Pellionia .] cxxix. urticaceaj. 363 
and Larut Hills (Kunstler); Temengoh; Kenering (Wray). Kedah. 
Setul, Batu Bungah. Kelantan, Kota Bharu. Distrib. Tenasserim. 
var. pulcherrima. Leaves purple, variegated with grey green 
above, on limestone rocks, Lankawi. Distrib. S. Siam, Cambodia. 
Native name : Akar Sisik Naga Bukit. 
Often cultivated as a pot plant in the Straits. The original P. Duvauana 
Brown was the ornamental variety pulcherrima. 
21 . ELATOSTEMA, Forst. 
Herbs on rocks in streams, or undershrubs. Leaves alternate 
distichous, sessile or nearly so, oblique and unequal sided, 3-nerved 
at base, toothed. Flowers minute in sessile or peduncled heads, 
involucral bracts round or oblong or confluent in a fleshy disc; 
bracteoles crowded oblong in male, spathulate in female heads. 
Males; sepals 4 to 5, two or more spurred or tubercled on back. 
Stamens 4 to 5 indexed. Female sepals 3 to 5 very minute; stigma 
penicillate. Achenes minute, ellipsoid, ribbed. Species 50, tropics 
of Asia and Africa. 
Leaves pubescent beneath. 
Base narrowed slightly unequal; bracts distinct . (1) E. sessile 
Base auricled very unequal; bracts connate; big 
plant .. (2) E. platyphyllum 
Leaves lanceolate narrow, very unequal, not auricled; 
nerves yellow hairy. 
Bracts distinct broad . . . . . (3) E, molle 
Leaves glabrous, thin. 
Teeth very coarse and few, tip long cuspidate, base 
acute.(4) E, acuminatum 
Edge shortly crenate, base unequally bilobed . (5) E. inseauilobum 
(1) E. sessile Forst. Char. Gen. 106; Hook. fit. F.B.I. v. 563* 
Glabrous or pubescent, 6 to 12 in. tall; stems simple. Leaves 
sessile or short petioled, oblique oblanceolate caudate coarse serrate 
4 to 8 in. long, 1-5 in. wide. Receptacles 2 solitary (rarely 2 to 3) 
sessile or short peduncled, -25 in. across. Involucral bracts in 
male free broad ovate. Achenes minute. Hob. Rocks in streams, 
abundant, Pahang, Kota Glanggi. Selangor, Kwala Lumpur 
(Curtis); Ginting Simpai; Batu Caves. Perak, Lenggong; Thaiping 
Hills; Goping (Kunstler). Penang, Gardens near the bath. 
Distrib. Asia, Africa, Polynesia. 
(2) E. platyphyllum Wedd. Monog. 301; Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 566. 
A big robust plant over 12 in. tall. Leaves sessile or short- 
petioled, rather thick obliquely oblong-oblanceolate cuspidate or 
caudate acuminate serrulate, base inequilateral auricled, bright 
green, 4 to 6 in. (10 in.) long, 275 in. wide. Male heads often in 
pairs, -3 in. or more across, lobed peduncled or sessile, involucral 
bracts confluent fleshy. Hab. Selangor, Batu Caves. Penang, 
road to Balik Pulau (Curtis). Kelantan, Kwala Aring (Yapp). 
Distrib. India. 
