992 cxvi. URTicACE^. [Elatostema- 



6. ELATOSTEMA J. E. & G. Forster ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. 

 PI. iii. p. 386. 



1. E. sessile J. E. & G. Forst. Char. Gen. p. 106 (1776); 

 Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. 1, p. 172 (1869). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — In the damp very shady parts of primitive 

 forests at the Delamboa stream ; fl. June 1856. No. 6269. An 

 annual herb ; sap watery ; stems succulent ; leaves blackish green 

 and shining above, paler beneath, somewhat rigid in the living 

 state ; flowers clustered, seated on bracteate somewhat fleshy usually 

 quadrangular and shortly pedunculate receptacles. In especially 

 shady places by streams near Cacarambola ; fl. beginning of July 1855. 

 No. 6270. 



Our specimens are not quite like the type from Tahiti ; though 

 the plant is described by Welwitsch as annual, the stems sometimes 

 throw out adventitious roots near the base ; the leaves (including the 

 acumen) are strongly serrate-dentate, 1 to 4^ in. long by -} to If in. 

 broad, acutely acuminate, more or less conspicuously marked with 

 linear cystoliths, and glabrous except the midrib and principal veins 

 beneath. I prefer to consider them as representing a variety of the 

 above variable species, but on the scale of species as treated by 

 Weddell it might be regarded as new. Cf . Henriques, Bol. Soc. Brot. 

 X. p. 1G3 (1893), where our plant (no. 6269) is said to be identical 

 with a supposed new species from the island of St. Thomas. 



7. POUZOLZIA Gaudich. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 387. 



1. P. procridioides Wedd. Monogr. Urtic. p. 412 (1856), and 

 in DC. Prodr. xvi. 1, p. 231 (1869). 



Urtica jyrocridiodes E. Mey. ex Drege in Flora 1843, ii. Bes. 

 Beigabe, pp. 150, 151, 228. Margarocarpus procridioides Wedd. 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, i. p. 204 (1854). B'Ohmeria (Mar- 

 garocarpus) procridioides Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. ii. p. 204^ 

 (1856). 



Bumbo. — A herb with the habit of a Parietaria. In marshy 

 bushy places near Bumbo, sporadic ; fl, and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 6278. 



This differs from the type of the species by the presence of 

 trimerous and triandrous male flowers in company with tetramerous 

 and tetrandrous ones. 



2. P. andongensis Hiern, sp. n. 



An erect, annual herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, growing in dense 

 masses ; stems very tenacious, simple naked and glabrescent 

 below, sparingly branched leafy and hispid-pubescent above, 

 as ^?ell as the branches densely leafy at the apex ; leaves mostly- 

 alternate, ovate or elliptical-ovate, acuminate at the apex, more 

 or less wedgeshaped at the trinerved base, submembranous, deep 

 green and with pallid adpressed scattered hairs above, whitish 

 and more or less arachnoid beneath, entire, 2 to 3§ in. long by 

 1 to '2\ in. broad ; lateral veins about two on each side of the 

 midrib in addition to the basal nerves, in relief on the lower face 

 of the blade, impressed on the upper face ; cystoliths punctiform ; 

 petioles hispid-pilose, ranging up to 2-J in. long ; stipules ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate-caudate, glumaceous, uninerved, hispid 

 along the back, ciliate, J to }r in. long ; lateral or axillary 



