Elatostema."\ cxxxvi. URTICACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 569 



quite glabrous, erect, leaves 3-5 in. sessile or petioled obliquely or falcately 

 oblanceolate or broadly or oblong-ovate acuminate coarsely crenate or 

 serrate from the middle of the lower margin upwards upper subentire, base 

 acute, male recepts long-peduncled, receptacle when large lobed or lacerate 

 often to the base exposing the flowers, fern, sessile. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 3-8000 ft., and KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-6000 ft., J. D. H., 

 Clarke. MISHMI MTS., Griffith. 



Monoecious or dioecious. Stem simple, erect from a shortly creeping base, 8-12 in., 

 stout and subsucculent or slender, and leaves drying green. Leaves rather thick, 

 narrowed to the entire bases, most so in Khasian specimens, which are often very 

 acute and distinctly petioled; cystoliths very many, minute, slender; nerves meeting 

 in the intramarginal basal one; stipules lateral, subulate or lanceolate. Male recepts 

 ^-1 in. diam., lobed ; lobes fleshy, fringed with small ovate acute glabrous bracts; 

 flowers large, pedicelled, 12 sepals spurred ; fern, recepts much smaller, depressed, 

 bracteoles ciliate. Achenes ellipsoid, subcompressed, rather fleshy, not ribbed or 

 striate. The male fl. are much larger than usual in the genus. Small specimens 

 4-8 in. high have oblanceolate' leaves 2 by - f in. 



17. E. G-riffithii, Hook.f. quite glabrous, stem stout erect, leaves 

 5-6 in. subsessile coriaceous obliquely oblanceolate acuminate base 

 narrow acute obtusely serrate from near the base penninerved, fern, 

 recepts long-peduncled large fleshy irregularly lobed with crenulate ciliate 

 margins. 



UPPER ASSAM ; Mistimi Hills, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4537). 



Stem 8-10 in., erect from a densely matted fibrous root, probably fleshy. Leaves 

 green when dry; cystoliths minute, abundant above and on the nerves beneath; 

 basal nerves reaching about half-way ; stipules |-| in., linear, acute, hyaline. Male 

 recepts 1-1J in. diam. ; bracts confluent in a fleshy disk, with crenulate margins, 

 and branching nerves ; peduncles 1-2^ in. ; bracteoles ciliate, membranous, outer 

 broadly oblong, inner narrower or subspathulate, those towards the disk deformed 

 very short ; fern. fl. very shortly pedicelled. Achene ellipsoid, acute at both ends. 

 Named E. ficoideum by Weddell in Herb. Hook, (to the male receptacles of which 

 the females of this bear some resemblance), but it is a very different species, and 

 probably nearest E. dissectum. The male fl. are unknown. 



18. E. papillosum, Wedd. Monogr. 327; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 188; 

 stem stout erect tomentose above, leaves 4-6 in. sessile or shortly petioled 

 thick obliquely elliptic or subrhombic ovate caudate-acuminate crenate 

 or toothed, nerves beneath pubescent, cystoliths microscopic or 0, male 

 recepts stoutly peduncled, invol. bracts large broad rounded, fern, sub- 

 sessile. Procris peduncularis, Watt. Cat. 4634 B. 



SILHET, CACHAE and the KHASIA HILLS, alt. 1-4000 ft., Wallich, &c. CHITTA- 

 GONG, Lister. 



Stem 8-12 in., erect from the swollen or" shortly inclined base, fleshy, naked 

 below. Leaves rather fleshy, drying yellow-brown, opaque, base unequally cuneate 

 or subauricled on the lower margin ; nerves few, sunk in the tissue; stipules lanceo- 

 late or linear. Male recepts \% in. diam., hemispheric; outer invol. bracts glabrous, 

 free, fleshy; bracteoles linear-oblong, ciliate ; fern, recepts rather smaller than the 

 males. Achenes ellipsoid, acute at both ends, acutely ribbed, the ribs rather granular 

 and interrupted, with granules in the interspaces. 



19. E. Clarkei, HooJc. f. quite glabrous, stem simple stout erect 

 rigid, leaves 4-6 in. subsessile coriaceous straight lanceolate acuminate 

 crenate-serrate from a little above the straight acuminate base, male and 

 fern., recepts peduncled subglobose, invol. bracts of male rounded, of fern. 



