566 cxxxvi. URTICACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Elatostema. 



7. E. Walkeree, HooJc.f. \ stem short simple tips strigosely pubescent, 

 leaves 3-4 in. sessile or very shortly petioled broadly obliquely oblong or 

 cuneate-obovate caudate coarsely crenate above the middle or upper third, 

 sparsely setose on both surfaces, penniuerved, base obliquely cordate, fern, 

 recepts small sessile, invol. bracts confluent into a fleshy disk with a mem- 

 branous crenate ciliate margin. 



CEYLON ; Central Province, Walker, alt. 4000 ft., Thwaites (C.P. 3767). 



Stem 4-10 in., woody below, terete, flexuous, rather stout. Leaves sometimes 

 nearly as broad as long, rather thin, dull dark green when dry, setae of the upper 

 surface with sometimes bulbous bases, of the lower softer ; nerves 4-5 pairs above the 

 basal, spreading, and costa very slender and faint; cystoliths on the upper surface, 

 minute. Recepts closely appreesed to the branch. Achenes turgidly ellipsoid, ribbed, 

 pedicel very short. Male fl. unknown. 



8. E. subincisum, Wedd. Monogr. 314; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 182; 

 herbaceous, glabrous, leaves 1-2^ in. sessile membranous obliquely oblong- 

 lanceolate caudate deeply snbpinnatifidly crenate or serrate or base sub- 

 auricled on the lower margin, stipules linear-lanceolate, recepts sessile or 

 subsessile, invol. bracts rounded outer stoutly mucronate. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 7-10,000 ft., J. D.H., Clarke, King. 



Stem 8-10 in., erect, usually slender, simple or branched. Leaves drying brown, 

 nerves 3-4 pairs above the basal ; cystoliths very minute. Mecepts about |- in. 

 diam., often androgynous; bracts hardly exceeding the flowers, inner keeled ; fern, 

 bracts membranous ; bracteoles ciliate. Achenes ellipsoid, ribbed, The herbaceous 

 habit distinguishes this from E. acuminatum. It resembles var. sulincisa of E. 

 surculosum, but the absence of the small opposite leaves and the minute cystoliths 

 distinguish it. 



9. IS. acuminatum. Brong. in Duperr. Voy. Bot. 211 ; slender, much 

 branched, often woody below, quite glabrous, leaves subsessile 3-6 in. 

 membranous obliquely oblong or oblanceolate caudate coarsely crenate- 

 toothed above the lower third or higher, base acute or subacute, cystoliths 

 invisible, recepts small or minute sessile, invol. bracts minute. Wedd. 

 Monogr. 311, t. 9 D ? f. 1-4 ; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 181 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 

 244. E. membranifolia, Kurz in Jo-urn. -As. Soc. Beng. xlii. (1823) ii. 204. 

 Procris acuminata, Pair. Encycl. iv. 629. P. membranacea, Meinwdt. in 

 Blume Bijd. 512. Boehmeria acuminata, Gaud, in Freyc. Voy. Bot. 494. 

 Langeveldia acuminata, Gaud. Voy. Uranie Bot. 494. 



KHASIA MTS., Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4538), Clarke, alt. 1-3000 ft. TENASSERIM 

 at Thoungyen, Brandis. PEBAK, Scortechini, King's Collector. MALACCA, Griffith, 

 &c. TEAVANCOBE, on the Anamallay Hills, Beddome. CEYLON; in the Central 

 Province, alt. 3000 ft., Macrae, Thwaites. DISTEIB. Java. 



Stem smooth, terete, woody below, slender, branches divaricate. Heads sessile, 

 solitary, monoecious or dioecious, males pisiform, fern, smaller. Thwaites' specimens 

 have leaves 6 by 2 in., Beddome's 3-5 by 1-1 ; the Perak, Malacca and Tenasserim 

 ones 2-3 by ^-f in. ; these last have fewer teeth and much longer entire points, they 

 are sometimes glaucous beneath, and resemble those of E. lineolatum, var. Wightii ; 

 from all forms of which species the invisibility of cystoliths under an ordinary lens 

 at once distinguishes this. The Khasia, Ceylon and Tenasserim form is that of a 

 slender shrub with smooth terete still' woody branches. In Thwaites' specimens 1 find 

 very minute puuctiform cystoliths. 



10. E. platyphyllum, Wedd. Monogr. 301; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 175; 

 tall, robust, leaves 6-10 by 3-7 in. sessile or petioled coriaceous broadly 

 obliquely rhomboid to oblong-lanceolate cuspidate or caudate-acuminate 



