ALABASTKA rillLIPriXEXSIAj II. 
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Closely allied to Ficus oleaefolia King, from Sumatra, but distinguished by 
its longer peduncles, longor-pedicellato male flowers, and its much more pajiillose 
leaves. 
UETICACEJ^. 
BOEHMERIA .Tacq. 
Boehmeria multiflora sp. nov. 
Arbuseula (?)^ glomernlis spieatis vel rarissime ramos juniores ani- 
plectentibus erectis vel asccndentibus^ dioicis; floribus masculinis 
iguotis; perianthio femineo tubiiloso breviter bidentato arete ovarium 
includente; stigmate longe exsorto; foliis decnssatis^ lanceolato-ovatiSj 
siibcoriaceis^ inaeqiialibiis^ longe petiolatis^ caudatis^ iiiargine serratis. 
Inflorescence consisting of many -flowered densely crowded and almost 
conflnent spiked glomerules, or rarely surrounding young branches^ tbe 
spikes 9-20 cm long, the glomerules wanting at the extreme base of the 
spike, usually 4r-5 mm in diameter; dioecious, only female flowers present, 
these very short-pcdicened, in all 2.5-3 mm long; tlie perianth 1.4-1.7 
mm long, closely inclosing but not adhorout to the ovary, with 2 lobes 
0.2-0.3 mm long at tlie apex, pilose; the pilose ovary narrowed in the 
basal 0.5 mm, there surrounding only the funicle of the oblong or ellip- 
soid 0.6 mm long oviile; stigma 1.5 mm long, exserted, linear, not 
articulated, pilose. 
A brandling plant with a woody stem 2.5 ni high and 2.5 cm in 
diameter, conspicuously 4-groovcd and pomowhat angled, brown-tomentose 
and white-pilose ; the leaves decussate, or on "voung branches alternate, 
those of a pair unequal, the longer having petioles with pubescence like 
the stem and 2.4-2.8 em long, lanceolate-ovate, in all 9-13.5 cm long, 
3.2-3.6 cm wide, at the apex caudate or barely acuminate, sometimes 
falcate, the base rounded, truncate, or most often subcordate, the shorter 
leaves with petioles only 8-11 mm long, similar to the longer ones but 
shorter-pointed, 6.5-7.2 cm long, 2.2-2.8 cm wide, all subcoriaceous, in- 
equilateral or subequilateral, dentate-serrate on the margins except at 
the extreme base, the upper surface pubescent like the stem, not or 
barely scabrid, with abundant cystoliths/the under surface densely brown- 
tomcntose with the veins pilose, 3-nerved at the base, the side nerves 
continuing from over one-lialf to two-thirds the length of the lamina, 
with 12-15 primary veins on each side of the midrib, more conspicuous 
above the middle of the leaf owing to tbeir more abundant pubescence, 
secondary- and tertiary venation with numerous anastomoses, immersed in 
the upper surface, very conspicuously projecting from the under; stipules 
linear-lanceolate, 8-9 mm long, long-pointed, keeled, deciduous. 
Type collected at 3*>ii.i:ui(), rrovince of Benguet, Luzon, by R. S. Williams, 
710. JOS^, Jnne 6, 1904. 
