3IO The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



ovate cordate acute, coarsely serrated, flowers in interrupted 

 sessile clusters on long spikes, stamens very elastic. Khdjoti, 

 Jchajkul, vedekotti. 



S. Konkan ; Matheran. A weed in waste places (D. and G.). 



9. ELATOSTEMMA. 



E. cuneatum. A very small plant, with leaves arranged in 

 a rosette at the top of the stem, unequal-sided, narrow at the 

 base, broad and toothed at the top, rough ; flowers in sessile 

 clusters. 



Grows on walls : S. Konkan. Bombay and Belgaum (D.). 



The description above is as I have seen it, but apparently under 

 other conditions the stem lengthens and the leaves separate. " Base 

 of leaf subanricled with sometimes a minnte opposite leaflet " 

 (IT.). 



10. BOEHMERIA. 



E. platypliyllcb (Splitgerbera scabrella, D.). Shrubby, 3 or 

 4 feet high, all rough, leaves very large coarse, long-petioled 

 ovate cordate serrated ; spikes numerous, very long, fruit com- 

 pressed or angled. 



Dapoli. Matheran and Mahableshwar. Eirdwood. Common in 

 hilly jungles of the Konkan (D.). 



The above is my description, but H. calls it a most variable plant, 

 and has nine varieties. The spike and flowers are suggestive of an 

 amaranth. 



B. nivea is the shrub from the bark of which " grass-clofch " is 

 made : a native of the Eastern Islands, cultivated in Bengal. 



11. POUZOLZIA. 



P. Indica. A hairy plant tinged with red, with square 

 stems and ovate pointed entire leaves, often long-petioled ; 

 flowers in sessile clusters within an involucre, hairy and 

 reddish, stamens generally 4, very elastic, fruit winged or 

 not. 



The Konkans. Common in gardens as a weed (D.). 



Throughout tropical and subtropical India (H.). It is very like 

 the English pellitory of the wall, Parietaria, thought by many to be 

 " the hyssop that springeth out of the wall" of 1 Kings iv. 33. 



H. has 5 vars., some prostrate or creeping. 



* P. pentandra, stem angled above, leaves entire narrow lanceolate, 

 lower opposite ; flowers in a terminal spike, stamens 5, fruit with 3 

 broad membranous wings. Caranja (D.). * P. Bennettiana (P. 

 StocTcsii, D.). Straggling, branched, 4-angled, stipules broad scarious, 



