574 cxxxvi. URTICACE^}. (J. D. Hooker.) [Elatostema. 



29. E. cornutum, Wedd. Monogr. 316 ; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 183 (r.rr7. 

 syn. Procris gibbosa) ; stem slender creeping and rooting flaccid, leaves 

 1-2| in. sessile or petioled obliquely or falcately oblong or orbicular 

 obtuse or acute sharply serrate nearly throughout, base auricled on the 

 lower side or on both and amplexicaul, male recepts long-peduncled, outer 

 invol. bracts free rounded concave with a long slender dorsal spur. 



SFKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 1-4000 ft., J. D. H., Clarke. K a AST A MTS., alt. 

 0-4000 ft., J. D. H. # T. T. 



Stems trailing, branched, glabrou . Leaves membranous, pale green, puberulous 

 on the nerves beneath, cystoliths minute, slender ; stipules lanceolate, acuminate. 

 Male recepts - in. diam., pale green ; peduncle 1-3 in. ; invol. bracts glabrous, 

 membranous, hyaline ; bracteoles linear, hyaline ; male fl. few, sepals apiculate. 

 Fein, recepts not seen. See remarks under E. reptans. 



DOUBTFUL AND IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



30. E. CILIATUM, Clarke mss. ; stem simple ascending from a creep- 

 ing base glabrous, leaves 5-7 in. few membranous subsessile rather 

 obliquely linear-oblong or oblanceolate acuminate coarsely serrate pale 

 beneath base narrowed acute or obtuse sparsely setose with slender bristles 

 above and especially towards the margins, fern, recepts small subsessile from 

 the stem below the leaves, invol. bracts confluent in a thick tomentose entire 

 disk, achene costate. 



MUNNIPORE ; on the Barak River, alt. 300 ft.,- Clarke. 



Stem ascending from a rather fleshy creeping and stoloniferous baso, 6-10 in. 

 high, rather slender, naked below. Leaves green when dry, youug strongly ciliate, 

 penninerved ; nerves 4-6 pairs above the basal, strigosely ciliate beneath, slender but 

 prominent, basal pair reaching beyond the middle ; teeth acute or cuspidate ; 

 oystoliths abundant; stipules in., oblong, green, sometimes in pairs or scattered on, 

 the stem below the leaves. Fern, recepts $ in. diam. Achene turgidly ellipsoid, 

 acute. The specimens are indifferent. The ciliate leaves are very peculiar. 



31. E. ELLIPTICUM, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. 186; quite glabrous, stem 

 long slender creeping and rooting branched, leaves 2~li by -g 1 in. petioled 

 fleshy elliptic obtuse nearly equilateral quite entire rigid when dry, base 

 rounded or subcordate triple-nerved, cystoliths minute on the upper surface 

 cnly, petiole \-% in., stipules small ovate-lanceolate, male recepts (very 

 young in. long) shortly peduncled solitary ovoid. 



MISHBII HILLS ; at Khoshai, Griffith. May be a Pellionia near P. Duvauana. 



32. E. NOVAR,J, Kurz in Journ. Seng. As. Soc. xlv. ii. 149; a glabrous 

 branched undershrub, leaves 3-6 in. alternate subsessile membranous 

 black when dry obliquely lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate repand serrate 

 subulate-acuminate, cystoliths scattered, lateral nerves confluent towards 

 the margin, stipules ^- in. subulate deciduous, flowers subglabrous as in. 

 E. lineolatum, crowded in the axils. 



NICOBAR ISLANDS; at Nankowry (Novara Exped.). 



Differs from E. lineolatum in the blackening leaves, different nervation, smaller 

 flowers and flower clusters. Description from Kurz ; my specimens (from Dr. King) 

 are very indifferent. 



URTICA, G-riff. Notul. iv. 404; Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 562, f. 2, from Tongue, in 

 "Rhotsin, may be an Elatostema, but the transverse nervation is unlike any species 

 known to me. 



