962 BENGAL PLANTS. (Pilea. 
or connate in a cupular sae often gibbous or horned dorsally. 
Petals 0. Stamens 2-4. tillode conical or oblong. ¢ Sepals 
3, rarely 4, very an eh iaecae dorsal longest, sometimes 
gibbous or hooded. Staminodes minute or scale-like or 0. Ovary 
straight; ovule ony stigma ene: a Fruit an Ae 
or oblong, compressed, membranous or crustaceous achene, some- 
times clasped at the base by the ees sepals. Seed erect; 
testa thin ; albumen very scanty; cotyledons broad. 
Stout undershrubs ; leaves 3-nerved, nerves and cross nervules strong 
salah 
Minute annual herbs ; leaves penninerved but nerves very obsc 
mier ogni 
1918, Pruea smractronta Wedd.; F. B. I. v. 553; E. D. P. 725. 
pease ng. 
oody undershrub, stems robust 
1919. Bes MIcropHyLta Liebm. P. muscosa F. B. I. v. 551. 
ee minima F. I, iii. 585. 
engal; E. Bengal. 
ry very minute ae extremely common on little used 
roadways and paths and on damp walls. The Gur 
powder plant. 
859. Elatostema Forst. 
Herbs or undershrubs; leaves alternate, or sometimes with a 
minute leaf subopposed to the normal leaf, distichous, sessile or 
sigan very minute, monceci r dicecious, crowded on sessile 
cled, 1-sexual, sil: tniviheatte St we bracts of 
the involuere rounded, oblong or ovate, outer at times with ® 
dorsal spur or horn, bases nearly free or more or less confluent in 
a fleshy circular or lobed disk, the tips projecting from its margiD, 
rarely the margin entire; bracteoles densely crowded, those of ¢ 
heads usually oblong, of ¢ heads spathulate ; ai often in 
clusters in the heads, each cluster surrounded by a partial bract 
and the head then lobulate. 3 Sepals 4 or 5,2 or more usually 
tubercled or spurred on the back. Stamens 4 or 5, inflexed 
mea Pistillode minute. ¢ Sepals 3-5, very minute, much 
r than the ovary, persistent. Staminodes minute oF o- 4 
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