560 cxxxvi. URTICACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Pdlionia. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; at Yoksun, alt. 5000 ft., J. D. H. KHASIA MTS. ; at 

 Nurtiung, alt. 4000 ft., Clarke. 



Stem 6-10 in., stout, ascending from a creeping base. Leaves 2-2 in., rather 

 thick, quite glabrous ; stipules subulate. Male cymes with subulate bracts and 

 bracteoles; fern. -5 in. diam. or shorter, slender; peduncles \ in. long, branches so 

 short as to be hidden by the flowers ; bracts subulate ; sepals lanceolate, very 

 unequal, much longer than the tubercled ellipsoid achenes. The Khasian specimens 

 are in male fl. only, and more slender than the Sikkirn ones. 



3. P. stenocarpa, Wedd. Monogr. 284, t. 5, f. 13, 15; DO. Prodr. 

 xvi. i. 168 ; glabrous, leaves alternate subsessile obliquely oblong or elliptic- 

 lanceolate acuminate coarsely serrate above the lower third or middle, base 

 acute or obtuse, male cymes long-peduncled corymbose, fern, sessile capitate, 

 sepals subequal mucronate, achene narrow subcylindric minutely warted. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 1-4000 ft., J. D. H. # T. T. (Weddell). 



Dioecious or monoecious. Stem erect, 4 in. Leaves f-2 by ^-f in., mem- 

 branous, whitish beneath and reticulated with cystoliths ; stipules 2, linear, persistent. 

 Male peduncle ^-1| in. Fern, cymes nearly as in Elatostema, but with the bracteoles 

 much shorter than the pedicels of the flowers; fruiting sepals about equal in length, 

 but with unequal mucros. Achene narrowed from the middle to the tip, about twice 

 as long as the sepals, equally minutely warted. I find no specimens answering to 

 this amongst Thomson's and my collections. Weddell describes the fern, heads as like 

 those of an Elatostema, to which the achene would seem to refer it. 



4. P. ambig-ua, Wedd. Monogr. 285; DC. Prodr. xvi. i 168; 

 nearly glabrous, leaves alternate sessile obliquely oblong-lanceolate or 

 elliptic penninerved coarsely serrate above the entire obtuse or subcordate 

 base, male cymes long-peduncled very contracted ca'pitellate, fern, sessile, 

 male sepals subequal mucronate with long points, achenes ellipsoid 

 tubercled. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 0-4000 ft., J. D. H. 8f T. T. 



Stem simple, 4-6 in. Leaves 3-5 by f-H in., puberulous on the midrib above 

 and nerves beneath ; minute linear or subulate leaves occur in some specimens alter- 

 nating with the larger. Male cymes with very short branches forming obconical 

 heads ;| in. long and broad; bracts subulate; flowers rather loug-pedicelled. Fern, 

 heads if on the same phint with the male in the upper axils, in. diam, ; bracts 

 subulate, exceeding the flowers. 



5. P. Duvauana, N. E. Br. in 111. Sortie, xxix. 189, t. 472 ; Gard. 



Chron. xviii. (1882) 712 ; prostrate, leaves sessile broadly obliquely oblong 

 or orbicular coarsely crenate tip obtuse or rounded, nerves pubescent, stipules 

 large ovate acuminate persistent, male cymes long and stoutly peduncled 

 branched pubescent, bracts minute. Elatostema gibbosa, Kurz in Journ. 

 As. Soc. Seng. xlii. ii. 104. Procris gibbosa, Wall. Cat. 7273. 



PEGU, Brandis. PERAK, Scortechini, Wray, &c. DISTEIB. Cochin China. 



Stem or branches 1-2 ft., succulent, creeping below, tips pubescent. Leaves 

 1-2^ in., fleshy ? ; stipules in pairs, in. long, scarious. Male peduncle 1-5 in. ; 

 branches irregular, divaricate ; flowers large, outer sepal gibbous; fern. fl. and fruit 

 unknown. Wallich's No. 7273 is doubtfully referred to Slat, cornutum, by 

 Weddell. 



6. P. bulbifera, Hoolc.f. ; very slender, quite glabrous, axils bulbi- 

 ferous, leaves membranous subsessile obliquely elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate 

 acuminate or caudate coarsely serrate, male and fern. infl. on long slender 

 pedicels, male fl. cymose pedicelled, feai. on a disciform involucrate head 



