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usually simple crowded cymes. Male perianth in. long. P. ceplia- 
lida, Comm. ; Bojer , Hort. Maur. 29 4. P. integrifolia, Bojer , loc. cit. 
non D. Don. 
Mauritius and Seychelles, in dense woods. Spread through the tropics 
of the Old World. P. integrifolia , Bojer, is simply a form with small entire leaves 
and quite different from the Himalayan plant of D. Don, which is an Elatostema. 
4. ELATOSTEMA, Forst. 
Monoicous or dioicous, the flowers of both sexes placed on a flat 
fleshy receptacle surrounded by an involucre, and mixed with linear 
bracts. Male perianth with 4-5 segments mucronate below the tip, and 
4-5 perigynous stamens surrounding a rudimentary pistil. Female 
perianth usually triphylious and minute. Ovary oblong, surrounded 
by rudimentary stamens ; stigma sessile, densely penicillate. Fruit a 
compressed superior achene. — Annual or perennial herbs, with dis- 
tichous, usually alternate leaves and copious sessile or peduncled heads. 
Distrib. Tropics of the Old world. Species 50. 
1. E. fagifolium. Gaud. ; Wedd. in DC. Prod. xvi. 174. A 
dioicous perennial herb, 1-2 feet high, simple or little branched, 
glabrous or nearly so in all its parts, with firm suffruticose stems. 
Leaves 3-9 in. long, oblique, oblanceolate, acuminate, unequally cuneate 
at the base, inciso-crenate, membranous, bright green, penninerved, 
with distinct veinlets and copious dots ; petiole in. long ; stipules 
linear, |-1 in. long. Heads numerous, globose, sessile or shortl} 
peduncled, in. broad ; bracts of the involucre i in. long, lanceolate, 
acute, similar to the leaves in texture. Segments of the male periantl i 
ovate, with a bristly mucro. Procris fagifolia, Poir. ; Bojer. Hort. 
Maur . 294. 
Mauritius, in dense woods, usually on old trunks. Also Bourbon, Madagascar 
and Comoros. 
5. URERA, Gaud. 
Flowers polygamo-dioicous. Maleperianth 4-5-partite, with ovate seg- 
ments, membranous at the tip, and 4-5 stamens round a rudimentary 
pistil. Female perianth gamophyllous, with 4 unequal lobes. Ovary 
ovoid, straight or oblique, with a subsessile penicillate stigma. Fruit 
a compressed achene included in the fleshy cupular perianth, but en- 
tirely superior. — Erect or climbing shrubs, sometimes as in our plant 
glabrous, sometimes furnished with stiuging bristles ; leaves alternate ; 
flowers in axillary heads or cymes. Distrib. Bound the world in the 
tropics. Species 18. 
1. TJ. acuminata, Gaudich. ; Wedd. in DC. Prod. xvi. 96. A sub- 
scandent shrub, glabrous in all its parts, with smooth brown branchlets 
