362 cxxix. urticace-iE. [Pellionia. 
inaequilateral, glabrous on both sides, 4 to 5 in. long, 2*25 to 2-5 in. 
wide; petioles *x to 3-5 in. long; male cymes slender, about 1 in. 
long; branches spreading, *75 in. long. Female heads dense, -25 in. 
across, not spreading, sub-capitate. Hab. Johor, Gunong Pantai. 
Pahang, Kwala Tembeling; Kota Glanggi. Selangor, Batu Caves; 
Ginting Bidai. Perak. Kelantan, Kwala Aring (Yapp). Distrib. 
Tenasserim, Andamans. 
(2) P. javanica Wedd. Monogr. 288; Hook. fil. F.B.I, 
v. 561; Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. By. 59, p. 187. 
Rhizome creeping. Leaves rather stiff, chartaceous, dark 
green, glabrous above, pale beneath with appressed hairs on midrib, 
ovate acuminate or cuspidate blunt, base narrowed, 3-nerved with 
conspicuous lateral nervules 4 to 7 in. long, 2 to 3 in. wide; 
petioles -5 to 6 in. long. Male inflorescence long peduncled; 
peduncle 3 in. long or shorter and nearly sessile. Flowers green 
tipped pink, densely crowded in heads on branched capitate cymes. 
Females densely crowded in capitate cymes, branched about 1 in. 
long, peduncled as in male. Achenes pustular pink. Hab. Perak, 
Temengoh; Maxwell's Hill. Penang Hill and Balik Pulau (Curtis); 
Penara Bukit. Setul, Bukit Rajah Wang (Ridley). 
var. acaulis Ridl. l.c. P. acaulis Hook. fil. l.c. 562. Dwarf 
plant with short petioles; nerves and petiole more hairy. In¬ 
florescence compact, Perak, Temengoh. Penang Hill, Pulau 
Belong (Curtis). 
Erroneously described as from Java by Weddell. 
(3) P. Curtisii Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 82, p. 196. 
Half shrubby branched herb a foot tall. Leaves oblique 
elliptic-acuminate, base narrowed inaequilateral, sub-sessile edge at 
apex undulate obscurely serrate, 3*5 in. long, 1*5 in. wide. Male 
flowers pedicelled; pedicels -2 in. long in a large cluster *75 in. 
long at base of plant. Sepals 5, oblong, -i in. long, blunt. Sta¬ 
mens 5; filaments very short. Female flowers in an axillary 
sessile head in an upper axil *25 in. through. Sepals lanceolate, 
keeled, keel prolonged into a subulate point 4 to 5. Stigma peni- 
cillate. Achene ovoid, flat pustular. Hab. Rare, Perak, Bujong 
Malacca (Curtis, Aug. 1898). 
(4) P. Duvauana N.E.Br. III. Hort. xxix. 189, t. 472. P. 
pulchra N.E.Br. Gard. Chron. 1882, xviii. 712. 
Prostrate creeping herb. Leaves fleshy sessile obliquely oblong, 
tip round, base round inaequilateral, crenate; nerves pubescent; 
1-25 to 3 in. long, *75 to 1-5 in. wide. Stipules large ovate acuminate 
persistent. Male cymes long-peduncled, branched pubescent; 
peduncle 3 in. long, cyme 2 in. across. 
var. viridis Ridley. Leaves pale green. Hab. On banks in 
forest, common, Pahang River; Tahan River. Negri Sembilan, 
Bukit Sulu (Cantley). Selangor, Batu Caves. Perak, Ulu Bubong, 
