alternate, very unsymmetric, coarsely 

 toothed leaves, and characterised further by the flowers 

 being aggregated in dense axillary cushions (receptacles), 

 which are at first enclosed in an involucre of bracts, and 

 in fruit become flat. Bracteoles to each flower two : sepals 

 of the male very thin : sepals of the female small and 

 narrow. 



Leaves in very unequal pairs E. surculosum. 



Leaf coarsely toothed from apex to base . . . . E. sessile. 

 Leaf with long point, and a few shallow teeth. . E. lineolatum. 



Elatostcma sessile Forst ; var cuspidata Wight, Herb. 

 Prop ! ; F.B.I. v 563, XXXII 2, Stem slender, flexuous, 



