564 CXXXTI. URTICACE5). (J. D. Hooker.) [Elatostema. 



Var. cuspidata, Wedd. 1. c. ; leaves glabrous or setose above and pubescent on tbe 

 nerves beneath, base acute rarely rounded or subauricled. E. cuspidatum, Wight Ic. 

 t. 1983 (not 2091, f. 1). E. affine, Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, i. 188, Himalaya, 

 Silhet, Nilghiris. 



Var. pubescens ; stem and leaves more or less substrigosely tomentose, leaf -base 

 acute or rounded. Nilgbiris, Naga Hills, Penang. 



Var. hispidula ; leaves smaller rugose, hispidly setose beneath. 



Var. polycephala ; leaves as in var. cuspidata but base auricled, glabrous or 

 hispidulous beneath, receptacles small clustered shortly peduncled. E. sessile, ft. 

 punctata, Wedd. I.e. E. poly ceph alum, Wedd. in Ann. So. Nat. I.e. 189. Procris 

 polycephala, Wall. Cat. 4629. P. punctata, Ham. in Don Prodr. 61. Hima- 

 laya. 



3. E. molle, Wedd. Monogr. 298 ; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 173; stem and 

 leaf-nerves beneath strigosely pubescent, leaves 3-5 in. subsessile coriaceous 

 obliquely elliptic-lanceolate acuminate or caudate crennlate or serrulate 

 throughout their length strongly reticulate beneath, recepts sessile and sub- 

 sessile, in vol. bracts of male rounded confluent below. Procris molls, Wall. 

 Cat. 4633. 



ASSAM ; on the Dupbla Hills, alt. 2000 ft., Lister. KHASIA MTS., Herb. Cal- 

 cutt. ? CHITTAGONG-, Clarke. PENANG, Phillips. SINGAPOBE, Wallich. 



Stem erect, stout, anguhir, branched. Leaves rather rigid, pale when dry, base 

 very oblique, hardly auricled, sometimes petioled, nerves very strong beneath ; 

 cystoliths minute, crowded; stipules very long, ^1 in., lanceolate. Heads dioecious; 

 male ^-f in. diam. ; invol. bracts broad, scarious, puberulous. Fern, heads not seen. 

 The very small leaf-serratures are one good character of this species. 



4. E. rupestre, Wedd. Monogr. 304; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 177; stem 

 stout rigid erect and leaf-nerves beneath substrigosely tomentose, leaves 

 4-6 in. subsessile obliquely (or not) narrowly elliptic or linear-lanceolate 

 caudate serrate from above the middle lower third many-nerved, base 

 acute, recepts sessile or subsessile, invol. bracts rounded confluent at the 

 base only. Procris rupestris, Ham. in Don Prodr. 60. P. punctata, Wall. 

 Cat. 4627 A. 



NEPAL, Wallich. KHASTA MTS., usually on rocks in beds of streams, alt. 1-4000 ft., 

 J. D. H., &c. CHITTAGONG, Clarke. DISTKIB. Java (Weddell). 



Dioecious. Stems 610 in., very stout, erect from a running stock, often branched. 

 Leaves brown when dry, suberect, young silky, base sometimes very narrow and 

 straight; cystoliths small, crowded; stipules -f in., linear-lanceolate, acuminate. 

 Receptacles sessile or subsessile, -1 in. diam.; invol. bracts of male rounded, 

 pubescent or villous; bracteoles of fern, woolly. Achene very minute, warted. 

 Differs from E. molle in the narrower acutely serrate leaves. I have seen no Javan 

 specimens. 



5. E. sesquifolium, Hassle. Cat. Hort. Bogor. 79 ; shrubby, leaves 

 4-10 in. (or less) subsessile or petioled obliquely, oblong elliptic or lanceolate 

 caudate-acuminate quite entire, cystoliths crowded conspicuous, recepts 

 small usually crowded lobed subsessile, invol. bracts rounded, of male 

 glabrate, of fern, tomentose. Wedd. Monogr. 308 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 

 243. E. cuspidiferum, Miq. PI. Jungh. i. 22. E. Miquelianum & Zollingeri- 

 anum, Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, i. 188. E. integrifolium, Wedd. in 

 DC. Prodr. xv. i. 179. E. lineolatum, in part, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. fy T. 

 Procris integrifolia, Don Prodr. 61. P. piperifolia, Wall. Cat. 4628. P. 

 sesquifolia, Beinwdt. in Blunt e Bijd. 51. 



ASSAM and the lower KHASIA MTS., to CHITTAGONG, BUBMA and the ANDAMAN 

 and NICOBAE ISLANDS. DISTBIB. Java. 



