568 cxxxvi. URTICACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Elatostemti. 



out its length pubescent or tomentose leafy throughout, leaves -1$ in. 

 membranous sessile broadly obliquely oblong sharply serrate nearly 

 throughout, tip rounded, lower base auricled, cystoliths crowded minute, 

 male recepts small sessile, invol. bracts few rounded hyaline, outer free and 

 sepals with a long slender dorsal spur. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, at the foot of the outer hills, alt. 1-4000 ft., Herb. Griffith 

 (Kew Distrib. 4535), &c. CHITTAGONG, at Burkul, Clarke. 



Stem 1-2 ft., spreading from a perennial stock, flaccid, simple or branched. 

 Leaves glabrous or nerves pubescent beneath, green or yellow when dry ; nerves 

 spreading; cystoliths minute but conspicuous; stipules small. Male recepts \ in. 

 diam., globose ; invol. bracts and bracteoles almost hyaline, with remarkably slender 

 spurs; bracteoles ciliate. Weddell has named this (in Herb. Hook.) IE. sessile, 

 var. minor, but it has no affinity with that species. It is very near E. cornutum, 

 differing in the sessile heads and pubescence, and if, as is possible, the characters of 

 sessile and peduncled heads are deceiving, it may prove a form of that plant. 



14 E. pusillum, Clarke mss. ; dwarf, very slender, suberect, glabrous 

 or pubescent, leaves few i-1 in. membranous sessile obliquely elliptic or 

 oblong obtuse entire or with a large tooth on each margin, base acute with 

 sometimes an opposite leaflet, recepts minute sessile, invol. bracts free 

 oblong or lanceolate ciliate. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; Simla, alt. 7-8000 ft., Thomson; Kumaon, alt. 10- 

 11,000 ft., Duthie; Sikkim, alt. 10,000 ft., Clarke. 



Stem 1 6 in., annual, simple, solitary, flaccid. 'Leaves glabrous or puberulous; 

 nerves very faint; cystoliths very many and crowded, large for the size of the plant. 

 Recepts -^-^ in. diam., of both sexes sessile ; bracteoles like the bracts, but smaller. 

 Achene fusiform, striate. 



15. E. cuneatum, Wight Ic. t. 2091, f. 3 ; dwarf, stem stout and 

 leaves pubescent, leaves few f-1^ in. sessile falcately cuneate or hatchet- 

 shaped, coarsely crenate above the middle, tip rounded or subacute, base 

 subauricled with sometimes a minute opposite leaflet, fern, heads sessile, 

 invol. bracts of fern, confluent below in a fleshy disk, tips ovate acuminate 

 ciliate produced beyond the flowers. Wedd. Monogr. 330 ; Dalz. $ G-ibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 239 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. i. ii. 246. 3j)_. Webbianum, Wedd. in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, i. 190. E. approximatum, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. 

 i. 190. Procris approximate, Wall. Cat. 4630. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 6000 ft., Clarke. The CONCAN, on old walls, &c., Law, 

 &c. TENASSERIM, Gomez; at Mergui, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4545). DISTKIB. 

 Java. 



Stem 4-6 in., simple, glabrous or strigose. Leaves membranous, drying brown, 

 often sparsely setose above, crenate chiefly on the lower margin ; nerves very slender, 

 with connecting arches within the margin, basal pair not reaching the middle ; 

 cystoliths numerous, slender; stipules ovate. Fern, recepts |- in. diam.; invol. 

 bracts pubescent ; bracteoles ciliate. Achene minute, ellipsoid, ribbed. 



** Male receptacles on usually long peduncles ; short in 

 and Treutleri, sometimes in E. Clarkei and others; sessile in forms of E. 

 surculosum. (Male fl. unknown in E. Griffithii and procridioides.) 



f Leaves acuminate or caudate (except in forms of E. surculosum). 



a. Bracts of male receptacle rounded, or broadly ovate, none produced 

 into a spur beyond the receptacle. 



16. E. dissectum, Wedd. Monogr. 314 ; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 182 ; 



