570 cxxxvi. URTICACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Elatoatema. 



ovate obtuse or acute pubescent, achenes narrowly oblong terete quite 

 smooth. 



LOWEB BENGAL; at Shooshung, near Mymensingh, Clarke. Also in MUNNJPOKE 

 and the NAGA HILLS, alt. 500 ft., Clarke. 



Stem erect from a short creeping base, probably succulent, hard angled and 

 grooved when dry, naked below. Leaves the narrowest of the lar<;e-leaved species, 

 drying rigid and yellowish, opaque ; basal nerves produced to near the tip, lateral 

 faint very oblique ; stipules linear-oblong, membranous, deciduous; cystoliths minute, 

 conspicuous in the youngest leaves only of the Mymeusingh specimens, but all over the 

 upper surface of the Naga Hills ones. Recepts i-1 in. diam., often lobed : invol. 

 bracts coriaceous, concave, ciliate; bracts of fern, much more numerous, outer 

 sometimes shortly spurred at the back ; peduncles i-1 in., erect, rather slender. 



20. E. Wig-htii, Hook. f. ; quite glabrous, stem stout branched, 

 leaves 3-4 in. sessile subfalcately oblong-lanceolate subcaudately acumi- 

 nate very coarsely subserrately toothed from above the lower third base 

 subacute, cystoliths abundant, male recepts long and stoutly peduncled, 

 invol. bracts rounded membranous, fern, sessile much smaller. 



NILGHIRI MTS. ; at Avalanche, Wight (Kew Dislrib. 2692). 



Dioecious. Stem erect from the root, succulent, branches divaricate. Leaves 

 3-7 in,, rather succulent, yellowish when dry, base unequal, of lower margin straight 

 or rounded ; cystoliths very many, small; basal nerves hardly produced beyond the 

 middle, supra-basal one or two pairs not inarching; stipules very short, broad. Male 

 recepts | in. ; peduncle 1-2 in., spreading, bracts green, glabrous; fern, smaller, 

 silvery ; bracteoles linear, fimbriate. Achenes fusiform, ribbed. 



b. Bracts of male receptacle very unequal, 2 or more of the outer spurred 

 or acuminate and produced beyond the others (or rounded in some vars. of 

 E. surculosum). 



21. E. procridioides, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 180; erect, quite 

 glabrous, leaves 4-6 in. sessile or shortly petioled elliptic, or obliquely 

 ovate-oblong acuminate quite entire, base unequal, nerves spreading, 

 male recepts long-peduncled large, outer invol. bracts ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate acuminate, 2 or more with dorsal flattened horns exceeding the 

 others. 



The KHASIA MTS., Griffith ; alt. -6000 ft., Clarke. UPPEE ASSAM, in the Tea 

 districts, in the MISHMI HILLS. UPPER BUKMA, Griffith. 



Stem erect from the base, probably fleshy, simple or branched, stout or slender. 

 Leaves fleshy or thin, opaque and dark greenish brown when dry, p.iler beneath, base 

 unequally cuueate or acute ; nerves 4-5 pairs above the basal, spreading ; cystoliths 

 small, slender, numerous ; petiole short; stipules - in. Male recepts 1 in. diam. 

 and less ; peduncle 1-3 in., slender or stout ; invol. bracts confluent in a fleshy disk 

 with many ovate acute points, glabrous; bracteoles cuneate ; flowers large, many ; 

 2 or more sepals horned. -Female recepts not seen. 



22. E. decipiens, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 176; stem often tall 

 stout erect from a long creeping base and leaf-nerves beneath rusty 

 puberulous, leaves 4-8 in. sessile or petioled membranous broadly obliquely 

 oblong or obovate-oblong caudate-acuminate coarsely serrate from above 

 the subauricled base, male recepts sessile or shortly peduncled, 2 outer 

 invol. bracts with long fleshy horns. 



KHASIA Mrs. ; at Nunklow, alt. 4-5000 ft., J. D. H. MUNNIPOEE ; on Kohhna, 

 alt. 6000 ft., Clarice. 



Stem rather fleshy, 2-3 ft. high. Leaves amongst the largest of the Indian 



