ex VI, UHTlCACE.l. 635 



TLOWERS : Sepals 3-5, very miuute, much shorter than the ovary, per- 

 sistent. Staiuinodes minute or 0. Ovary straight ; ovule erect ; 

 stigma peuicillate. Fruit a minute ellipsoid or fusiform usually ribbed 

 achene, subtended by the very minute perianth. Seed usually exalbu- 

 minous ; testa membranous ; cotyledons ovate or semi-cylindric. — 

 DiSTKiB. Tropics of the Old Woi-ld except Australia ; species about 50. 



A herb or undershrub, 3-4 ft. high 1. E. lineolatum. 



A small herb, 4-8 in. high 2. E. cuneaium. 



1. Elatostema lineolatum, Wight, Icon. v. 6 (1853) p. 11, 1. 1984. 

 Herbaceous or suffruticose, 3-4 ft. high, pubescent or tomeutose. 

 Leaves 2-5^ by |-1| in., very variable, subsessile or shortly petiolate, 

 oblong or oblong-lanceolate or cuneately obovate or linear-oblong, often 

 obliquely falcate, acuminate or caudate, entire or coarsely crenate, 

 toothed or serrate above the middle, base acute or cuueate ; lateral 

 nerves few ; cystoliths crowded and conspicuous ; stipules linear-lanceo- 

 late. Flowers dioecious ; receptacle of both sexes sessile, capitate. Male 

 TLOWEHS pisiform ; bracts rounded, pubescent ; bracteoles oblong \a ith 

 pubescent costa and tips. Sepals rounded, obtuse, pubescent. Female 

 FLOWEES smaller than the male ; bracteoles spathulate, ciliate. Sepals 

 minute, denticulate. Acheues ellipsoid, acute. 



This is the var. major of Thwaites (Enum. p. 260). I cannot find 

 anv good characters to separate var. intec/rifolia, Hook. f. (Fl. B. I. 

 V. 5, p. 565), from this. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 565; Weddell, Monog. Urtic. 

 p. 312; Trim. Fl. Cevl. v. 4, p. 110; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 12 (1899) p. 516. 



KoNKAN : Stocks !, Law I S. M. Country : Castlerock, Bhiva ! Kanaka : Stocks I, 

 Lawl; KAla -niidAl, Eifckie, 1371!; iionsiva,r, Dal.!ell I — Distrib. ludia (Tropical 

 Hirualaya, W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



2. Elatostema cuneatum, Wight, Icon. v. 6 (1853) p. 35, t. 2091, 

 fig. 3. An annual herb, more or less pubescent, 4-8 in. high ; stem 

 simple or scarcely branched, often rooting near the base. Leaves (the 

 uppermost) |-1^ by |-§ in., subsessile, falcately cuneate or hatchet- 

 sliaped, coarsely crenate above the middle, tip rounded or subacute, 

 sometimes with a minute opposite leaflet at the base, the upper surface 

 with numerous cystoliths ; stipules ovate ; lower leaves on the stem 

 few, very small, sometimes nearly entire. Female flowers : Heads 

 sessile, solitary, at each node, g-^ in. in diam. ; bracts of the involucre 

 pubescent; bracteoles oblong-spathulate, shortly ciliate. Perianth- 

 segments of female 3, very i-hort. Achenes ^ in. long., ellipsoid, ribbed, 

 yellow. Male flowers not seen. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 568 ; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. p. 239; Wedd. Monog. Urtic. p. 330; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Kat. V. 12 (1899) p. 516.— Flowers : Sept.-Oct. 



KoNKAN : W. Ghats, Woodrow ; on old walls Malum wood.'<, Bombay, Dalzell ^ 

 Gibson; Bombay, Balzclll; walls at Thana, Gibson \ S. M. Country: Belgaum, 

 Dalzell ^~ Gibson, — Distrib. India (Sikkim Himalaya, W. Peninsula). 



9. BCEHMERIA, Jacq. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate or opposite, toothed, 3- 

 nervedat the base ; stipules usually free, deciduous. Flowers moncecious 

 or dioecious, both sexes in axillary spicate racemose or paniculate 



