cxxxvi. URTICAUE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 561 



with linear-lanceolate sepals. Elatostemma bulbiferum, Kurz in Journ. As, 

 Soc. Seng. 1873, ii. 104. 



TENASSEBIM ; at Attran, Kurz, Srandis. 



Stem erect, 6-12 in., branched; axillary bulbs |-^ in. diam. Leaves scattered, 

 3-5 in., with sometimes a very small opposite one ; base entire, cuneateor subauricled 

 on one side ; nerves very slender, basal about half the length of the leaf; cystoliths 

 very obscure. Peduncles 1-2 in., capillary ;. male cymes few-fld., subumbellately 

 branched; pedicels very short ; fern, recepts in. diam. ; involucral bracts numerous, 

 ovate-lanceolate, glabrous ; bracteoles linear-lanceolate ; sepals much longer than 

 the young fruit. 



7. P. burmanica. Hook. f. ; quite glabrous, stem very slender 

 flexuous, leaves membranous broadly obliquely ovate or ovate-oblong 

 caudate coarsely crenate toothed or serrate, fern, heads axillary sessile 

 disciform. 



TENASSERIM, Gallatly (Herb. Sort. Sot. Calcutt. No. 1033). 



Stem a span long, very flexuous. Leaves 2-4 in., base cuneate or subauricled on 

 the lower margin ; nerves very slender, basal not half the length of the leaf ; cysto- 

 liths very obscure. Fern, heads ^- in. diam. ; involucral bracts numerous, lanceo- 

 late, confluent except at the tips ; bracteoles lanceolate ; sepals linear-oblong, 

 exceeding the broadly elliptic tubercled achene. Very near P. bulbifera, but the 

 leaves are broader, more toothed than serrate, and the fern, heads are perfectly sessile. 

 Male infl. not seen. 



** Leaves large, quite entire; stipules usually large, scarious, lanceolate 

 with long points, very persistent. 



8. P. Heyneana, Wedd. Monogr. 287, t. 5 ; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 169 ; 

 stem woody below, leaves short-petioled or subsessile falcately oblong or 

 elliptic-lanceolate obtusely acuminate quite entire 3-nerved, base unequally 

 cordate, nerves pubescent beneath, male and fern. infl. stoutly peduncled. 

 Procris Heyneana, Wall. Cat. 7272. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; Nilghiri and Travancore Mts., Heyne, &c. CEYLON, in the 

 Central Province. 



Stems 6-10 in., from a branched woody creeping base; tips hirsute. Leaves 

 4-8 in., coriaceous, with often minute subalternating leaflets, grey with many 

 cystoliths when dry ; petiole -nj-s m -> stout, and midrib hirsute ; stipules large. 

 Male fl. in lax or dense cymes, or capitate, and peduncle villous j fern, capitate, and 

 peduncle glabrous ; sepals of fern, subequal, denticulate, mucronate, ciliate. Achenes 

 compressed, tubercled. 



9. P. Helferiana, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 170; stem stout 

 creeping, leaves long-petioled subfalcately ovate-oblong caudate quite entire, 

 nerves pubescent beneath, male infl. capitate very stoutly peduncled. 



TENASSEEIM, Heifer, Griffith. ? ANDAMAN ISLANDS, King's Collector. 



Very near to P. Heyneana, but the petioles are much longer, -l in. The 

 specimens are very imperfect in young male fl. only. The Andaman Islands plant 

 has capitate fern. infl. with more slender peduncles. 



10. P. javanica, Wedd. Monogr. 187 ; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 170; quite 

 glabrous, stem short, leaves long-petioled subfalcately oblong or elliptic- 

 lanceolate obtusely caudate quite entire, base subacute, fern, cymes much 

 branched very long-peduncled. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 239. Pilea 

 javanica, Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, i. 187. 



PENANG, Curtis. SINGAPORE, Lobb. DISTRIB. Java ?. 



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